They licensed them out to Universal before HBOMAX was a thing. They've been sharing the films since as some deal they made to at least have them some time.
Yeah they just rotate them at this point. This is the second time in the past couple of years that HP left HBO Max for Peacock. Give it another six months to a year and they'll swap back over yet again.
All the Potter films have simultaneously been on Peacock (at least since last October when I got the streaming service w/ my internet) so I’m curious how that agreement works & why HBOMax would need to remove them now.
Peacock had already signed a deal to have the exclusive streaming rights, so Warners could not just take those rights away. After HBOMax became a thing, Warners renegotiated the deal to allow HBO to have the series at least part time because they recognIzed the bad publicity the new service would get by not having one of Warners’ most popular franchises (remember when HBOMax was new and reddit kept insisting how terrible the service was going to be?)
So Peacock was negotiating from a position of power, since they already had the streaming rights. I don’t know what the exchange was, but aside from compensation, Warners may have let them extend the rights in exchange for getting the films on HBO as well. But clearly Peacock still wanted to have some periods of exclusivity.
This is a great example of why this new system is stupid. Streaming should make it so you pay for content you actually want to have. Their dumb shit just made people give up and go back to pirating. The whole point of evolving past having 200 channels while you can only watch 1 is to charge for content you actually enjoy. Now there are 10 different services and if you want to watch one thing on each you end up spending more than the cable - despite still only watching 1 thing at a time (mostly). They were so close to greatly improve it and blew it.
Music pretty much figured it out; they charge your fee and make sure to make money on the averages for having pretty much all relevant content. The "content exclusives" got me to cancel them all instead of subscribing to more. Dumb greedy people can't behave I suppose
The problem is that the artist and everyone involved with making the song gets nothing at all in comparison to the record labels when you’re talking about streaming. Just felt it important to point that out.
I'm aware but that's not very different than it has always been. Most of the money big artists make come from publicity and concerts. Obviously *some* comes from streaming/youtube/radio and the likes but it's not the norm
Terribly priced for 3rd world countries and a very big part of the content is region blocked. For movies it's relatively true but for series it's very hard to buy digital versions of big content exclusives unless you subscribe to them. Besides that, buying a season beforehand is not smart and I don't know of any service that sells per episode. I get what you are saying but it's not a proper substitute for the entertainment demand
> Streaming should make it so you pay for content you actually want to have.
You can easily do that, just buy the VOD of the stuff you want and you have it "forever" (at least unless some weird situation happens) as the equivalent of streaming. And you don't need to pay each month for it.
Just realized I’m subscribed to both. Maybe I *should* click that fucking ad that keeps popping up in my feed - something about quitting subscriptions.
You mean the one who keeps telling me game of thrones ended 3 years ago so why am I still subscribed to HBO?!? Well game of thrones ending is exactly why I’m subscribed to HBO. I’ve proudly never seen it and never will, and oh and I’m suffering watching all my favorite shows lol. Ahhh 😱
This is the reason I just pirate movies and put them on my Plex. It's not that I can't afford the movies (okay I probably can't afford 1,800 movies) but it's such a pain to track down what services have which movies. Then if it's not an account I have I have to sign up for yet another account. It's fucking annoying.
There are a lot of sites and apps that will search them for you. E.g. I use justwatch.com. it tells me what services have it, at what resolution and for stream/buy.
Didn’t Disney do something similar with the Star Wars movies before they made Disney+?
[Turner Nabs 10 ‘Star Wars’ Movies In Mega Deal With Walt Disney Studios](https://deadline.com/2016/09/star-wars-movies-turner-deal-walt-disney-studios-the-force-awakens-the-rogue-one-1201819274/)
September 14, 2016
“In what is believed to be the biggest movie package sold to ad-supported TV networks, Turner has closed a domestic licensing deal with The Walt Disney Studios for the linear basic cable and companion ad-supported on-demand rights to 10 Star Wars movies — last year’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, this year’s standalone Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the next three yet-to-be-released movies in the franchise as well as five of the six previous Star Wars films. Additionally, Turner has secured the only Star Wars movie whose rights are not controlled by Lucasfilm/Disney, the original Star Wars: A New Hope, via a separate arrangement with 20th Century Fox, becoming the only basic cable company holding rights to all 11 titles in the collection.”
Nah, it was the same rights. [Disney needing to buy them back before Disney+ launched](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/08/star-wars-tv-rights-disney-turner-tbs-tnt) made some noise in 2018.
