The Fate of ‘Fast & Furious’ Will Tell Us If Comcast Believes in Peacock as a Netflix Competitor

The launch of Disney+ in November 2019 was a declaration of war on licensing.

If you wanted to watch anything Disney’s made, past, present, and future, now there was only one place to do it.

It was the new testament for streaming, embraced by everyone from Netflix to HBO Max: Control the narrative by producing must-watch movies and shows for your own platform.

So why is Comcast — which is still nursing its fledgling Peacock — weighing the possibility of giving “Fast & Furious,” “Jurassic World,” and other Universal franchise installments to… Netflix and HBO Max?For the last eight years, most Universal movies head to HBO after their DVD debuts — about nine months after their theatrical releases.

NBCUniversal animation division Illumination Entertainment has its own deal; films like “Despicable Me” go to Netflix.

The last iteration of that deal was 2013 — less than three years after then-TimeWarner CEO Jeff Bewkes mocked the

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