Disney Won’t “Chase Bucks” By Licensing Star Wars, Marvel & Pixar Content To Netflix, But Is In Talks Over Other Titles
deadline.comDon’t expect to see Andor or Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 on Netflix any time soon. Disney CEO Bob Iger said that it won’t “chase bucks” by licensing its “core brands” to its rival, despite what other studios are doing.
However, Iger said that it is currently in talks with Netflix over other titles. “We’ve actually been licensing content to Netflix and are going to continue to.
We’re actually in discussion with them now about some opportunities, but I wouldn’t expect that we will license our core brands to them.
Those are obviously competitive advantages for us and differentiators. Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars for instance, they are all doing very, very well on our platform and I don’t see why just to basically chase bucks we should do that when they are really really important building blocks to the current and future of our streaming business,” he said on the company’s Q4 investor call.
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