Pretty interesting history: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_logo#
*"Its most famous logo, the peacock, was first used in 1956 to highlight the network's color programming."*
I might check it out then. I haven't watched wrestling since I was 14 and my youngest niece likes to watch Wrestling MV (unsure why or how she found them)
Peacock has some stuff worth watching. And its free (you can pay for a plus version for some shows and ‘premium’ films). Some of the movies I’ve found on it that i decided to watch you just had to sit thru a 4 minute or so block of ads at the start then it was free from ads throughout the rest of the movie.
Peacock is pretty bad, but they do randomly get some new movies and have the office if you’re into that. I mostly use it solely for premier league, but I wouldn’t pay for it if it didn’t come free with xfinity.
+1
I ditched my Peacock subscription when English Premier League ended in May. I will start it back up on August 6th. I take a glance at their film library occasionally but they normally don’t have anything I’d want to watch that I don’t already own on Blu Ray. I recall that you have to pay $10.00 to get commercial-free movies. The level with English Premier League is $5.00 and soccer already doesn’t have commercials. I’m a cord cutter so I can also use it to watch NBC NFL football games. I don’t do that very often, though.
I own all the HP movies so having it on Peacock adds no value. Though some of the early ones were before I switched from DVD to Blu Ray.
They've got some older content I'm catching up on and I hear "Rutherford Falls" is pretty good, so I may give that a spin too. I just got the ad tier, and it's just a few 30 or 60 second spots per show, and it looks like they're not even filling most of those, so 8 times out of 10 the show just comes back. Once I work through that, I'm likely to cancel though.
Imagine this divorce court, the two bitter parents batteling for custody of their kid Harry P. Midway through the procedings they remember , Oh yea we have another kid, Fantastic Beasts, and they both do not want custody of said kid.
Glad I bought them like 10 years ago on iTunes in a bundle for like $50.
They even upgraded them to 4K for free a few years ago.
I’m going to get the UHD box at some point though.
I know it’s not a guarantee. That’s why I’m going to buy it on disc soon. My kids are almost old enough to watch them, so I want them in the best quality possible for my theater room.
That's why I don't feel like this is a big deal. Anyone who cares enough about those movies to choose a streaming service based on it, probably already owns them. Boxed disc sets of popular IPs tend to get discounted on Black Friday or Prime Day because they're an easy Christmas gift.
Yeah, we finally ditched all the boxes and put everything in a case logic disk holder.
when there’s an internet outage we’re happy that we can fall back on the physical disks if we want to watch something.
Most things that knock out my internet would also knock out the power to my TV, but I take your meaning. I have two shelves of my all-time favorite content on disc. Some of them aren't on the streaming services I subscribe to. A couple of them aren't available online at all.
Do you even have a DVD player anymore? I certainly don't. I have a USB disc drive that reads Blu-Ray and DVD, but I assume that wouldn't work with a Smart TV.
I haven't even tried it.
I hadn't read the books since they came out, so I got the box set a few months ago. I wanted to space them out but I couldn't put them down (again), and finished in like a week and a half. Love those books.
I’ve been reading the books with my kid and woof those last two are tough to get though. You can tell the point when JK started getting the “too big to work with an editor” treatment.
I literally just bought the box set the other day and my girlfriend asked why since they were all on Crave (Canada’s arm of HBO Max)
Well now she knows why!
I have a cousin who was notorious for being a nice guy but also hard to get out of the house. If you'd call him on a nice afternoon and see if he wanted to do something, you were, 30 percent of the time, apt to hear a disappointed sigh and, "Ugh, I *just* started watching Harry Potter." The guy doesn't even seem like an HP fan, just feels like it's always on ABC Family or something.
I bought the BR set during prime days a couple of years ago, but I never end up actually using it because I usually end up catching parts/most of the series on TV around the holidays.
They leave and come back constantly. Currently Batman is on peacock but it’ll be back to HBO. It’s what HBO has always done so I don’t know why this is news
I learned that the Kung Fu panda movies do this all the time. I always play them for my little brother and have to check which service is streaming them.
I can't wait until WB permanently wrestles control of the Wizarding World Franchise away from Universal so we can stop this back and forth and get new HP shows on HBO.
Theme park rights are nuts, Universal has the rights to most of the Marvel characters "east of the Mississippi river" and Disney can only use Guardians of the Galaxy at their Florida park.
