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A moratorium is the practice of suspending the sales of films on home video DVD, VHS, and Blu-ray and boxed sets after a certain period of time. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment was famous for this practice, known as the "Disney Vault," in which it would only sporadically sell home videos of animated films in the Disney catalogue, until 2019 when a program of undeletions and re-releases ultimately restored all Disney titles into simultaneous print on home entertainment for the first time and on the Disney+ streaming service.[1] The 20th Century Fox film library (with the notable exception of The Rocky Horror Picture Show) was placed into moratorium and removed from theaters following Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox in 2019 according to a Vulture article; the decision noted the different policies between Fox, which had made most of its film archive available to theaters at all times, and Disney, which did (and does) not.[2]
- ^ Perez, Sarah (March 8, 2019). "Disney's forthcoming streaming service will kill the Disney Vault". Tech Crunch. Retrieved February 9, 2020.
- ^ Zoller-Seitz, Matt (October 24, 2019). "Disney Is Quietly Placing Classic Fox Movies Into Its Vault, And That's Worrying". Vulture.com. Retrieved February 9, 2020.