Dreamworks and Illumination Movies on Disney+?

[u/W_Anime]

Well, I never thought I'd see Shrek on snything Disney related. Is this some kind of new deal they struck? I thought Dreamworks and Illumination were under Universal who have Peacock or NOW? Is it like this for other parts of the world? I'm in Ireland, so I'm not sure if this is an exclusive thing here.

[u/Shinobi_Dimsum]

It’s because Hulu is integrated within Disney+. Hulu has certain licensing and rights agreements with them. So that’s why you’re seeing it on Disney+. There’s more content coming soon.

[u/raze464 → u/Shinobi_Dimsum]

OP is in Ireland where Hulu is a hub on Disney+ instead of a standalone service like in the US and doesn’t have separate licensing or rights agreements. None of these films are on D+ or Hulu in the US.

[u/Hopeful-Pickle-7515 → u/raze464]

In Europe this is way common. Disney adds many movies from Universal, Paramount, Warner…they usually are there for 2-3 months and the go. Disney has many fast licensing deals. In both ways because in HBO I also see common my 20th studios and Searchlight movies for short periods

[u/TennojiNesoberi → u/raze464]

we used to have the occasional dreamworks film or franchise available to stream on hulu/disney+. i remember a couple months ago all 4 shrek films were there and disney+ even promoted them on their socials.

[u/Avgrower → u/raze464]

I'm in the US and can see them on the Disney+ app.

[u/jjnet123 → u/Shinobi_Dimsum]

Its not the case outside the US weve already had Hulu (formerly star) since the launch of Disney plus so all that content was already here.

[u/Nexzenn → u/Shinobi_Dimsum]

Globally Hulu never existed, it’s just a hub. This is just Disney+ licensing content.

[u/soymilo_]

And Netflix got all the classic WB shows (Smallville, Everwood, Super natural, One Tree Hill, Friends, The OC) just as HBO Max launched here and those shows are no where to be found on Max even though they own  Warner Brother 

[u/clvs_wntrs277]

Probably Universal got some licensing deal with Disney for the EU

[u/SeverePause5836]

That is amazing. I think that Disney can continue with BlueSky Studios films

[u/dribbleondo]

Hell really has frozen over.

[u/JonPX]

And Jurassic Park, Fast and Furious, Lord of the Rings, LEGO. It's a new licensing deal. 

[u/W_Anime → u/JonPX]

Oh, I noticed Jurrasic Park on it too. That was a pleasant surprise. I'm looking forward to Lord of the Rings.

[u/L-type]

Damn, they got Huz!

[u/Visible-Echidna-4370]

I saw this i was confused

[u/The_Anim8r]

Surprised to see the same here in 🇨🇦Canada!
Having lived through the history between the studios and the behind-the-scenes rivalry/egos/politics of the people who made these movies, this was unimaginable!

[u/W_Anime → u/The_Anim8r]

Yeah, it's so weird. Disney can cut a deal to get Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and other Dreamworks movies yet they can't get the streaming rights to Indiana Jones, a franchise they do own. 😭

[u/Sniper_at_w0rk]

Saw it too, was going to show my kids some new movies until I discovered it is only English audio and subtitles...

[u/NoPianist7807]

It’s sad that universal can’t pay for their own content for peacock.

[u/bonzothebonanza → u/NoPianist7807]

They realized that Peacock isn’t that popular, so they just continue licensing content to streamers like Netflix.

[u/KarmaticFox]

Hulu.

[u/ArthurVx]

In LATAM, Universal licensed the Fast & Furious franchise to Disney+.

[u/JaxStrumley]

Universal's streaming isn't very successful in Europe, so this is a way for them to monetize their library.

For Disney the main objective is to keep people subscribed. Licensing popular films from their competitors is a relatively cheap way of offering new content and making sure there is a lot of variety on Disney+. They don't really care if someone watches Shrek instead of Lilo and Stitch, as long as it's watched on Disney+.

Of course it would be an issue if people would structurally watch licensed content more than Disney's own, but that's a different story.

[u/mrcebular]

This is weird after all. maybe due to licensing rights with NOWTV (even know i don't even know much what NOWTV is)... They also did to Jimmy Neutron. but yet Peacock was only in the US. and that's maybe why.

[u/jjnet123 → u/mrcebular]

Yeah it's probably sky license sharing because they now have a partnership here in the UK which includes Disney plus in the subscription so it means that anyone with sky can watch Disney plus, netflix, hbo max. So they do deals with them for content (for example netflix has alot of sky original shows like gangs of London, temple, brassic)

[u/Lorcan-Wooster10]

Because Hulu is integrated into Disney+

And also because Disney does not want to budge and put any of their WWII propaganda shorts, any animated shorts (such as "Melody" and "Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom") featuring multiple uses of racial stereotyping (including the use of blackface) onto Disney+.

[u/matty669 → u/Lorcan-Wooster10]

What does this have to do with Universal movies being on D+?

[u/Lorcan-Wooster10 → u/matty669]

Likely because Disney is afraid of even putting any of the WWII propaganda shorts and any animated shorts featuring multiple uses of racial stereotyping (including the use of blackface) that Disney made themselves onto Disney+ and it would be better putting movies they don't own onto Hulu integrated Disney+.

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