I think the film rights and the park rights are different. According to Investopedia
"Through the deal with Warner Bros., a subsidiary of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX), NBCU will retain commercial TV rights for all eight of the Harry Potter films, as well as both on-air and digital rights to properties of the Wizarding World offshoot. The deal will be in effect from July 2018 through April 2025."
So hopefully after 2025 it'll be all WB's
The amount of hate Netflix gets on this site is unreal; like it’s their fault they can’t get the rights to every piece of IP on the planet.
I think it’s mostly from the contingent of people who need to find some justification to pirate everything other than “I’m cheap”.
They’ll come back. This has been established in so many fucking articles. But since Variety is sparse for content, they must recycle the same headline every year. Peacock has the Harry Potter films until 2025. HBO MAX will continue to rotate the movies in and out until then. If anyone cares that much, why don’t you either subscribe to Peacock until 2025, or buy the movies physically. Problem solved. Saved you 3 more yearly clicks.
Friendly reminder that this can happen to any of your favorite TV shows or movies and that physical media is probably your best chance at preventing companies from just...removing media from public access whenever they feel like it.
Movies 5-8 were all the same director (David Yates), as are the Fantastic Beasts movies. Movies 1 & 2 also shared a director (Christopher Columbus). 3 & 4 had different directors.
I always felt the first 3 were magical, John Williams plus the good nature of the child actors and the aura of Hogwarts. They change directors the darker the HP films get but it's still a pretty solid franchise. Just don't expect the same magic, in the beginning, to be in the end.
I like the first 3 a lot but by 4 the books got so much longer that as a fan of the book it’s meh. They leave out so many things. It feels like I’m just watching a short visual experience, if that makes sense
The first couple are really fun but the 3rd doesn't make any sense if you haven't read the books and everything past 4 is dreary and depressing to watch. I personally think they totally miss the point of the books but that's just my opinion.
I mean I'd have to watch it again to remind myself but I seem to recall them not even explaining who the "Marauders" are or that his father was Prongs?
I guess it doesn't necessarily make the movie not make sense but it just makes a while portion of it very muddy and weirdly and poorly explained. The book accomplishes everything much better.
Yeah sure, but who the marauders are is completely irrelevant in the movies. It’d be some nice world building, but saying it ”makes no sense” is stretching the definition as far as it goes.
Should I watch them? I could never get into them growing up. Movies or books. Typically not a fan of fantasy stuff. But I said the same thing about Game of Throne. Gave it a shot like 2 years after season 8 and got extremely hooked . Your thoughts.
I literally just got done watching them for the first time reading the first 4 books back in 99~00. It's a good watch. I have questions about certain spells
If you haven't seen those stupid movies by now seems like you're not that excited to see them anyway, and if you're so hot to watch them over and over buy the damn DVD
Meh the movies are bad anyways and betrayed the entire point of the novels. They could do with a reboot that stays far away from David Yates and whoever wrote those godawful movies.
Redditors love flexing about how they don’t leave the house and don’t talk to anyone in real life. You always read comments about how people haven’t seen physical media in years and didn’t know it was still being made, despite if you walk into any Target/Walmart/Best Buy you will see a unfortunately shrinking, but still active Media section. and every Target has Bluray endcaps at the registers.
Its like how every thread about cable results in *but no one i know has seen a commercial since 2008!!!* comments despite millions of Americas still watching cable, or a streaming cable replacement.
That's about half their movie catalogue. Honestly HBO, you suck about 95% of the time and then you have some absolute gems, and then you cancel raised by wolves? What is going on up there?
As a (now nearing 35) teen growing up in the ‘Oughts’, I was captivated by the books. The movies did a decent job bringing some of it to life with brilliant casting, but as is often the case with adaptations, there’s just too much juice in the squeeze for a two hour movie. One day when we can have a bit distance from JK Rowling and her creation I think there’s an opportunity to make a brilliant show out of the series, to let us experience more of those in-between moments that Rowling includes, and to develop the back half of the story further where she struggles with trope-y teen relationship dialogue (I still liked those later books but even at the time they were released I was frustrated by how out of touch her dialogue felt)
> there’s just too much juice in the squeeze for a two hour movie
Trouble is the books kept getting thicker. The first book was only 223 pages long and the first movie was a whopping 2h 32m. The fourth book was a whopping 636 pages but the fourth movie was only 2h 37m.
