The company’s deal with WarnerMedia lets it put the movies on NBCU-owned streaming properties, so if the films aren’t going to be on Max, common sense dictates NBCU will want to drive audiences to Peacock with the lure of Harry and the gang. While nobody involved is talking, it seems a safe bet that with the Potter pics leaving Max, their next streaming home - at least for a few months - will be NBCU’s Peacock.
WHERE ARE THE HARRY POTTER MOVIES STREAMING MOVIE
It’s pretty common in movie licensing deals for titles to come on and off networks and platforms, so much so that there’s an industry phrase for it: “windowing.” Usually, these windows last for years, but since many current rights deals (like NBCU’s with WarnerMedia for Harry Potter) were struck before the recent launch of so many new streamers, we are now likely to see shorter windows as various streamers try to find ways to generate publicity and sign-up. WarnerMedia and NBCU made a deal last spring letting Max claw back some of those rights on a nonexclusive basis, and now we know that this agreement (which has never been formally announced) limited Max’s initial time frame for streaming the Potter films to three months - at least for now. Their inclusion on Max was a bit of a surprise: While WarnerMedia controls the overall rights to the films, NBCUniversal signed a deal a few years back leasing the movies for its various linear and digital platforms until 2025. The eight movies in the franchise were a last-minute addition to WarnerMedia’s spiffy new streamer, appearing without any advance notice when the service signed on at the end of May. Update: July 10, 3:45 p.m.: Evanesco! The Harry Potter movies will be disappearing from HBO Max on August 25, the platform announced on Monday.
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