Current Events > hell yeah Disney is putting Fox movies in their vault and killing indie theaters

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had to remake the thread bc a mod didn't like how i antagonized people who deserve to be antagonized. anyway. here's three paragraphs pulled from the piece with a tl;dr at the end.

https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/disney-is-quietly-placing-classic-fox-movies-into-its-vault.html

Fox classics are going into the vault as well, for reasons the company wont publicly explain or justify. And Disneys vaultification of Fox titles is bad news for movie theaters that depend on repertory screenings to shore up their increasingly shaky bottom lines. The decision to broaden Disneys artificial scarcity tactic to include thousands of movies released by a onetime rival is a wounding blow to a swath of theatrical venues that used to be able to show them, and where film buffs were able to see them with an audience.

In the preceding few months, Neff had heard rumblings in his Google group of film programmers that Disney was about to start treating older Fox titles as they do older Disney titles making them mostly unavailable to for-profit theaters. More and more film programmers and theater managers were reporting that they had suddenly and cryptically been told by their studio contacts that Foxs back catalogue was no longer available to show. Some got calls informing them that an existing booking had been revoked.

More than one exhibition professional contacted for this article speculated that Disneys overall goal is to claim as many screens at a theater as possible for its newer titles, even if some of them are packing the house but others are selling just a handful of tickets per show. A former theater manager for a major chain, who asked not to be identified in this piece, says, It seems short-sighted, you know? But they do it, I think, just to keep a Sony title out, to keep a Universal title out. The Fox freeze out, he speculates, may be an extension of that tactic: Disney considers any screen thats taken up by an older movie, even one thats owned by Disney, to be a screen that could be showing the new Marvel or Star Wars title instead. Or showing Orangutans 4 to an audience of three.

tl;dr - only non-profit theaters, museums, and specially approved anniversary screenings will be allowed for fox titles. if you are a for-profit theater that shows first-run titles of any kind (most indie theaters), you will not be permitted to screen them. presumably because disney wants you to subscribe to their streaming services. blech!
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Disney can stick it.
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Evil rat
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The vault is a moronic concept in the age of digital streaming.
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Did the other topic get deleted?

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Kitt posted...

Did the other topic get deleted?

ya
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obviously the mod was a huge disney stan
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@PatrickMahomes

https://twitter.com/thejoshl/status/1187061965727948802

here's that twitter thread again btw from a programmer who i think was part of this piece
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show, appears to be the one title Disney isnt cracking down on

Well at least Disney isn't entirely evil.
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Zithers posted...

Kitt posted...

Did the other topic get deleted?

ya

WTF. Why? What rule could that have possibly violated?
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lol
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Disney can go f*** itself
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BeyondWalls posted...

Zithers posted...

Kitt posted...

Did the other topic get deleted?

ya

WTF. Why? What rule could that have possibly violated?

the poll options previously had parantheticals where i called people bootlickers, fanboys, and accused them of not liking movies. clearly this is trolling!
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How are we going to watch Buzzard now?

Uglybass69 posted...

How are we going to watch Buzzard now?

thankfully buzzard is owned by oscillascope, not disney, and can be wherever they want it to be (amazon prime atm)! everyone here should watch it!!!!
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At what point do we finally decide to break Disney up?
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I'm glad I got to see Alien for a third time before it goes into the Disney Vault. Aliens is scheduled to show at a local theater in February. Considering it's a classics only / preservation style theater, I'm hoping Disney will honor the deal and let them show it.

bump
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I stopped giving Hollywood my money after The Last Jedi, so whatevs.
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I don't go to indie theaters to see that sort of film, so...
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vigorm0rtis posted...

I don't go to indie theaters to see that sort of film, so...

congrats
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If Zithers opposes it, must be a good thing
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I don't get the point of this sort of thing.
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fuck Disney

__aCEr__ posted...

The Rocky Horror Picture Show, appears to be the one title Disney isnt cracking down on

Well at least Disney isn't entirely evil.

yeah, that'd cause a huge backlash

In 2013, liberals were praising Disney for putting an openly gay man as CEO, as if that's some valid reason to celebrate a corporation.

Fast forward to 2018/2019, and suddenly they have a change of heart because of Disney appearing as a monopoly (to which they've always been, but for some reason they weren't able to see this? lol)

If they're going to create artificial scarcity then yo ho fucking ho matey
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

At what point do we finally decide to break Disney up?

I don't have much faith in our government as it is now to break up any monopolies. Those corporations are too deep in Washington's pockets.
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fathom events confirmed alien will be the last fox movie they screen lol

yay disney!
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jesus christ
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we got a petition going yay

https://www.change.org/p/distributors-ask-disney-to-release-older-titles-for-repertory-usage?use_react=false

also there was a theater in the bay area doing a planet of the apes festival this weekend and it has been canceled since they are fox titles lol

so sign the petition everyone!
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