News: Thousands of movies to disappear from Netflix

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Once Film-Focused, Netflix Transitions to TV Shows

Belying the “flix” in its name, Netflix is now primarily an Internet streaming service for television shows, not feature films.

TV series now account for more than half of all Netflix viewing. That helps to explain why this Wednesday — the long-awaited moment when motion picture classics like “Scarface” and newer hits like “Toy Story 3” will vanish from the streaming service — is not the doomsday that it was once expected to be.

The vanishing films are from Starz. Its three-and-a-half-year-old deal helped Netflix persuade millions of people to sign up for Internet streaming, hastening the company’s leap to digital distribution from physical DVDs.

Many of the new titles are full seasons of TV series like “Mad Men,” “Breaking Bad” and “Lost” that Netflix executives call “26-hour movies.”

“While they are losing the Starz content later this week, and that could cause some people to cancel subscriptions to the service, the library will otherwise be generally improving throughout the year and then having a more significant step up with ‘House of Cards’ in late ’12 and ‘Arrested Development’ and Dreamworks films in ’13,” said Michael Olson, an analyst at Piper Jaffray.

Earlier this month, Netflix secured rights to “The Artist,” which won the best-picture Oscar at the Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday. It has earned just $32 million at the box office to date and will become available on Netflix in less than six months, the company said Monday.

Netflix can also replenish some of the vanishing Starz films by buying them separately. But for now, its rights to “Toy Story 3,” “Tron,” “Tangled,” “A Christmas Carol” and other films are drying up. Some TV series from Starz are vanishing too, including “Party Down” and “Spartacus,” creating new tests for Netflix’s recommendation algorithms.

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Remixed

I never used the streaming to watch movies anyway, just the TV shows

Red

Two things:

1) Hugo, Rango and The Artist are all coming to Netflix (with Rango arriving soon, for certain), among other movies, so the losses here will be offset soon enough.
2) Starz Play video quality BLOWS. It is, by far, the worst quality streaming video on Netflix.

Good riddance.

Graduation

NOT Party Down! Oh well, as long as Mad Men and Breaking Bad stay on Netflix I will be alright.

Achilles.

My family canceled our Netflix last year.

Rico Shameless v2

I watch TV shows on it anyway. I watch movies on letmewatchthis.com.

YourMadGesty

I watch all my Spartacus episodes on there. .

WoozyFloozy

If only there was some other place on the internet where I could watch movies whenever I want!

Dragana

I'm about to cancel mine. This **** aint worth $20 a month.

I've already seen all the good horror and nude movies anyway

Lee!!

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Originally posted by Childish Redbino

Two things:

1) Hugo, Rango and The Artist are all coming to Netflix (with Rango arriving soon, for certain), among other movies, so the losses here will be offset soon enough.
2) Starz Play video quality BLOWS. It is, by far, the worst quality streaming video on Netflix.

Good riddance.

Wait Hugo, Rango and The Artist are coming?! WHEN AND WHERE DID YOU HEAR THIS

Celestial

Netflix is so bad in Europe.

Red

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Originally posted by Lee!!

Wait Hugo, Rango and The Artist are coming?! WHEN AND WHERE DID YOU HEAR THIS

They signed a deal with the Weinsteins to get exclusive rights to certain movies and documentaries, including The Artist and Documentary Feature winner Undefeated, that will kick in no later than the end of the year, and a deal with Relativity Media and Epix will bring both Hugo and Rango (as well as current #1 movie Act of Valor) to Netflix. The rumor is that Rango will be on Netflix at the end of March or the beginning of April!

EDIT: From Home Media Magazine...

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Sarandos added that Oscar-winning animated feature Rango would be coming to Netflix streaming March 31. The John Depp-voiced movie was released at retail last July and is already available for disc rental on Netflix. The title, along with Oscar-winner Hugo (Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Visual Effects ), is coming Netflix through its Epix agreement.

Other Epix titles include Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Super 8, Captain America: The First Avenger and The Adventures of Tintin.

Lee!!

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Originally posted by Childish Redbino

They signed a deal with the Weinsteins to get exclusive rights to certain movies and documentaries, including The Artist and Documentary Feature winner Undefeated, that will kick in no later than the end of the year, and a deal with Relativity Media and Epix will bring both Hugo and Rango (as well as current #1 movie Act of Valor) to Netflix. The rumor is that Rango will be on Netflix at the end of March or the beginning of April!

EDIT: From Home Media Magazine...

AWESOME I wanna see so many of those haha