I didn’t say the rights issue was preventing a new release. I said they are intentionally keeping what’s coming next in their back pocket for after May of 2020 so they don’t have to share any of the profits with Fox.
Again, this doesn’t make any sense though and doesn’t hold up to the bare minimum of scrutiny. If they didn’t want to share money with Fox, they wouldn’t be selling the Blurays right now, at all. The distribution rights aren’t faintly related to the lack of OOT release in way at all.
“Not selling Star Wars anywhere, at all” is what doesn’t make sense.
Exactly.
It’s not that Disney doesn’t want to share any profits at all with Fox. It’s that they don’t want to share the sudden spike in profits that would come with a 4k/OOT release.
I don’t buy the idea of a huge spike in profits. The OOT has become relic of the past, mostly desired by purists. If anything interest for them seems to be waning with each year that passes.