Netflix Extends Deal for Animation Films With Universal Pictures

Netflix and Comcast’s Universal Pictures are extending a multi-year unique rights deal within the United States for animated movie franchises equivalent to Minions and Puss in Boots, the streaming large mentioned on Tuesday. This follows Amazon Prime Video’s announcement late final week that Universal motion pictures will probably be solely added to the streaming platform’s library.

Netflix’s rights to stream these standard motion pictures, made by Universal’s DreamWorks Animation studios, will start after a four-month window on Peacock, Comcast’s in-house streaming service.

Netflix at the moment streams motion pictures together with Despicable Me and The Grinch from Universal’s Illumination studios.

The streaming firm added it will license the rights to Universal’s full-animated and live-action slate of movies about 4 years after their launch in addition to the rights to different choose titles.

The deal ought to assist Netflix preserve the Kids subscriber base hooked and comes at a time when studios equivalent to Disney are holding again on promoting rights to streamers to spice up their very own platforms.

Comcast final week mentioned that Universal’s new motion pictures would solely go to Peacock no later than 4 months after they debut in theatres.

On July 9, Prime Video announced that it struck a licensing cope with Universal Filmed Entertainment Group. Beginning in 2022, the multi-year deal will see Universal movies head solely to Prime Video and films equivalent to Chris Pratt-starrer Jurassic World: Dominion, Sebastian Stan-starrer The 355, and Jake Gyllenhaal-starrer Ambulance will land on the service after their theatrical releases and earlier unique four-month run on Peacock.

Netflix on Tuesday snagged 129 nominations on the 2021 Emmy Awards, only one lower than HBO’s (now counted as HBO and HBO Max) 130 nods. Check out the detailed 2021 Emmy nominations right here.