The fact that iconic Wall Street films will similarly miss the big moment around ambitious investors and skeevy short selling is indicative of a bigger problem with streaming in 2021, one that will likely continue to get worse as more and more studios continue to reclaim their content for their own services. There was a similar issue during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when millions of viewers looking to watch Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 film Contagion were frustrated that the film wasn’t available to stream anywhere. Whether you live in South Africa or anywhere else on the planet, the problem of not knowing what to watch is the same. It’s one that streaming services have been grappling with in recent years, as big players like Netflix and Hulu have been less encompassing and streaming services have focused more on building up libraries of original content. There’s also Margin Call, which is streaming on Peacock (for now).īut the dearth of classic Wall Street films isn’t a unique issue. Streaming giant Netflix is set to release a new feature for children that will use short video clips just like on social media platform TikTok to advertise kids’ movies and shows. I put the film on my list some time ago, but today it disappeared. If you are looking for a financial film to watch this weekend, though, the sequel, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, is on Amazon Prime. The Big Short disappeared from Netflix (Italy).
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The same applies to 2000’s Boiler Room, which is also absent from any streaming service.Ģ0th Century Fox’s Wall Street is - predictably - not on Disney Plus to stream, but it’s also not available on Hulu or any other service. So unless you’re willing to pony up some actual cash to buy or rent the film (which, like The Big Short, is shooting up rental charts), you won’t be enjoying Leonardo DiCaprio’s profanity-fueled chest-thumping either. But the Paramount film is nowhere to be found on any streaming platform. Maybe the ups and downs of the stock market reminded you more of Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, chronicling the rise and fall of investor Jordan Belfort. Instead, your only option is to buy or rent it - which, it seems, many people are doing, given that the film has shot to the No. Paramount (which distributed the film) might be saving it for Paramount Plus, which is set to launch in March, but that won’t do you any good this weekend. Right now, you can stream it with ads on Crackle, of all services. This week’s short stock drama have you hankering for The Big Short? You won’t find it on Netflix, Hulu, or HBO Max. Nearly every major finance film isn’t available to stream right now in the US (at least, not at the time of publication of this article), thanks to the capricious nature of the streaming marketplace, the increasingly fragmented libraries of studios, and the byzantine licensing deals that regulate what you can stream and where.
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