“Jurassic Park” will leave Netflix at the end of September — two months after it left NBCUniversal’s streaming service Peacock.
What’s going on?
- The “Jurassic Park” trilogy — “Jurassic Park,” “The Lost World: Jurassic Park” and “Jurassic Park III” — joined Netflix on Aug. 1 after being on Peacock for 17 day, which I wrote about for Deseret.com.
- The films will leave Netflix on Sept. 30, according to Deadline.
- No one knows where they will go next.
- “Jurassic Park” is owned by Universal Studios, so you’d think NBCUniversal’s Peacock would be the ideal fit. But stranger things have happened.
- Netflix is still planning to release an original series called “Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous.”
Why is it moving again?
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Films often flip between streaming services because their distribution rights are bought by other platforms. Deadline had a good explanation for it all:
“Licensing and distribution has become a dense thicket for business affairs and legal teams to slice their way through, with properties assumed to be in-house often winding up somewhere else due to legacy dealmaking. Until quite recently — and even still, in many cases — licensing titles to third parties was the way of the world. Now, traditional companies are trying to lock up more of their own properties, though that can be expensive.”