Netflix Won’t Be Getting Future Star Wars and Marvel Films As Disney’s Own Streaming Service Begins in Late 2019!

You may recall that last month Disney announced that it will be launching its own streaming service and ending its deal with Netflix. While people speculated as to what this would mean for the future of films made by studios owned by Disney but not released under the Disney Studios banner, it seems we now have a definitive answer.

 

 

Variety reports that today Bob Iger, Disney CEO, announced that Lucasfilm and Marvel would also follow suit with the Disney branded films and no longer be streamed on Netflix beginning with 2019 releases. Upcoming releases before that date will still be made available on Netflix as they have been, but beginning in 2019 these releases, including all Star Wars films, will move to Disney’s new streaming service for their own films and television shows.

 

 

Also The Wall Street Journal shared more details on Disney’s future streaming service:

 

The service will launch in the U.S. in late 2019 as movies that previously would have been on Netflix become available, Mr. Iger said, though it could launch earlier in other countries.

Disney is just beginning work on the digital service, which will be offered directly to consumers over the internet, and has yet to announce how it will be priced. Mr. Iger said the company will share details on how much it will spend on the service later.

 

 

As we are far out from the release of the service, no details have been given on price structure, available formats, or potential for original content, but we will update you as more news comes out.

 

 

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62 thoughts on “Netflix Won’t Be Getting Future Star Wars and Marvel Films As Disney’s Own Streaming Service Begins in Late 2019!

  • September 7, 2017 at 10:48 pm
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    Hard copies are always best.

  • September 7, 2017 at 10:54 pm
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    I foresee a bantha series.

    • September 7, 2017 at 11:59 pm
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      I sense it, too.

  • September 7, 2017 at 11:16 pm
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    Such a shame… I have no intentions of getting yet another service. Still competition is good I guess. Should force them all to get more and more quality shows. I’ll get Marvel/Disney like I typically have. Buy the Blu-Ray.

  • September 7, 2017 at 11:30 pm
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    Begun, the Content Wars have…

    And, for all of those people who will say “I’ll pirate, then”… you’re foolish to think that you’d be getting content for $9.99 a month, forever. It’s also prematur e to even say that a Netflix sub will be WORTH keeping in five years. Content costs money, especially good content… so why would Disney (or anyone else) go through middle-men like Netflix, when they can keep all of the money for themselves? The writing has been on the wall for YEARS.

    • September 8, 2017 at 5:01 am
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      Except you’re wrong.

      Netflix has already experienced this before. When the service first really took off with Streaming, they had loads more licenses from the larger studios then they do now. The studios didn’t think anyone was watching movies on the internet. Then Netflix started making huge amounts of money. When the licenses came up, the companies started asking for way more money.

      This was when the Netflix attempted to raise their price and got met with blow back.

      What they did instead was let the licenses go and start to develop their own content. Now, people watch Netflix for a different reason than to watch Star Wars or marvel movies. At this point, it’s just a neat bonus to have on the service. But they put out new shows every month, most of which are good.

      So what happened? Studios started selling their license to Netflix and now Amazon again at a more fair rate. The user base of Netflix is gigantic, makes sense for these Studios to have their films viewed and to make money on the license at a more fair rate.

      It’s not greedy to try and start your own streaming service. It’s a risky venture, especially when you don’t offer original content and all you have is your own IPs to draw from.

      So, yeah. Sky isn’t falling.

      • September 8, 2017 at 7:11 pm
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        Not yet.

        But now, instead of seeing just a few players (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon), we’ll see more and more players. CBS is getting ready to make strides in this market, Apple wants in, HBO has their own streaming option…

        This opens competition, and I’m sorry, there is ZERO guarantee that Netflix will survive. True, they have prepared for this… but, I don’t subscribe to Netflix for nebulous “original content.” I subscribe (primarily) for the Marvel shows. Those are now in jeopardy, and if they eventually leave Netflix… I’m gone, too.

        Further, this splintering signals the exact opposite of what you’re talking about… even if Hulu gets a show here, and Netflix keeps a show here, the studios bypassing these outlets for in-house options CLEARLY signals they want all of the profits.

