Disney+ Is Already Losing Movies: "Home Alone" and Others Removed Due to Licensing Issues

[Tsing]

Disney's streaming service only debuted two months ago, but its catalog has already grown slimmer.

According to angry subscribers who took to Twitter, Disney+ has lost the following 12 movies:

• Home Alone 1 and 2
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
• The Sandlot
• Flicka
• Dr. Dolittle
• White Wilderness
• Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties
• The Shaggy Dog (2006)
• Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
• Strange Magic
• The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration

A spokesperson confirmed the loss with Gizmodo and reasoned that they had to be removed due to pre-existing legacy agreements.

These titles will return when their licenses expire, but that could take a while.

We’ve known that this would be the case for some time now. Back in October, a Disney+ spokesperson told Gizmodo that a “very, very small” number of titles would periodically leave the service if they had pre-existing legacy agreements for licensing in place prior to the service’s launch.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

The flip side of the this is that I've encountered a number of titles that show up in searches but when you click on them the site gives a date on when they'll arrive on the service due to licensing issues.

 

[Dogsofjune]

If it wasn't free for me, because of the Verizon deal, I'd ditch Disney +. Limited stuff to watch, and that list of movies being removed above, were not things I wanted to see.

Most of what I do want to see is like what lostin3d states. Not available yet