The Disney+ menu for Star Wars.Screenshot: Lucasfilm
Disney simply made a brand new TV deal for all 12 Star Wars motion pictures that can enable them to play not simply on Disney+, however its personal suite of broadcast and cable channels in addition to these owned by Turner Broadcasting.
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Turner purchased the rights to 10 of the movies from Disney in 2016 for $250 million, along with a separate deal for A New Hope by way of Fox. That deal was then amended in 2019 with the debut of Disney+ however not too long ago expired on the finish of September. Now, beneath this new deal, each movie is included (the 11 live-action ones in addition to The Clone Wars) they usually can air on Disney networks like ABC, FX and Freeform, in addition to TNT, TBS, and so forth. It begins this weekend with the unique Star Wars Trilogy (particular editions, we’re certain) airing on FX Saturday, October 7.
You may learn extra of the admittedly complicated particulars over on Deadline. However what does this imply for a daily individual? Nicely, when you’re a Star Wars fan, most likely not a lot. Actually, you might already personal them on some kind of bodily media and have a Disney+ subscription when you ever need to verify them out. The massive distinction actually is that there are merely extra locations you might encounter them whereas flipping by way of the channels… when you even pay for cable anymore. Plus, it’s a must to think about it provides Disney extra choices of name-brand content material it will possibly air to fill gaps which may begin to come up as a result of ongoing actors’ strike. Identify-brand content material it already owned and had already been licensing, after all, however now can profit from in additional methods. What a rip-off the media is, proper?
And sure, all of the movies will stay on Disney+ together with the brand new TV exhibits.
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