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Original Star Wars Movies May Not Launch With Disney's Streaming Service Until 2024 (bloomberg.com)
Disney is reportedly having trouble buying back TV rights to "Star Wars" movies from AT&T's Turner Broadcasting so that it can offer them on a new streaming video service it is working on. Bloomberg reports: Disney made a preliminary inquiry about regaining the rights, but met resistance. Turner has the rights to show the films on its cable networks, which include TNT and TBS, and online until 2024. The programmer would want financial considerations and programming to replace the lost films. Disney sold certain rights to Turner in 2016, before it completed plans for the streaming service.
WHEN can I buy the ORIGINAL theatrical release on Blu-Ray?
Seeing how they've tried to run the franchise into the ground, especially with the Last Jedi, have to say that the longer those rights are kept out of their hands, the better.
I can easily imagine Han not shooting first being made trivial by Disney edits...
Check your premises.
... Disney sold certain rights to Turner in 2016, before it completed plans for the streaming service. ...
In 2016, didn't Disney have any sort of streaming strategy? It certainly appears that they were asleep at the wheel.
I for one am looking forward to having "The Holiday Special" air on TV again.
I want unedited bluerays (e.g. no special edition) with all the clean ups. Those DVD based LD rips are nice, but I want the quality of the special editions w/o the special edition edits and without having to pirate to get it.
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Disney just don't want people watching the original trilogy, because they will see the new ones are total bantha poo in comparison!
Circumcision is child abuse.
If it's the original theatrical release as I saw it as a 6-year-old way back in 1977, then I'm stoked. If it's one of the later re-releases after George Lucas mucked around with the story (Han shot first!) and effects, then Turner Broadcasting can put them on a shelf and leave them there.
But we've already seen them...
It's the not wanting to pirate it that screws you here :)
It's really a stupid situation we're in that the only way for any of us to see good quality versions of movies that very few would debate are cultural icons is to pirate them. Given how popular Star Wars is right now Disney could make bundles of money just by going through the exact same efforts those volunteers who created the HD, non special edition pirate copies did.
Speaking of which, if you haven't watched the non special edition Harmy's release ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) and you're an original trilogy fan you're really missing out. It's gorgeous.
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What do you want me to say? Someone took the originals and turned them into digital. I would happily have paid upwards of $100 for them but they never game. So instead of waiting for something so easy to distribute... I turned to something I can count on.
This is funny. Disney paid how much now? ahaha!
aren't they in the public domain?
Will someone post Vader's 'pray I don't alter the deal further' quote? I'm too lazy to type...
Never getting Disney streaming.
Not too worried, as they have been ruining everything anyway.
Seriously you shat in the bed, clean it up yourself Disney. Stop trying to screw everyone. I hope your $4bn investment burns.
How long will Disney's investors tolerate Disney's ongoing mismanagement? Disney came to the Internet late (like Microsoft did with the web), Disney reportedly paid George Lucas a lot of money for a franchise that has been described as "creatively bankrupt since 1983" (which I'd say is about right), and Disney mistreats the public via policy changes (the last copyright term extension was chiefly a power grab and widely known to have been driven by Disney). Now Disney is letting Turner come to them and ask "What's this renegotiation over rights worth to you?" based on a renegotiation for rights Turner doesn't have to accept at all?
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Orginal (has different crawler than we saw in theaters)
Despecialized (this is the gold standard.)
The "magenta" version with terrible color balance?
The "special" edition with the dinosaurs?
The version where Han shoots first? Or where the odd pasted on gredo hand shoots first? (I think there was another version that looked better after that one too).
etc. etc .
For me, the only one I care about is the despecialized original where han shoots first.
By the way: If you haven't-- you *MUST* see "Obiwan has PTSD". It is an incredible video. If the second trilogy had actually been made second, this is how the scene where Obiwan meets Luke should have been filmed and edited.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Somehow I strongly suspect that the "original" movies referred to in the headline simply means Episodes 4-6, and *not* the "original" versions of the movies as the die-hard fans define them.
There's no way I'm wrong on this. Mark my words.
VOD is at odds with "The Vault". Disney's VOD offering will be shit because they don't "get" it.
People often forget that the make and break performances were Guiness and Hamill's interactions with the robots early on in the movie, Han's suave charm and disregard for other's lives in Mos Eisley, before showing himself to just be a desperate man in a bad situation recognizing the same in those he unwittingly helped in his quest for money, leading to him, without the force, helping to take out the greatest starfighter pilot then in the galaxy (Darth Vader/Anakin Skywalker) when he was too focused on a rookie pilot making his second pass at a failed trench run.
Along with their perfomances were dozens of other actors of various skill levels who added character and professionalism that was considered rare in the pop sci-fi culture of the day, plus special effects that were revolutionary for their era and far cheaper than many alternatives being used at the time. Star Wars helped make ILM/Skywalker Sound, and ILM and Skywalker helped shape the industry for at least 2 decades to come.
Just like with Sierra and its early employees however, its leadership proved to have no staying power and in the end made inept decisions that eventually lead to them choosing a fat cash payout and selling their loyal employees up the river before they took a nice cushy retirement, over becoming a lasting private legacy in the industry.
How can they launch with Disney's streaming service in 2024 if the streaming service is launching in 2019?
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Good grief the franchise is used everywhere until I am sick of seeing SW crap.
That's OK. I have them on VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray and MP4.