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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Doesn’t sound very inspiring to me and it is not a deal which can adequately replace existing deals for new films with the bigger studios, which, like Disney, will continue to find alternative streaming outlets for their films.
Those other films like Paddington and the Hurt Locker have been on the Sky Cinema channels for some time, so no great shakes there either.
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Aside from the Disney pipeline, what are they replacing? Sky still have their deals with Paramount and Universal, have renewed deals with Warner Bros and Sony and renewed a deal with Disney for movies via the 20th Century brand that are not destined for Disney Plus - if anything these deals are additive and will go someway to giving them fresh and fairly high profile content and a boost to the wider catalogue... seems like a fairly adequate replacement to me!
Also Studiocanal (and what was formerly Optimum Releasing) have not had any pay tv window output deals with Sky for the best part of a decade so a significant number of those movies will be on Sky Cinema’s proposition for the first time including the Paddington movies.