April 15, 2019

Disney+ launch set, but there's still no word on Fox's future

Weeks after Disney completed its buy-out of Fox, Screen Daily has released details on how Disney will roll out Disney+, its new Netflix-battling streaming service.

Still unknown? Whether Fox films will be offered on Disney+ and how Disney can monetize Fox’s many tobacco-contaminated films safely.

The explosion of smoking in recent Fox films — documented in Breathe California-UCSF’s latest film report — makes this an urgent public health question.

Large investors have challenged Disney twice about Fox’s film library and future Fox-labeled films, in 2018 and 2019, but have not gotten an answer.

Fox long had a special relationship with Philip Morris, trading board members over a 25-year period, up to just five years ago.

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