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

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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.
 
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.

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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
 
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