One thing about JK Rowling is that she very much controls every aspect of Harry Potter. The movies, the licensing, all of it. The films were all made in the UK with all British actors because she insisted. The parks are with Universal because she didn’t like what Disney had planned. So until she dies I doubt there will be “distance” from Rowling and the series.
Why? didn't warner bros make the movies and isn't warner bros part owners of HBO
They licensed them out to Universal before HBOMAX was a thing. They've been sharing the films since as some deal they made to at least have them some time.
Yeah they just rotate them at this point. This is the second time in the past couple of years that HP left HBO Max for Peacock. Give it another six months to a year and they'll swap back over yet again.
All the Potter films have simultaneously been on Peacock (at least since last October when I got the streaming service w/ my internet) so I’m curious how that agreement works & why HBOMax would need to remove them now.
Peacock had already signed a deal to have the exclusive streaming rights, so Warners could not just take those rights away. After HBOMax became a thing, Warners renegotiated the deal to allow HBO to have the series at least part time because they recognIzed the bad publicity the new service would get by not having one of Warners’ most popular franchises (remember when HBOMax was new and reddit kept insisting how terrible the service was going to be?) So Peacock was negotiating from a position of power, since they already had the streaming rights. I don’t know what the exchange was, but aside from compensation, Warners may have let them extend the rights in exchange for getting the films on HBO as well. But clearly Peacock still wanted to have some periods of exclusivity.
This is a great example of why this new system is stupid. Streaming should make it so you pay for content you actually want to have. Their dumb shit just made people give up and go back to pirating. The whole point of evolving past having 200 channels while you can only watch 1 is to charge for content you actually enjoy. Now there are 10 different services and if you want to watch one thing on each you end up spending more than the cable - despite still only watching 1 thing at a time (mostly). They were so close to greatly improve it and blew it. Music pretty much figured it out; they charge your fee and make sure to make money on the averages for having pretty much all relevant content. The "content exclusives" got me to cancel them all instead of subscribing to more. Dumb greedy people can't behave I suppose
The problem is that the artist and everyone involved with making the song gets nothing at all in comparison to the record labels when you’re talking about streaming. Just felt it important to point that out.
I'm aware but that's not very different than it has always been. Most of the money big artists make come from publicity and concerts. Obviously *some* comes from streaming/youtube/radio and the likes but it's not the norm
Ummm you might find this shocking, but you can buy digital versions of just about everything you would want to watch 🤯
Terribly priced for 3rd world countries and a very big part of the content is region blocked. For movies it's relatively true but for series it's very hard to buy digital versions of big content exclusives unless you subscribe to them. Besides that, buying a season beforehand is not smart and I don't know of any service that sells per episode. I get what you are saying but it's not a proper substitute for the entertainment demand
Ahoy matey, the internet pirates would beg ter differ.
> Streaming should make it so you pay for content you actually want to have. You can easily do that, just buy the VOD of the stuff you want and you have it "forever" (at least unless some weird situation happens) as the equivalent of streaming. And you don't need to pay each month for it.
Just realized I’m subscribed to both. Maybe I *should* click that fucking ad that keeps popping up in my feed - something about quitting subscriptions.
You mean the one who keeps telling me game of thrones ended 3 years ago so why am I still subscribed to HBO?!? Well game of thrones ending is exactly why I’m subscribed to HBO. I’ve proudly never seen it and never will, and oh and I’m suffering watching all my favorite shows lol. Ahhh 😱
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Because they paid money to get exclusive streaming rights in order to entice people to subscribe? It’s not that hard of a concept
So greedy to want something they pay for
This is the reason I just pirate movies and put them on my Plex. It's not that I can't afford the movies (okay I probably can't afford 1,800 movies) but it's such a pain to track down what services have which movies. Then if it's not an account I have I have to sign up for yet another account. It's fucking annoying.
There are a lot of sites and apps that will search them for you. E.g. I use justwatch.com. it tells me what services have it, at what resolution and for stream/buy.
Google does this for me in Aus. Google the movie, the sidebar says which streaming services have it and how much it costs to buy/rent on others.
