Warner holds on to Studio Ghibli movies, thanks to multiyear Max streaming deal

Warner holds on to Studio Ghibli movies, thanks to multiyear Max streaming deal

Polygon·2024-03-13 12:01

Here’s a minor win for fans of Good Things who also subscribe to Max: the Studio Ghibli collection will remain on streaming for the foreseeable future.

Over the last year, media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery has become the emblem of cutthroat restructuring in an already tumultuous entertainment landscape. Under CEO David Zaslav, the company has buried Warner Bros. movies like Batgirl and Coyote vs. Acme for tax purposes, licensed classic HBO content to Netflix, partnered with Disney and Fox to create a sports streaming service, gutted (then reconsidered) Turner Classic Movies, delisted indie games on Steam as it openly pivots its gaming division to a free-to-play strategy, and put all its chips on James Gunn to save the DC movie and TV properties. The decisions ruffled artists’ feathers and sent a fog over the brand’s many studios, the future left frustratingly unclear.

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