At the beginning of March, Apple TV+ delivered more than 50 “Great Movies” to U.S. subscribers for a limited time: half lasted through the end of March and the others will be gone at the end of April.
Now, Apple TV+ just added twenty-nine more “Great Movies” to its limited-time collection, including three The Godfather and The Godfather Part II films, the original Ghostbusters, a pair of Transformers movies, and more.
Recently, a new slate of movies began appearing on Apple TV+ at the beginning of each month. If there’s one on the list you’d like to watch, don’t dawdle: The films are individually labeled as staying on the service through the end of April or May.
But there are sometimes holdovers. That’s true for 27 of them that were already on the service, including three Star Trek movies, Mad Max: Fury Road, 300, and Minority Report.
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MacDailyNews Take: The new load of “Great Movies” for U.S. Apple TV+ subscribers are:
• 42
• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
• Armageddon
• Arrival
• Bridesmaids
• Bridge of Spies
• Clueless
• Contagion
• Crazy Rich Asians
• Crazy Stupid Love
• Dunkirk
• Forrest Gump
• Free State of Jones
• Ghostbusters
• Inception
• John Wick
• John Wick Chapter 2
• John Wick 3
• Mission Impossible: 4
• Sherlock Holmes
• Taken
• The Departed
• The Godfather
• The Godfather Part II
• The Heat
• The Italian Job
• The Town
• Transformers
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon
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We watched “Minority Report” last night since the Hulu app wouldn’t function on our Apple TV. It hasn’t really aged well in 22 years.
I guess even Apple realizes remaining an originals only streaming service was not viable long term.
Most all this older content is still entertaining and not woke and preachy. Unlike these “Great Movies” that have stood the test of time. Im guessing apple’s originals will have a very short shelf life and no long term appeal. Wokeness is an every changing moving target, so todays issues will be tomorrows cringe to the average viewer of Apple TV+.
It seems the best way for Apple to get good content onto Apple TV+ is to rent it out. It kinda reminds me of their AI strategy. They have nothing relevant internally so they are forced to licensing Google’s AI.
Even if Apple TV+ was as successful as Netflix (#1) it wouldn’t be worth the alienation apple created when they weaponized their platform and directly competed with their old friends. Now the entertain industry is turning on Apple
nobody cares, Apple TV+ buzz accounts for most all the major headlines we get from a computer/technology company. Currently Apple TV+ ranks 7th in a declining industry. Yet Apple continues to pretend this is a wise investment in time and energy. If Apple would have spent these (wasted) resources and focused on AI, competitive silicon for data centers, and relevant leadership in the machine learning arms race then maybe they wouldn’t be bending a knee to Google and licensing Gemini. Tim’s little project and attempt to be popular with the Hollywood crowd continues to lead apple off course. Imagine if apple would have kept their Apple TV platform agnostic and made it a common ground for all the other streaming platforms then they would have been seen as a uniting force that took the high ground. But instead they followed an incredible short sighted path that basically “over nighted” them into being into direct competition with every other streaming/entertainment company on the planet. Now YouTube and other content platforms refuse to develop apps for AVP. Apple’s once unmatched leadership and goodwill across the entertainment landscape died when they decided to directly compete with other platforms. Now the Apple TV app is a mess with a hodgepodge collection of content from others that directly competes with their own stuff. Actually you couldn’t have created a worse vision game plan for Apple TV, a computer/hardware operating systems platform, in you tried.
Give that guy in charge his golden Apple Watch and big retirement party. Call Jonathan Ives and make an offer he can’t refuse. Please put a product person with talent and vision back at the wheel.
I believe Apple tried for a decade to make deals with the studios to offer a media subscription plan similar to Apple Music. Each studio thought they could make more by offering their own platform.
So Apple was forced to create content themselves to sell the Apple TV hardware. I think they have been generally successful with that.
Here’s the real problem with AppleTV to me-
Apple.
For them to make any true entertainment that may go against the grain or even offend some could reflect on their retail sales. Can’t have this.
Most movie makers are owned or affiliated with big companies, but they don’t have their name right in the service. Apple does, so they will continue to play it safe with wokeness until the backlash is larger than if they ignore it. Either way, they risk alienating RETAIL customers also, whereas other streamers and production studios don’t worry too much about this.
And there’s my 2 pesos…
Apple TV has the best content with the most quality amongst all the streamers.