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Fox was the number one producer of Best Picture winners at the Oscars, with 60 movies nominated over its history. To understand the effects of this move, it’s important to realize how much of Hollywood the company now owns. And no The Princess Bride, Moulin Rouge, The Sound of Music, or hundreds of other films, any time. And no Miracle on 34th Street or Home Alone for Christmas. That means no Alien, no The Fly, and no The Omen this Halloween. According to reports by local theaters around the country, many of which have been screening showings of Fox films for years, Disney has decided they are retroactively putting these films into their vault. But Disney’s growth into an emerging monopoly and acquisition of Fox properties means that the company suddenly has a wide variety of new films in their archives. The Walt Disney Company has long maintained a “Disney Vault” policy: They virtually never allow screenings or physical re-releases (VHS, DVD, Blu-ray) for popular older films unless the company decides to do specific highly publicized events for them, thus creating a degree of artificial scarcity for their beloved classics. Alien is among hundreds of 21st Century Fox movies now owned by Disney that are apparently no longer available for local theaters to get the rights to play, due to a change in ownership. As a classic of the horror and sci-fi genres, it’s traditional around Halloween for repertory theaters to hold showings of the film. Disney’s film brands appear during a presentation at CinemaCon 2018, in Las Vegas, April 2018.Īlien has gone missing.