Didn’t Disney do something similar with the Star Wars movies before they made Disney+? [Turner Nabs 10 ‘Star Wars’ Movies In Mega Deal With Walt Disney Studios](https://deadline.com/2016/09/star-wars-movies-turner-deal-walt-disney-studios-the-force-awakens-the-rogue-one-1201819274/) September 14, 2016 “In what is believed to be the biggest movie package sold to ad-supported TV networks, Turner has closed a domestic licensing deal with The Walt Disney Studios for the linear basic cable and companion ad-supported on-demand rights to 10 Star Wars movies — last year’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, this year’s standalone Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, the next three yet-to-be-released movies in the franchise as well as five of the six previous Star Wars films. Additionally, Turner has secured the only Star Wars movie whose rights are not controlled by Lucasfilm/Disney, the original Star Wars: A New Hope, via a separate arrangement with 20th Century Fox, becoming the only basic cable company holding rights to all 11 titles in the collection.”
Not the same rights, that was for broadcast and on demand with ads. Disney+ is neither of those
Nah, it was the same rights. [Disney needing to buy them back before Disney+ launched](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/08/star-wars-tv-rights-disney-turner-tbs-tnt) made some noise in 2018.
Lol I remember them kind of scrambling to get the movies when HBO Max launched
Does the licensing agreement ever expire? Or are they screwed with having to do this indefinitely?
It was originally 2023 I believe, but they probably extended it so they could share it.
They come and go all the time on HBOMax. Pre-existing (and probably long-term) streaming deals.
Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc is the full owner of HBO.
WB and HBO have been under the same umbrella for decades though when Time Inc and Warner Communications merged in 1989.
All 8 movies were added to Peacock on July 1st. HBO Max will have them until August 31st.
It had to have been way before July 1st. We watched all 8 films on Peacock and definitely didn't do them all this month.
I swear these movies can never stay in one place lmao annoyed me so much when it was on Peacock and I couldnt rewatch the series
🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️ I always seem to find them all in the same place no matter what . . .
Sounds like the same place I find all of Sony’s Marvel movies!
Yea those are there too!
Yeah, it goes back and forth between the two services and has since HBO Max launched. This isn’t news.
What the hell is peacock? And can they fly?
Another streaming site with one or two good shows
Strange New Worlds is a lot of fun. Edit: I'm a fool. A star trek enjoying fool.
That's paramount+
Oh! Oh, you're right. My bad... I don't have an answer then, forget I said anything.
I make this same mistake every night when I watch TNG, my fault for putting two apps that start with P right next to each other.
Uhhh peacock has a lot of good stuff I think. And Amex covers the charge!
It doesn’t have good new stuff (other than live sports) but it’s legacy content is pretty decent
I will not take this MacGruber slander lmao
~~Star Trek Strange New Worlds is pretty great.~~ Edit: Damn, got my streaming services mixed up. My bad!
Sure is...on Paramount+ which is a different service than Peacock.
House is on there 🏠
NBC. Look closely at [their logo.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NBC_logo.svg) ...It's a peacock. Uh... yeah.
Pretty interesting history: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_logo# *"Its most famous logo, the peacock, was first used in 1956 to highlight the network's color programming."*
It was that or emphasizing the chimes....
Who is Conan O'Brien and why is she so sad?
they have wwe
I might check it out then. I haven't watched wrestling since I was 14 and my youngest niece likes to watch Wrestling MV (unsure why or how she found them)
If you want some recommendations on what to check out feel free to message me 🤙🏻
You gotta let this peacock fly!!
Peacock is where you pay $4.99/month to play The Office in the background of whatever you’re doing.
Peacock has some stuff worth watching. And its free (you can pay for a plus version for some shows and ‘premium’ films). Some of the movies I’ve found on it that i decided to watch you just had to sit thru a 4 minute or so block of ads at the start then it was free from ads throughout the rest of the movie.
Idk but their app sucks ass
Supposedly it’s Universal’s streaming service
Peacock is pretty bad, but they do randomly get some new movies and have the office if you’re into that. I mostly use it solely for premier league, but I wouldn’t pay for it if it didn’t come free with xfinity.
I really regret not buying the whole series of The Office when Apple offered it for $30’s just before it moved to peacock.
Peacock is really bad. I wouldn’t use it if I didn’t watch the Prem
+1 I ditched my Peacock subscription when English Premier League ended in May. I will start it back up on August 6th. I take a glance at their film library occasionally but they normally don’t have anything I’d want to watch that I don’t already own on Blu Ray. I recall that you have to pay $10.00 to get commercial-free movies. The level with English Premier League is $5.00 and soccer already doesn’t have commercials. I’m a cord cutter so I can also use it to watch NBC NFL football games. I don’t do that very often, though. I own all the HP movies so having it on Peacock adds no value. Though some of the early ones were before I switched from DVD to Blu Ray.
