Is YouTube Launching a Netflix Competitor?

RedEaredSlider writes "YouTube could become the latest to offer a movie rental service, challenging streaming sites such as Netflix. Google is lining up deals with major Hollywood studios in order to launch the service. An anonymous executive at a studio that has signed on said Sony Pictures Entertainment, Warner Brothers, Lionsgate and Universal have all licensed their movies to the service. Not everyone is on board — Paramount, Fox and Disney declined to join."

Re:Good luck with that

[iluvcapra]

Paramount:

• Complete Paramount and Desilu film and television library, including all Star Trek syndicated TV and feature films.
• Complete CBS and Viacom television library, Aaron Spelling's library, MTV, Showtime, TNT, SpikeTV...
• Carolco catalogue: Total Recall, Terminator 2, LA Story, Oliver Stone's Stone's The Doors
• Most of the Cannon Films library, which is sortof a laugh but has a ton of genre scifi films from the 80s that we love: Invasion, USA, Runaway Train, Cyborg etc.
• The CW (heh!)
• Basically anything with a Paramount logo on it after 1970. Depressingly, Paramount sold most of its back catalogue off in the 50s. It never held indefesible rights to the Alfred Hitchcock films it produced, those reverted to his estate (thank god).

Fox:

• Any Alien film
• Any Star Wars film (a mixed bag to be sure)
• Any Predator film, any Die Hard film
• 20th TV, so Fringe, Firefly, 24, Family Guy, American Dad , Simpsons, etc.
  

Fox is huge hunk chunk of the contemporary adult library and makes a ton of good new content. Disney:

• Any Pixar film
• Basically any film made in the last 30 years you can take a 10 year old to see without worrying about what's in it
• Bascially any film made previous to the last 30 years that a 10 year old would WANT to see
• Touchstone: Dead Poets Society, almost anything Ron Howard made in the 80s, Wes Anderson's films, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• Much Jerry Bruckheimer, through Touchstone of Hollywood Pictures: The Rock, Pirates of the Carribean, but older films like Con Air and The Ref to name only a few.
• ABC Studios: Lost, Scrubbs, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy
• Hollywood Pictures, genre films of the 90s: Arachnophobia, etc.

These three studios control maybe half the modern library real estate. Warner Bros, controls basically the entire classic film library, Sony much of the remaining TV and both control most of the remaining franchises.