Saw the last Star Wars movie last night at the privately-owned little theater in Edmonds, WA. I liked the film, but I liked the original trilogy and the final three just fine... they are a good time at the movies with some fun moments.

But before every film at this theater, the owner gets up on stage and talks to the audience a bit about community theater, and what "throwback" films people want him to get for thee Throwback Thursdays shows.

Last night was different.

Disney, with the acquisition of all of 20th Century Fox catalog, and the release of Disney+, will no longer work with private/independent theaters any more. If an independent wants to EVER show a Disney-owned film again, they need to consume and market the ENTIRE superhero catalog, sell Disney's merch and partner's food, and not show any more independent films.

It is EXACTLY the dick-move that everyone was expecting Disney to pull, and they did.

Tron. Dead Poet's Society. Pretty Woman. Noises Off. The Nightmare Before Christmas. Ed Wood. Grosse Pointe Blank. The Sixth Sense. High Fidelity. Pirates of the Caribbean (all of them). Up. All Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Alien, Avatar, Deadpool, Die Hard, X-Men films. Grapes of Wrath. Miracle on 34th Street. The Sound of Music. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. MASH. Home Alone. The Martian. (20Th Century Fox's catalog goes back to 1914's "Gertie the Dinosaur", and includes some of the earliest films ever screened.) All the Three Stooges films. Thee King and I. South Pacific. Hello Dolly! Patton. All That Jazz. All of "The Omen" horror films. The Cannonball Run. The Gods Must Be Crazy. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai. Brazil. The Name of the Rose. The Princess Bride. All TMNT products. The Exorcist. All the Predator films. Naked Lunch. Speed. Office Space. Fight Club.

Etc.