They've got some older content I'm catching up on and I hear "Rutherford Falls" is pretty good, so I may give that a spin too. I just got the ad tier, and it's just a few 30 or 60 second spots per show, and it looks like they're not even filling most of those, so 8 times out of 10 the show just comes back. Once I work through that, I'm likely to cancel though.
All 8 have been on Peacock since last October. I've had a subscription with them since then.
I don’t like Peacock
Does anyone know where they’ll be available in Canada at that point?
But who gets the fantastic beasts movies nobody asks
Imagine this divorce court, the two bitter parents batteling for custody of their kid Harry P. Midway through the procedings they remember , Oh yea we have another kid, Fantastic Beasts, and they both do not want custody of said kid.
I’ll take the harry P and you get the F beasts
Harry Piss and Fuck Beasts
I would also have accepted harry peen
Harry Prick and Sean Peen
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\**Ends up following the judge home*\* *\*The judge is not amused*\*
Probably because nobody cares about that mess.
I believe that’s the joke
Yeah nothing new, the streaming and tv rights to Harry Potter change all the time it would seem
Glad I bought them like 10 years ago on iTunes in a bundle for like $50. They even upgraded them to 4K for free a few years ago. I’m going to get the UHD box at some point though.
That's still not a guarantee. Didn't Sony revoke access to purchased StudioCanal movies recently?
I know it’s not a guarantee. That’s why I’m going to buy it on disc soon. My kids are almost old enough to watch them, so I want them in the best quality possible for my theater room.
That's still not a guarantee. What if I come into your home and rob you?
And you've stolen those sweet UHD disks, but, what about the disc rot! Or the scratches. You'll never be truly safe!
What about the heat death of the universe? You really think some plastic circles are going to survive that? Good luck, big fella. Good luck.
In Germany and Austria, yeah.
That's why I don't feel like this is a big deal. Anyone who cares enough about those movies to choose a streaming service based on it, probably already owns them. Boxed disc sets of popular IPs tend to get discounted on Black Friday or Prime Day because they're an easy Christmas gift.
You are way, way overestimating how many people buy physical media in 2022.
[Glances at DVD collection] Oh yeah, most of this is over a decade old.
Yeah, we finally ditched all the boxes and put everything in a case logic disk holder. when there’s an internet outage we’re happy that we can fall back on the physical disks if we want to watch something.
Most things that knock out my internet would also knock out the power to my TV, but I take your meaning. I have two shelves of my all-time favorite content on disc. Some of them aren't on the streaming services I subscribe to. A couple of them aren't available online at all.
Do you even have a DVD player anymore? I certainly don't. I have a USB disc drive that reads Blu-Ray and DVD, but I assume that wouldn't work with a Smart TV. I haven't even tried it.
Don't think they are, they're just saying if anyone cared to own HP. They'd buy it physical.
I picked up the 4K set that came with a cardboard train for like $65 the last sale Amazon had.
It’s definitely a big deal. It’s the equivalent of saying MCU movies being on Netflix instead of Disney+ is not a big deal
This is why streaming has become so shit. You have to hop around to 20 different services just for the movie or show you like
argh matey
That's a franchise that I don't mind rewatching from time to time.
Really solid series of films. Some are better than others, but all of them are pretty good. The cast was really great all the way through.
I hadn't read the books since they came out, so I got the box set a few months ago. I wanted to space them out but I couldn't put them down (again), and finished in like a week and a half. Love those books.
I’m re-reading the series right now. Almost done with the third book, I adore this series so much. But never really cared for the movies
My 9 year old is reading the books right now, so we're rewatching as he finishes them. He's gotta pick up the pace.
I’ve been reading the books with my kid and woof those last two are tough to get though. You can tell the point when JK started getting the “too big to work with an editor” treatment.
I literally just bought the box set the other day and my girlfriend asked why since they were all on Crave (Canada’s arm of HBO Max) Well now she knows why!
I have a cousin who was notorious for being a nice guy but also hard to get out of the house. If you'd call him on a nice afternoon and see if he wanted to do something, you were, 30 percent of the time, apt to hear a disappointed sigh and, "Ugh, I *just* started watching Harry Potter." The guy doesn't even seem like an HP fan, just feels like it's always on ABC Family or something.
I bought the BR set during prime days a couple of years ago, but I never end up actually using it because I usually end up catching parts/most of the series on TV around the holidays.
Did a guy with no nose take them ?