        • September 8, 2017 at 11:51 pm
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          Competition is good for consumers. It lowers prices. You insist they’re going to go up. Netflix was the number one streaming app in revenue in the first Quarter of this year. Their in house studio is years ahead of any competitors who are coming into the market.

          Netflix’s original content, and there’s no need for “quotation marks” around it, as that’s exactly what it is – original content, isn’t nebulous. It’s award winning. And people watch it rabidly. Netflix has been profitable prior to Marvel coming on board. If you leave, many others won’t. Not everyone just wants to watch Marvel movies on Netflix, there’s a diverse base of consumers who use it. This is proven by the wide variety of shows in development and releases.

          This isn’t a splintering. It’s a studio not renewing a license. Yes, everyone wants profits, but it’s a big risk for them to release a streaming service and expect people to pay for it JUST for their content if they’re not producing something unique that can only be acquired through that service.

          I can buy Star Wars and Marvel movies. In the long run, it’s cheaper to do so then to pay any amount per month long term. Disney would need to provide me with a reason to keep an account open and paid with them. That equates to original content. And it has to be more than one show, because all of their competition produces entire line ups of their own original content to keep people from watching one show and then abandoning the service until the next season.

          Cry more about the sky falling if you want. You’re more or less wrong.

  • September 7, 2017 at 11:37 pm
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    Does anyone who reads this site actually stream Star Wars? I certainly don’t. I own multiple copies of each film and I’m not I’m not the only one who does.

    • September 7, 2017 at 11:43 pm
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      Yeah it’s funny… it bothered me at first but I’ve never streamed Star Wars once other than the end of R1. What does bother me is things like Daredevil.

    • September 8, 2017 at 2:08 am
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      That’s the thing. The streaming service is targeted for everyone who DOESN’T read this site, or the general audience. These days, non-Star-Wars-fans don’t even think of buying the SW films on home video, so if they can catch a SW film on a whim while browsing some streaming service, then here comes Disney to fulfill that 🙂

    • September 8, 2017 at 3:45 am
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      I do in one situation: When I am laying down and just want something to doze off to and there’s not a Star Wars film in my xbox. Then I’ll stream Rogue One or Clone Wars. But if I actually just want to watch a specific Star Wars film then no, I’ll go get the blu-ray.

    • September 8, 2017 at 10:29 am
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      Maybe R1 sometimes but yeah, more annoying in principle for future shows. Certainly I could care less if they have the original saga as Lucas made sure I own it like 6 times on every conceivable form of outdated media lol.

    • September 8, 2017 at 10:42 am
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      I stream Rebels – I would not want them as a hard copy.

    • September 8, 2017 at 8:08 pm
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      Star Wars movies are about the only films I still purchase in hardcopy format. Everything else I stream: movies, music, television shows. I like the flexibility that streaming affords and I don’t half mind not having the physical copies to store. That being said, when the rest of the Star Wars catalog ends up streaming, I’ll likely just watch it in that format. I also don’t care about the extras that are offered as incentive for purchasing a DVD or Blu-Ray. I watch special features and such once; twice at the most. And they all end up on YouTube anyway.

    • September 9, 2017 at 6:16 pm
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      Clone Wars. Clone Wars had better stay on Netflix.

  • September 7, 2017 at 11:41 pm
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    And some of us were fearing an oversaturation of Star Wars? Well, of course there will be.

    • September 8, 2017 at 5:04 am
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      We’ve experienced over saturation of your repetitive comments for years now. I’m sure we’ll learn to live with too much Star Wars as we learned to live with too much you.

    • September 8, 2017 at 2:03 am
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      He actually looks amazing there. An exceptional improvement from his first appearance. And yea he looks pissed af.

  • September 8, 2017 at 12:00 am
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    I don’t think anyones going to pay for this…unless there is a live action star wars series exclusive to the service…

    • September 8, 2017 at 12:24 am
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      The amount of content that Disney has is insane. I am sure the next SW cartoon series will be on there as well.

      • September 8, 2017 at 10:27 am
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        My guess is they will stay “on brand” as it were and stay PG-13 and below. You will have your marvel and pirates type films, but the segment of filmgoers they loose by not caitering to the R-rated / mature market is probably not enough to lure Disney out of their comfort zone.

