Disney Studios stops theaters from screening Black Panther

https://www.cbr.com/drive-in-show-42-disney-prevents-black-panther/

by supercopter • 6 years ago

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xnyan• 6 years ago

I would assume it’s because the Mulan live action remake is also releasing that weekend. Black panther was extremely popular and they don’t wanna compete with themselves on the critical opening weekend.

and0• 6 years ago

My assumption was that they wanted to cash in on the renewed interest with Disney+.

monocasa• 6 years ago

It's not a first run theater. They don't typically block that segment based on the first run segment.

latortuga• 6 years ago

Mulan is straight to streaming though, so it does compete in terms of eyeballs. If folks are preoccupied with a BP screening they may not have time or want to also watch Mulan in the same weekend.

chadlavi• 6 years ago

Read the room, Disney.

AdmiralAsshat• 6 years ago

When you own everything and everyone, like Disney, you don't have to read the room.

giancarlostoro• 6 years ago

This reminds me of the protests in Reedy Creek in Florida I've heard about. My wife was driving near Downtown Disney (now called Disney Springs) and saw the signs of the protests. They basically held signs saying 'Reedy Creek IS DISNEY' which is basically true as far as anybody is concerned. They're not allowed to have their own police department, but they employ police officers from Orange County. So yeah, if you live in Florida, you'd definitely see how Disney owns more than they probably should.

https://www.wesh.com/article/reedy-creek-firefighters-protes...

beatrobot• 6 years ago

They do, their room is filled with shareholders.

monadic24• 6 years ago

To disney, they are the room.

gamblor9565• 6 years ago

Disney didn't "stop" theaters from screening Black Panther this past/upcoming weekend. Like most Disney films, it's not available for second-run showings.

It's long-standing Disney policy, and has effected films from the Fox film archives as well. (https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/20...)

hundchenkatze• 6 years ago

Maybe so, but they could have made an exception.

hinkley2• 6 years ago

I hate the term, "The Disney Vaults".

Am I right in thinking this policy started under Eisner, or has it been going on longer?

Nobody else locks their old content up like Fort Knox, Disney.

gamblor9565• 6 years ago

Disney has used the "vault" for theatrical showings since 1944, when they reissued Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, though the last film actually re-released in theaters was The Lion King almost a decade ago. (Nowadays, a film is "released" from the vault to a reissue of home media (like Bluray).

Eisner was mostly responsible for changing vault releases to home media sales (like VHS or DVD) instead of theatrical releases.

monadic24• 6 years ago

Can you elucidate the material difference?

gamblor9565• 6 years ago

Theaters require a license to show a movie.

Disney does not generally grant licenses to theaters to show its films second-run (meaning after their initial box-office run) except as part of re-release initiated by Disney. They make extremely limited exceptions to this policy; the Rocky Horror Picture Show is basically the only film in the Disney/Fox vault that they allow to show second-run.

In this case, the theater announced they were going to show Black Panther without actually bothering to get the license ahead of time, and Disney did not make an exception to their policy.

marcosdumay2• 6 years ago

Well, that is stopping theaters from screening the movie.

Ok, they do do that by policy, not by exception. But the title is correct.

colejohnson66• 6 years ago

OP’s point was that while the title is technically correct, it’s a bit clickbaity

gamblor9565• 6 years ago

No, they never stopped the theater from screening the movie.

They simply never gave them permission to do so in the first place.

nonbirithm• 6 years ago

I hadn't actually realized that Chadwick Boseman had passed away until yesterday.

Rest in peace.

Disney Studios stops theaters from screening Black Panther

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