Recent DC Films Have Jumped From Prime Video To Netflix
Zaslav’s licensing plan still makes one ask, is Max the one to watch?
It’s been quite the year for Warner Bros. streaming, and it seems Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav has been willing to license anything from behind Max walls if it means money. In October, when reporting on the new Star Wars TV rights, I touched on how a bunch of DC films (and Elvis) had landed on Prime Video while Dune and The Many Saints of Newark had hit Netflix. Now it’s December 1, and while a bunch of the titles predated the DCEU, like Green Lantern and Batman Returns, it’s all gone, at least on the instant end. Except all the recent stuff has been transplanted to Netflix. Non-exclusively of course.
These recent DC films were added to Netflix this day: Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Shazam!, Suicide Squad, The Suicide Squad, Birds of Prey, Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman 1984, The Batman, Black Adam, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, and DC League of SuperPets. It spans all ten years of the DCEU and includes non-DCEU films like The Batman and SuperPets. While not every film jumped, most of them are sure to still be on Max. It also comes as the final DCEU film, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, releases in theaters on December 22.
Notably, Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Godzilla vs. Kong seem to have been waiting for them, and they come aboard alongside the Jason Statham monster movie The Meg. On top of that, its sequel Meg 2: The Trench, released this very year, is hitting Netflix as well on December 29, exactly three months after hitting Max. As for Prime Video, it’s being left with a parting gift. Kind of. The notorious criminal-starring The Flash film is arriving on Christmas Day. Netflix brings Star Trek: Prodigy season 1 back among the streamers, Doctor Who has its first Christmas special in 6 years, and Prime Video gets The Flash. Not the best deal in the world for them. But it’s happening, just four months after its Max arrival. This arrangement also means that the majority of the DCEU and the front end of the Arrowverse can reside on the same streaming service for the first time.