        • September 9, 2017 at 5:46 pm
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          It’s not enough to care.

      • September 8, 2017 at 8:10 pm
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        You’re absolutely right. The catalog of entertainment that Disney has access to incredible.

    • September 8, 2017 at 3:08 am
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      My bet would be that they’re planning on eventually putting all their franchise content on here: all the first-run Marvel series, and Star Wars series, in addition to the huge Disney back catalog. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if they made a Star Wars series (or maybe multiple series) the flagship of the service…

      • September 8, 2017 at 4:52 am
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        I don’t see them bringing mature rated content to their service. Doesn’t fit the Disney name. So Jessica Jones/Like cage etc. Will stay on Netflix, and their watered down garbage will stay on ABC, then go to the Disney streams after.

        • September 8, 2017 at 5:05 am
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          I guess it will depend on what Disney’s ambitions are. Disney owns Marvel studios, so they’re already making the mature content of which you speak. They just don’t market those shows principally as Disney shows.

          For example, they might be aiming to create a streaming service that will ultimately eclipse Netflix as the most popular service. If that’s true, then since Netflix has content ranging from cartoons for little kids to R-rated movies, the Disney service will as well. It’s all about marketing: the service just has to be marketed in the right way to make it clear that it isn’t just a place for Disney content in the traditional sense (e.g. by naming it something other than ‘Disney Online’ or some other similar title).

          • September 9, 2017 at 12:21 am
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            That’s my point, though. IF they brand it as ‘Disney’, i don’t see them adding it. On the other hand, if they don’t brand it as Disney, that would be terrible for marketing.

    • September 8, 2017 at 3:30 am
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      I walled garden of disney content can def. be appealing to a certain segment of the population.

    • September 8, 2017 at 4:53 am
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      You obviously don’t have kids.

      • September 9, 2017 at 5:45 pm
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        or a soul.

        • September 10, 2017 at 3:05 am
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          I offered mine up to the God of awesome.

          It’s why I shine so brightly here.

    • September 8, 2017 at 8:14 pm
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      Sure they are…quite a few people, I’d imagine. It’s Disney. They have the resources and catalog to make this work and to make it quite a compelling service. Disney’s list of properties in absolutely insane. And with both Marvel and Star Wars under their umbrella, I can’t imagine this not being a great service. Will it be expensive? Don’t know…kinda hope not. But yeah…people will pay for it. Plenty of them.

  • September 8, 2017 at 2:37 am
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    This is a real shame. First, Netflix JUST inked a deal to get Star Wars content. I don’t know the details of the arrangement, but on the surface, this looks like a massive renege on Disney’s part. Second, if every studio/network is going to start charging individually to stream their content, the value of all streaming services will become diluted. Consumers won’t feel they’re getting their money’s worth because they’re paying more for the same content, many will get priced out of subscribing to all of them, and they’ll each lose audience share as a result. Very short-sighted and greedy decision for Disney.

    • September 8, 2017 at 3:01 am
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      What, Disney greedy? get outta here…

      • September 8, 2017 at 5:06 am
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        It isn’t greedy to start your own streaming service. It’s expensive and cost prohibitive in a market that is already growing crowded.

        What more, Netflix and Amazon don’t rely solely on studios to produce content. They make their own.

        Learn something before you prattle on about ‘greed’ when it comes to for profit companies who’s sole point is to make money.

    • September 9, 2017 at 5:45 pm
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      It’s not reneging. They probably kept the right to pull their content if they made such a move.

  • September 8, 2017 at 2:52 am
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    How annoying is it that it’s rapidly reaching a point where there are roughly as many streaming services as there used to be tv channels (and even once-basic tv channels now require “upgrades” to watch on most cable providers). eventually every network, every production company, hell, maybe every movie or show will require its own stream at this rate. An all-inclusive package will then cost you a few grand a month. Ridiculous. I’ll stick to just buying my blu rays….until those require a subscription to keep them operable (remember Divx, anyone?).