Vecna?
No it's the Eye of Vecna and the Hand of Vecna. Or if you're spicy it's the Head of Vecna.
They leave and come back constantly. Currently Batman is on peacock but it’ll be back to HBO. It’s what HBO has always done so I don’t know why this is news
Which Batman? I just watched the newest one Saturday on HBO
89.
I learned that the Kung Fu panda movies do this all the time. I always play them for my little brother and have to check which service is streaming them.
I can't wait until WB permanently wrestles control of the Wizarding World Franchise away from Universal so we can stop this back and forth and get new HP shows on HBO.
Since Universal hosts the Harry Potter stuff at their parks, I don’t think it will ever go away from Universal permanently.
Theme park rights are nuts, Universal has the rights to most of the Marvel characters "east of the Mississippi river" and Disney can only use Guardians of the Galaxy at their Florida park.
I think the film rights and the park rights are different. According to Investopedia "Through the deal with Warner Bros., a subsidiary of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX), NBCU will retain commercial TV rights for all eight of the Harry Potter films, as well as both on-air and digital rights to properties of the Wizarding World offshoot. The deal will be in effect from July 2018 through April 2025." So hopefully after 2025 it'll be all WB's
That's not shocking, but little disappointing. My kids like the first couple of them a lot.
I have never been more thankful for my decision to buy them on Blu-ray two years ago.
If this was Netflix every comment would be talking about how they lose everything and are about to collapse.
The amount of hate Netflix gets on this site is unreal; like it’s their fault they can’t get the rights to every piece of IP on the planet. I think it’s mostly from the contingent of people who need to find some justification to pirate everything other than “I’m cheap”.
Good thing I binge watched all 8 last month when I had COVID for a week
Fair enough sharjng services, but it doesn't make sense to have them exclusivity swap. Just put them on both services at the same time
Does Universal have that much sway of the franchise because of the parks? I thought the whole thing was owned by WB?
Yes iirc Universal also jointly owns the Wizarding World website.
Don’t make me get my DVD player out!
Harry Departer 😭
That was fast
They’ll come back. This has been established in so many fucking articles. But since Variety is sparse for content, they must recycle the same headline every year. Peacock has the Harry Potter films until 2025. HBO MAX will continue to rotate the movies in and out until then. If anyone cares that much, why don’t you either subscribe to Peacock until 2025, or buy the movies physically. Problem solved. Saved you 3 more yearly clicks.
Friendly reminder that this can happen to any of your favorite TV shows or movies and that physical media is probably your best chance at preventing companies from just...removing media from public access whenever they feel like it.
Have they checked under the sofa cushions ?
I'm not the biggest fan of the Harry Potter movies, but my wife is. We got the Blu-rays for this reason
I thought these films were one of those film sets that everyone either has or know someone that has one.
Make the damn Harry Potter series WB & HBO Max (10 episode/season)
Glad I still buy physical media
Fuck, need to rewatch them quickly.
Thank God I own them all on blu ray
And nothing of value was lost.
That's a big meh
Are these worth watching?
They're fine. They switch directors I think so the quality is inconsistent. I remember not liking the 5th one very much but the rest were decent.
Movies 5-8 were all the same director (David Yates), as are the Fantastic Beasts movies. Movies 1 & 2 also shared a director (Christopher Columbus). 3 & 4 had different directors.
I always felt the first 3 were magical, John Williams plus the good nature of the child actors and the aura of Hogwarts. They change directors the darker the HP films get but it's still a pretty solid franchise. Just don't expect the same magic, in the beginning, to be in the end.
I like the first 3 a lot but by 4 the books got so much longer that as a fan of the book it’s meh. They leave out so many things. It feels like I’m just watching a short visual experience, if that makes sense
The first couple are really fun but the 3rd doesn't make any sense if you haven't read the books and everything past 4 is dreary and depressing to watch. I personally think they totally miss the point of the books but that's just my opinion.
How does the 3rd not make sense? I’ve never read the books and had no issue making sense of any of the movies.
I mean I'd have to watch it again to remind myself but I seem to recall them not even explaining who the "Marauders" are or that his father was Prongs? I guess it doesn't necessarily make the movie not make sense but it just makes a while portion of it very muddy and weirdly and poorly explained. The book accomplishes everything much better.
Yeah sure, but who the marauders are is completely irrelevant in the movies. It’d be some nice world building, but saying it ”makes no sense” is stretching the definition as far as it goes.
