Amazon has struck a multi-year deal for unique Prime Video streaming rights for Universal’s live-action theatrical releases. As Deadline stories, it is the primary time Amazon has made such an settlement with a serious US studio. The deal kicks in with Universal’s 2022 slate of films.

Here’s the place issues would possibly get a bit complicated. The deal is for a bit of the pay-one window, which is the 18-month interval after a film’s theatrical run. Earlier this week, Universal and its NBCUniversal sibling Peacock reached the same settlement for the primary 4 and final 4 months of the window.

Within 4 months of their theatrical launch date, Universal’s live-action motion pictures will begin streaming on Peacock. Four months after that, they will transfer over to Prime Video for 10 months, then the movies will return to Peacock for at the very least one other 4 months. Streaming rights can get fairly difficult!

The deal covers blockbusters resembling Jurassic World: Dominion, Get Out director Jordan Peele’s subsequent horror movie and Halloween Ends. Movies from Focus Features and Blumhouse are additionally a part of the pact.

Netflix at present streams Universal’s animated motion pictures from Illumination and DreamWorks. According to Deadline, from subsequent yr onwards, Netflix would possibly nonetheless stream the studio’s animated releases for the ten months of the pay-one window that they don’t seem to be on Peacock. In any case, these movies will hit Prime Video at a later date. Phew.

Meanwhile, Amazon’s free streaming service IMDb TV will maintain unique streaming rights for 2020 and 2021 theatrical motion pictures from Universal. The deal covers The Invisible Man and present field workplace champ F9, together with some older animated motion pictures like Despicable Me 2, How to Train Your Dragon 2 and Shrek 2.

The Prime Video deal follows a serious settlement between Netflix and Sony Pictures. Starting in 2022, Netflix may have unique rights to Sony’s theatrical releases for the 18-month pay-one window. So, motion pictures like Uncharted, the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse sequel and Morbius are all Netflix-bound.