    • September 8, 2017 at 4:53 am
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      Ala carte TV is the way of the future. Get used to it. Won’t be a few grand, but people are going to pick and choose what they watch.

      I’m subscribed to 4 different streaming services and I dropped cable. Even with having to buy a couple of shows to watch through Amazon, I’m saving almost 2k a year.

      • September 9, 2017 at 10:04 pm
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        You’re right. I crunched the numbers a while back. I’m subscribed to Netflix and Amazon Prime. And with the exception of Star Wars material, I opt for the digital release of things I want to watch rather than the physical copies. That goes for the whole family: kids too. I can still add a service or two and be hundreds of dollars behind what I was paying for a cable service I didn’t much watch.

  • September 8, 2017 at 3:21 am
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    I buy the movies on blu ray so…shrug.

  • September 8, 2017 at 3:28 am
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    Not buying in.

    I’ll go see them in the theater, (maybe multiple times)
    then I’ll download the telesync…
    then I’ll download the HD cams, then early leaks.
    then I’ll buy the Bluray.

    As I do with everything.
    Paying for multiple streaming services though.
    No thank you.

  • September 8, 2017 at 11:19 am
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    This is why I have an ever expanding huge collection of blu ray discs, rather than rely on streaming sites. I mean, if something happens to their servers and the world looses netflix, I’ll still be able to watch star wars from my blu rays.

    • September 8, 2017 at 8:19 pm
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      I mean…that’s nice, but what sort of scenario are you imagining? I’m not picking at you. As I’ve moved toward an increasingly digital media library, I’ve wondered the same thing. I guess I figured it this way: if something happens to Amazon Prime and I loose my access to my digital copy of Avengers which I watch every three years, well…whatever. If something so catastrophic occurs that all digital material is erased and all streaming services are brought down, I probably won’t be fretting over my digital copy of Mean Girls. : )

      • September 9, 2017 at 5:44 pm
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        Something as simple as a server outage means you can’t watch your movies. So physical will always win.

        • September 9, 2017 at 10:00 pm
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          I get that. And it would be annoying if the server is down when I can’t scratch my itch to watch a certain (or any) film or TV show, but the ease, convenience, and flexibility of streaming, in my mind, sort of trumps the clutter of physical copies.

          • September 13, 2017 at 4:50 am
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            Each his own brother.

      • September 12, 2017 at 6:16 pm
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        True, but, I remember Aruba’s server houses burned down some years ago and my dad lost his site server or something like that, for istance. That’s one. Another is that streaming is linked to having an internet connection. Virtually anything can happen there: some problems make the streaming speed slower, internet goes off for I-dunno-which-reason, amd you are practically unable to use your digital streaming services. Not to mention that you need to have a really good internet connection, and that’s something that for example I don’t really have. I live near the italian border in a place where they wouldn’t make fiber internet arrive simply because “it’s on the border”. Seeing films in streaming is worse to me than on blu ray – plus personally I feel that the blu-ray’s quality is higher than that of a streaming film. Streamings rely on computers mostly (yes, there are services on tv aswell, but not that I own. Finally, the cost: Netflix alone is quite expensive, if you take a multi-device service (which you practically will need), and, as this crisis shows, in order to have all your favourite films, you might meed to subscribe to several streaming services, Aka more money. Now, a bluray, at its release date, is about 20$ or €. If it’s an older film that becomes something like 10$€. But, if I stop paying netflix, I won’t have those films anymore, while with the blu ray, I paid it once and nobody can take it away from me unless he steals it. Not to mention that several outstanding films are not available on streaming services, due to their “age” or impopularity. Also, the cases for hard copies are pretty much collectibles: I might be wrong here, but a limited edition steelbook can in some cases cost much more than at release date. I wouldn’t sell my collection under any circumstance, but even now the La La Land steelbook sells at minimum 40-50$€, if I recall correctly. Can you sell a streaming film? No, you can’t. So, there’s really too many pros for phisical copies rather than streaming services. The only reason I have netflix is because with four friends of mine we took a 4-device account and we split up the price, and that this way I can actually follow some tv shows and watch some films that I wouldn’t be able to otherwise (eagerk awaiting Mute and The Irishman, for example). But that’s it.

