"Disney Is Quietly Placing Classic Fox Movies Into Its Vault, and That’s Worrying"

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I am still upset that copyright goes on for so long. All those people so concerned about billionaires? The extension of copyright beyond one generation is so much more harmful to society than a few people having lots of money.
 
It lools bad for the theaters, but I can live wothout the movies.
 
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This article does not make me feel good.
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Than detach from useless worldly desires and pray more, friend. Movies come and go. Corporations rise and fall, but the Kingdom of God is eternal and His mother is everloving.
 
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I thought this had to do with Disney films that featured foxes. The Fox and the Hound, Robin Hood, Zootopia. 🤓
 
I also thought it was going to be about “The Fox and the Hound.” It was originally based on a novel, but I want to say Disney bought the publishing rights to it, so that from then on, the only way you could read The Fox and the Hound was to read the Disney version of the novel, not the Mannix version, unless you could get ahold of the original 1967 edition.

A glimpse at one major online bookseller has it for sale from around $180-$450, although someone has made a Kindle version available for $7 that I strongly suspect didn’t get authorized by the Disney attorneys… 😉

But yeah. I’d completely forgotten Disney had bought 20th Century Fox for over $70B.
In fact, in reporting this story, I found that Disney’s new policy is beingapplied differently from place to place. Several theater managers and film programmers (all of whom requested anonymity for fear of creating bad blood with Disney) said their requests to show older Fox titles had been either preemptively denied or revoked after the fact, despite fitting the description of a venue that should be allowed to do so. Sometimes no rationale was offered; other times, they were given a reason, but it didn’t jibe with what was happening at other venues. In August, Rachel Fox, the senior programmer for the Rio Theater near Vancouver, tried to book the original Alien to play alongside the upcoming Alien making-of documentary, Memory: The Origins of Alien . Disney told her that the title was unavailable, even though Alien has had one-off screenings in theaters all over North America throughout 2019, the movie’s 40th anniversary year, and is being shown via satellite in hundreds of theaters by Fathom Events this month.
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But why, exactly, is Disney doing this?

The most commonly floated theory is that the company is trying to give consumers one more reason to subscribe to its new streaming service, Disney+. …

A more convincing theory is that this is just how Disney does business. We’re now 11 years into the imperial phase of Disney’s expansion, which saw the company buy Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm (owners of Star Wars and Indiana Jones ) and become the dominant player in theatrical exhibition. Last year, Disney claimed 40 percent of North American ticket sales (a number expected to jump to 50 percent once the Fox merger begins to deliver). It is able to demand and receive percentages of ticket sales far beyond those of its rivals, plus entire screens dedicated not just to near-surefire hits from Marvel, Pixar, Lucasfilm, and Disney’s animation department, but iffier prospects like the live-action remakes of Pete’s Dragon and Dumbo , A Wrinkle in Time , and nature documentaries like Monkey Kingdom .
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