CBSAllAccess streaming service is set to receive a makeover and relaunch as Paramount+ on March 4th this year. To highlight what’s coming to the streaming service, Viacom held a special presentation for the press and investors.
During the event Paramount Pictures CEO Jim Gianopulos stated that Bumblebee will be available on Paramount+ and the upcoming Transformers movie will join the service after its theatrical run.
“Paramount’s recent titles will be unified and available as well– from Dora the Explorer to Sonic the Hedgehog to Bumblebee and Rocketman, all coming to Paramount+. All told, we will have more than 2,500 movies on Paramount+, and that’s just the ones that already exist. We have an exciting, robust slate of some of the most anticipated films and beloved franchises planned for 2021 and the years to come.
Future releases … like Sonic the Hedgehog, the newest Transformers, Dungeons & Dragons, The Saint, and many others … will also be coming to Paramount+ after their theatrical runs.”
Additionally, Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins will release on Paramount+ in 2022.
“The rest of our 2021 film lineup … including Snake Eyes, Clifford the Big Red Dog and Top Gun: Maverick … will all be coming to Paramount+ in 2022 after their respective theatrical runs.”
Runamuck86
This
jrod1019
If it's a movie I need to see badly Amazon Prime will have VOD or I'll just end up buying a copy but to support this nawwww.
Dead Metal
HBO was Warner Bros foray into cable at the time. HBO is just a Warner Bros brand. That's why HBO has all those Warner Bros brands and properties.
HBO Max is basically Warner Bros (AtnT's) Disney+, just they decided to market it under their famous and successful cable Channel.
And we'll see even more content there, since ATnT killed all other Warner owned streaming services, like DC Universe, to consolidate it all under a single banner to compete with Disney+.
Both Disney and ATnT are possitioned similarly, they both hold major ips and media behemoths in all kinds of fields.
If ATnT can get its shit together and finally make a proper global rollout, they can actually compete with Disney at a high level.
Paramount+ is a dead fish in the water. Viacom should have stuck to the close working relationship with Netflix they claimed they were going to have back when they successfully launched the Rocko's Modern Life and Invader Zim movies. Or at least bought them.
Gumblor Gimbles
I think that was the joke.
Yeah, like the DC animated movies. I think I heard someone suggest this ages ago, Great idea.
Chopperface
That’s exactly the problem. Cable is dying, so they’re trying to still make money off us by having a billion streaming services, branding their IP’s like cattle saying “nope if you wanna watch it you gotta pay up over here”. Who “they” are, well I guess is not so simple but when money is lost, life finds a way to get it out of you another way.
I was annoyed seeing the Super Bowl ad with Spongebob, DJ Khaled, Patrick Stewart, and TMNT boasting about the service and now I’m even more annoyed seeing this. I know it’s nothing people haven’t already complained about but I hate that the rush of streaming services are hoarding their IP’s to make you have to buy another service. I have Netflix and Disney+, both of which have been excellent investments well worth my money. But more and more is getting pulled away from Netflix that I use it for watching. Paramount+ is going to take Avatar, Korra, Transformers and who knows what else.
There’s a great thread on Twitter detailing how the streaming wars are really not a fight anybody but Disney is prepared for. Disney has spent a century building their brand and “Disneyness” for better or worse. It means something to see Disney logo on something. I don’t associate Spongebob with Paramount, or Trevor Noah, and I don’t associate Cartoon Network cartoons with HBO Max (if anything I associate Sex and the City and Bill Maher with HBO). Disney has their brand and they’re gobbling up IP, and it really means something to see Disney+Marvel+Star Wars+Simpsons on their banner for Disney+.
Like who cares if they have a random John Wayne film on Paramount+ (I don’t know if they do and I’m sure someone does care but regardless)? I don’t associate IP’s with HBO or Paramount, not like I do Disney. Maybe Warner Bros because of something like Looney Tunes or Harry Potter, but they went to HBO Max. How long before we get Warner Bros+ and they pull out of HBO Max?