        • September 12, 2017 at 8:08 pm
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          Well, living on the Italian border with limited Internet access, I can appreciate that your situation is quite different than mine. Circumstances and context will, of course, dictate how we view these things. I live in an urban area with reliable, affordable, and high-quality Internet so access really isn’t an issue with me.

          Netflix is also quite affordable where I’m at. I have no idea what their price structure looks like outside of the United States, but I’m paying under $10 a month for the service. I also subscribe to Amazon Prime. That costs $100 per year and in addition to their streaming service, I’m getting free and quick shipping on a great many items although I recognize that the shipping cost is often rolled into the price of the item. And there are the various TV shows and movies that I purchase the digital rights to on services such as Amazon. And, of course, I’m paying for a solid and fast Internet connection. It can add up. Still, last year my total expenditures for this stuff came to just under $1000. I was paying that much for cable/Internet service every four months before I cut the cord.

          Blu-Rays are nice. No doubt about it. But I’m at the point where I’m likely to buy it only in the rarest of circumstances. I don’t much care about the ability to resell them. I only purchase movies that I really, really like and know that I’m going to rewatch often enough to justify the purchase. Selling a movie usually isn’t worth the effort that’s going to go into the measly $3 I’m likely to get for it anyway.

          Don’t get me wrong. I’m going to continue to use hardcopy media. I have a bunch of stuff that’s not available digitially and I’m not about to repurchase the digital versions of stuff I already own. But my reliance on the hardcopy format continues to decrease.

  • September 8, 2017 at 2:10 pm
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    I saw this coming from miles away. Streaming (and streaming subscriptions) have been the way things have been going for years now. I don’t mind at all. I cut the cable years ago and I subscribe to Netflix and Amazon Prime. Disney has loads and loads of content so there’s a good chance that I’ll end up subscribing to them as well. And it’ll still be cheaper than cable. At the very least, I’ll be paying for content that I want, rather than helping pay for several dozen religious, home shopping, and sports channels.

  • September 8, 2017 at 2:57 pm
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    I just buy the blu-rays. I also bought a microscope incase blu-ray players ever become obsolete and/or the global power grid ever fails. Then i can just look at the code engraved onto the blu-ray disc itself with my microscope and enjoy the movies in the same way that I read the matrix. Ain’t nothin keepin me away from my content.

  • September 8, 2017 at 6:03 pm
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    this is the future(for me the present)…so, no big deal.

  • September 8, 2017 at 6:46 pm
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    As wired put it:

    “A shattering of the television universe into a boundless multiverse of subscription services sounds like an expensive pain in the ass.”

    I can see torrent services booming again in the future.

    • September 8, 2017 at 7:49 pm
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      There will certainly be a period of shattering, and we’re only seeing the beginning. However, competition will eventually weed out some of the players. My guess is that the pendulum will swing back to a consolidated model at some point.

      Again, though… the writing has been on the wall for this for YEARS. The TV/Film industry DOES NOT want to go through what the music industry went through. It takes money to make content, and if people demand ad-free content… this was bound to happen.

      Don’t like it? JUDGE WITH YOUR WALLET. And don’t pirate, because that’s lame.

    • September 9, 2017 at 5:43 pm
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      That’s called “cable”

      • September 9, 2017 at 6:32 pm
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        Maybe in your part of the world. Newsflash: not everyone in the world lives in the USA.

        • September 13, 2017 at 4:50 am
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          OH WOW THANK YOU I DID NOT KNOW THAT!

          • September 13, 2017 at 7:02 am
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            You’re very welcome! Happy to be of service!

  • September 8, 2017 at 8:04 pm
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    Unless you’ve already got kids and need the “siddown and shuddup” Disney content to keep the young ‘uns from murdering each other on road trips, or you’re just of a mind to subscribe to every damned streaming service under the sun, this is fairly shitty news for Star Wars fans. Particularly if new non-movie SW content ends up being bricked up behind the Disney paywall.

    Best of luck to them, though. I’m sure it will make a lot of money for their stockholders.

  • September 9, 2017 at 6:07 pm
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    Time to go back to pirating.

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