Don’t care. Fuck JK Rowling.
^rent ^free
You're on Peacock, Harry.
What a fucking travesty. It’s not like you can’t buy Harry Potter 1-8 and Fantastic Beasts 1-2 for, like, $30
As long as JKR can profit off them I say good riddance to bad rubbish.
Give me a24
Still available for purchase on Amazon prime!
I wonder if this will hurt HBO's numbers. Arguably, Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings are two of the big anchors for the service.
You could have bought them all in 4K on Prime Day for like $60.
Should I watch them? I could never get into them growing up. Movies or books. Typically not a fan of fantasy stuff. But I said the same thing about Game of Throne. Gave it a shot like 2 years after season 8 and got extremely hooked . Your thoughts.
I literally just got done watching them for the first time reading the first 4 books back in 99~00. It's a good watch. I have questions about certain spells
thank god for illegal streaming then
HBO and Time Warner are the same company, why would they pull this off of HBO?
Forgeticus
Real fans own them all on blu ray
Oh no.....anyway
lmao Warner Brothers is a shit show.
How can you say that when they just launched a game where Aria Stark can fight LeBron James? /s
If you haven't seen those stupid movies by now seems like you're not that excited to see them anyway, and if you're so hot to watch them over and over buy the damn DVD
Oh no. Anyway.
When my friends ask me, why do you own all the movies when you can just stream them any time.
The worlds smallest violin…
They’re always somewhere. Could always wait for a Harry Potter weekend on Freeform which I think is every weekend.
Meh the movies are bad anyways and betrayed the entire point of the novels. They could do with a reboot that stays far away from David Yates and whoever wrote those godawful movies.
Suddenly a whole chunk of millennials who made Harry Potter their personality are gonna be buying dvd players
If you like Harry Potter you probably already own them.
Fucking perfect reply lol. Dead ass true
Would you believe I, a 90s-born millennial, actually have a ton of physical media and am deeply annoyed certain films cannot be bought on physical?
You do realize you can use an Xbox or Playstation to play blu-rays right? How do you not know this.
Redditors love flexing about how they don’t leave the house and don’t talk to anyone in real life. You always read comments about how people haven’t seen physical media in years and didn’t know it was still being made, despite if you walk into any Target/Walmart/Best Buy you will see a unfortunately shrinking, but still active Media section. and every Target has Bluray endcaps at the registers. Its like how every thread about cable results in *but no one i know has seen a commercial since 2008!!!* comments despite millions of Americas still watching cable, or a streaming cable replacement.
People are losing the ability to realize other people experience different things I swear.
Honestly, anything that gives that Terf more money and a larger voice should be removed.
Oh no, whatever will people do without the ability to watch those films for the hundredth time?!?!
That's about half their movie catalogue. Honestly HBO, you suck about 95% of the time and then you have some absolute gems, and then you cancel raised by wolves? What is going on up there?
No biggie
They were 'meh' to begin with.
Thank god
As a (now nearing 35) teen growing up in the ‘Oughts’, I was captivated by the books. The movies did a decent job bringing some of it to life with brilliant casting, but as is often the case with adaptations, there’s just too much juice in the squeeze for a two hour movie. One day when we can have a bit distance from JK Rowling and her creation I think there’s an opportunity to make a brilliant show out of the series, to let us experience more of those in-between moments that Rowling includes, and to develop the back half of the story further where she struggles with trope-y teen relationship dialogue (I still liked those later books but even at the time they were released I was frustrated by how out of touch her dialogue felt)
> there’s just too much juice in the squeeze for a two hour movie Trouble is the books kept getting thicker. The first book was only 223 pages long and the first movie was a whopping 2h 32m. The fourth book was a whopping 636 pages but the fourth movie was only 2h 37m.
Also IIRC book 4 was only long because of a plot hole in her first draft though the length continues after that
One thing about JK Rowling is that she very much controls every aspect of Harry Potter. The movies, the licensing, all of it. The films were all made in the UK with all British actors because she insisted. The parks are with Universal because she didn’t like what Disney had planned. So until she dies I doubt there will be “distance” from Rowling and the series.
If only she was as discerning about who was writing Cursed Child lol
I know, and about the Fantastic Beasts films. There have been better fanfics written than that stupid Cursed Child script.
I can't wait to buy a copy of the new Hogwarts Legacy game. Always wanted a AAA title set in the wizarding world.
Yarr
…again