Bottom line is, all the streaming services will crash because they don’t have brand recognition. Why would I recognize DJ Khaled and Patrick Stewart and TMNT as Paramount? I get what HBO Max did with its 2021 theatrical slate, I understand WB is just trying to survive the pandemic. But outside of that, the streaming services are going to fail because they’re not big enough, and Disney might end up gobbling up even more when they all go down.
sorry, long post to basically summarize the thread I saw or how I understand it. This news alone is confirming that I won’t be able to throw on Netflix for something like Prime if I felt like it. I remember watching DOTM on Netflix. Geez. What a mess we’re in.
maltesefalcon
in the paraphrased words of fanzone "this is why i hate corporate machines"!
personally im just going to buy the blurays and laugh when all your streaming stuff is censored or removed
Paxtin
"What should we call our streaming service?…Paraflix?…Nah…Mount-Prime!…No, no that doesn't work…"
"…Parulu?"
Chaos Muffin
Who owns & is sitting on Robots in Disguise from 2000?
Is it Viacom or Disney?
Wish whoever it is would let it go.
mn_128875
This might never happen but I kind of hope that they make animated adaptations of the comics such as: last stand of the wreckers, all hail megatron, target 2006, sins of the wreckers, autocracy, the reign of starscream, etc. for this streaming service.
Snaku
Streaming sure was nice for a few years there until all the companies got greedy and decided they wanted their own. I didn't buy cbs and I'm not going to buy paramount. We've got netflix, disney+, and Amazon prime, and we use my in-laws' hulu. Only reason we got disney was to share with my in-laws cuz they were sharing hulu and Amazon video just came with prime shipping. Not getting any more services no matter what's on them. Still got my Blu-ray and DVD collection and I guess it's not going anywhere.
Cbs really pissed me off: Star trek discovery was a Netflix show everywhere except the US and Picard was an Amazon show outside the US. Those services funded the shows but the deal cbs made was they get exclusive rights in the US.
barrelks
I was basically talking about cable. At some point there has to be some consolidation (or flat out losers in this industry). I don't watch a lot of TV, but the only streaming service I would really consider at this point is Disney+. Stayed a weekend at my sisters, couldn't find anything on Netflix that even looked halfway intriguing, but now there just seems to be so many out there where content is getting spread pretty thin. Maybe if major cable providers weren't so terrible we wouldn't have needed this.
Mattymo
same. Only Disney+ and YouTube premium for me. Not to mention we kinda already did have that at one point. It was OG Netflix streaming. Sure it didn’t have everything but it had most things that were popular and trending and then all these stupid studios and companies said “umm…we’re just getting a flat licensing fee. We can just make our own!” And that’s where it all became over saturated and continuing to do so.
Dinobot Snarl
As someone who barely gets a chance to watch TV, that sounds like recreating the Cable experience…. $100 per month, no thanks, I'm fine with Disney and Amazon Prime.
barrelks
Keeping up on different streaming companies is getting more difficult than keeping up on what shops are getting exclusive toys.
Its getting to the point where someone should really consider making a service that bundles a bunch of these programs by category, puts them in order, maybe by number or letter, preferably number, and offers them as a package where these programs are rotating throughout the day and you can choose to watch or record them.
Retroheavy
Welcome to the future of television.
SilverOptimus
That is if Hasbro extends the licensing agreement. The current one ends in November 2022.
Mattymo
they only have theatrical rights to make movies They don’t have tv rights and that includes streaming services to make new content. That’s why shows like the Netflix series exist. I’ll use this example again, Sony has the rights to only make spider-man movies. They can’t make spin off shows from their movies and that’s why they don’t. It’s the same thing here. Paramount which I’ll also point out is only a co-producer of the movies only has film rights meaning they can only do movies of the transformers they can’t make shows.
kaijuguy19
I wouldn't be surprised if Paramount ends up making exclusive TF shows on there that's set in the new movie universe established by Bumblebee.
BBJazz
Every streaming service that exists makes all streaming services less relevant.
Mattymo
usually when a movie leaves it’s just because their license is up. That’s why certain Disney films are not on Disney+. They still have a license with other streaming services. That’s why it took nearly a year and half for all the Disney owned and produced MCU films to end up there and there are still films waiting to be added. It’s not really a thing “oh take off our movies because we’re starting a service of our own” but more “your agreement and license is coming up we’re not going to renew”