The entire 'Star Wars' film library is coming to cable TV
LOS ANGELES -- It's true. It's coming to cable TV. All of it.
After being off regular television for more than two years, every Star Wars movie -- including four planned future films -- will play at some point on Turner Broadcasting's network channels, including TNT, TBS and Turner Classic Movies. TNT will be first up, broadcasting undisclosed Star Wars films as early as next week.
The reward for those rights was ... well, more wealth than you can imagine! (Something like $275 million for eight years, according to the Wall Street Journal.)
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Starz currently is playing Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which first appeared on the cable channel last week as part of a one-off deal that runs through the end of 2017. And the deal with Turner (an investor in Mashable) won't affect Netflix's exclusive pact for Disney movies, which gets all Pixar, Lucasfilm and Disney flicks first during the "pay TV" window.
Once that window concludes, Turner can play Star Wars films past and future whenever it wants, as many times as it wants. And if you're not afraid of flipping around channels and landing on one, thereby sacrificing the next two hours ... you will be.
You will be.
Topics Star Wars
Josh Dickey is Mashable's Entertainment Editor, leading Mashable's TV, music, gaming and sports reporters as well as writing movie features and reviews.Josh has been the Film Editor at Variety, Entertainment Editor at The Associated Press and Managing Editor at TheWrap.com.A finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club's Best Entertainment Feature in 2015 for "Everyone is Altered: The Secret Hollywood Procedure that Fooled Us for Years," Josh received his BA in Journalism from The University of Minnesota.In between screenings, he can be found skating longboards, shredding guitar and wandering the streets of his beloved downtown Los Angeles.
