Netflix losing Hunger Games and even more big movies as Epix deal expires

[whitewolf8214]

Netflix losing Hunger Games and even more big movies as Epix deal expires...But Adam Sandler is coming! http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/30/9228627/netflix-epix-adam-sandler

Netflix has decided not to renew its agreement with Epix, meaning that movies like The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, World War Z, and Transformers: Age of Extinction (well, who really cares about that one) will be gone by the end of September. Studio licensing practices are hard, Netflix says, but it will all be okay! Why? Because the company is "hard at work" on making the studios irrelevant by bringing you original films from Adam Sandler. Netflix would also like to remind you it has a new show about Pablo Escobar, called Narcos. Yes, everything is fine.The shifting sands of Netflix's streaming library are tough to measure in any given month, but recently it seems like its catalog has been on a steady march toward resembling the bargain DVD bin at WalMart. The company usually announces which titles will be added and lost each month, but this month came with an admission that customers are complaining. "We hear from our members that you wish we had newer movies," writes chief content officer Ted Sarandos. "So do we."Fortunately, a victory won back in 2012 is about to kick in for Netflix, and probably right on time. Netflix would also like to remind everyone that its juicy exclusivity deal with Disney begins in 2016, which means that movies from Pixar, Lucasfilm, and Marvel will reach the service faster than usual. That could be the shot in the arm Netflix's increasingly stale library needs to keep customers happy, but until then, we'll have Ridiculous Six and A Very Murray Christmas.

 

[jegrant]

The Epix package of movies that is leaving Netflix is going to Hulu: http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...year-hulu-deal-ends-netflix-agreement-n418761 - I assume you will probably need to subscribe to Hulu, for most or all of the Epix content, but at least it ended up somewhere that people can still get it, if they want it.

 

[Juan]

deals come and deals go with netflix

 

[ohioankev]

Epix is also a part of amazon prime instant video. That is of course if nothing has changed with that agreement. I wonder with it going to hulu if it will be an addon service like showtime...

 

[Bruce]

I agree with the decision, why have some catalog that everyone else has when soon they will have all to themselves the entire Disney catalog, all Disney new and old ( including Disney classic stuff like Bambi or Lion King for example), all Pixar new and old, all the Marvel stuff new and old ( 3 new Marvel Films a year now starting next year), all the Lucasfilms stuff new and old ( including little films like Star Wars and Indiana Jones), etc, etc, all to themselves for 5 years at least and Netflix holds the option to extend the deal past the first five years.

Now they paid a pretty penny for the deal but it will be well worth it since they have Pay 1 showing on Netflix for Disney films ( 3 months after Pay per view) that no one else will have.

They also have all Disney/ABC produced TV shows for the next five years plus they added all CBS produced TV shows and FOX produced shows.