No, not movies switching networks, but about networks signing with studios.
It is always public or certainly media interest when any company spends millions of $$$ investing in something, is it not? Many members of the community love the business sections of the newspaper.
There were plenty of articles on this very thing back in 2013-2015 from such mastheads as The Australian and AFR such as on Seven restructuring Disney and picking up Warner Bros including TBBT, Nine forgoing Warner Bros, etc. Obviously with the focus on the fiscal and business aspect.
I knew what you meant. Apologies if I phrased it wrong.
I’d be surprised if movies were worth millions anymore to TV networks, given most networks use them as fillers or multichannel rejects. Probably why we’ve seen so many distributors switch networks recently. I doubt there’s been bidding wars.
The supply of TV content to TV networks is understandable, plus it comes at a time when linear TV is under threat. Nine losing/renewing its MGM licence probably doesn’t fall into that category.
Anyone know if this movie has aired on Seven before?
I’m guessing it has, I know they struck a deal with Paramount about a decade ago for a string of movies (around the time they got “Indiana Jones”) but then gradually lost it to Nine, both still sharing with 10 who’ve had it for decades.
This movie has been on Nine in recent years, formerly on 10 in at least the 2000s.
Yeah, Entertainment One appears to have had the cinema distribution rights to Divergent in Australia, with 20th Century Fox distributing it on DVD and Blu-ray.
Disney’s 1973 animated movie Robin Hood aired on 9GO! this evening. It has not been shown on TV for a while. I think it is one of the titles from the famous Disney vault.
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