{"id":614,"date":"2022-07-22T03:08:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T03:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.talksomuch.com\/?p=614"},"modified":"2022-07-22T03:08:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T03:08:09","slug":"peacock-and-hbo-max-are-already-losing-some-of-universal-and-warner-bros-biggest-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talksomuch.com\/peacock-and-hbo-max-are-already-losing-some-of-universal-and-warner-bros-biggest-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Peacock And HBO Max Are Already Losing Some Of Universal And Warner Bros.\u2019 Biggest Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Universal is losing the\u00a0Jurassic Park\u00a0<\/em>trilogy to Netflix this month\u00a0NFLX\u00a0+2%<\/span>\u00a0while HBO Max is losing all eight\u00a0Harry Potter\u00a0<\/em>movies (as they gain six\u00a0Batman\u00a0<\/em>movies) at the end of August.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the odd circumstances of studios launching their own individual streaming platforms while at least some of their product is still licensed to other services is you have skewed scenarios like the one playing out on\u00a0Peacock<\/em>. The Comcast\u00a0CMCSA\u00a0+0.2%<\/span>\u00a0streaming site launch two weeks ago and yet, by August 1 it will have lost its only\u00a0Fast & the Furious\u00a0<\/em>movie (Fast & Furious<\/em>), the first three\u00a0Jurassic Park\u00a0<\/em>films (which are going to Netflix) and\u00a0Shrek<\/em>. For that matter,\u00a0Kung Fu Panda\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Kung Fu Panda 2<\/em>, two of DreamWorks Animation\u2019s very best movies, will be arriving on HBO Max next month. And the two Stephen Sommers\u00a0Mummy\u00a0<\/em>movies (the two good ones with Brendan Fraser AND Rachel Weisz) will depart Peacock on August 31 for parts unknown.<\/p>\n

The idea of big movies coming and going from a given streaming site is, well, that\u2019s how it\u2019s done. But it\u2019s a little bemusing for Universal\u2019s big streaming platform to lose almost every trace of its biggest franchises just weeks after debuting. As of August 1, they will have no\u00a0Jurassic\u00a0<\/em>movies, no DreamWorks toons, no\u00a0Fast & Furious\u00a0<\/em>movies and neither\u00a0The Mummy\u00a0<\/em>nor\u00a0The Mummy Returns<\/em>. Sure, they\u2019ll apparently still have episodes of the animated\u00a0The Mummy\u00a0<\/em>episodic that ran on KidsWB for two seasons beginning in 2001, but that\u2019s not exactly a selling point. Even the \u201cAlmighty\u201d franchise will be MIA as A)\u00a0Bruce Almighty\u00a0<\/em>is not on the service and B)\u00a0Evan Almighty\u00a0<\/em>departed on July 15, the day the platform launched for all interested consumers.<\/p>\n

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