Disney+ has removed the four original Indiana Jones movies from its streaming service amid a new wave of title removals.
The four films include the classics: Indiana Jones And The Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom, Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, and Indiana Jones And The Crystal Skull.
Recall back in 2023 when Disney+ removed dozens of titles including Lucasfilm’s Willow, Marvel’s Project Hero, Marvel’s MPower, Marvel’s Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever, and more.
Disney+ removed the titles as a tax write-off due to the underperformance of the assets. It’s also believed that they were pulled to avoid paying residuals to actors, writers, and other creatives involved. In short, it means not enough people were watching to justify Disney continuing to pay out money.
Paramount actually owns the distribution rights to the four original Indiana Jones movies. However, with the release of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny on Disney+, the classic Indy films were also made available on the platform through a licensing deal between Disney and Paramount.
With Disney+ dropping the four titles, it’s clear that Disney has chosen not to renew the licensing deal. It’s also likely that not enough people were watching to justify the cost of renewal. We can guess that it is likely the four original Indiana Jones movies will eventually find a new home on Paramount’s streaming service, Paramount+.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is known to have led in part to a huge nearly $400 million loss for Disney.
Even the Disney fan site, What’s On Disney Plus, is surprised by the news and notes, “It’s certainly unfortunate” and that the “licensing deal that was agreed was much shorter than… expected.”
Additional titles Disney+ has dropped include (via Reddit):
- Movies
- Togo (D+ original) – Willem Dafoe & huskies in a fact-based aventure film
- TV shows
- A Small Light (Nat Geo) – Anne Frank miniseries
- Genius: MLK/X (Nat Geo) – season 4 of anthology biopic series
- Saturdays (Disney Channel, live action) – coming-of-age comedy with Cuba Gooding Jr.’s brother
- Pretty Freekin Scary (Disney Channel, live action) – fantasy horror comedy
- Hailey’s On It! (Disney Channel, animated) – lead voice by Auliʻi Cravalho (voice of Moana)
- Documentary shorts
- The Biggest Little Farm: The Return (Nat Geo)
- Docuseries
- Top Ten: 80’s (Nat Geo)
- Superhot: The Spicy World Of Pepper People (Hulu)
- Science Fair: The Series (Nat Geo)
- Farm Dreams (Nat Geo)
- Locked Up: Abroad (Nat Geo)
- Narco Wars (Nat Geo)
- Reality shows
- Living For The Dead (Hulu)
- Love & WWE: Bianca & Montez (Hulu)
- Love In Fairhope (Hulu)
- Home In The Wild (Nat Geo)
- Never Say Never with Jeff Jenkins (Nat Geo)
- Wicked Tuna (Nat Geo)
- Cesar Millan: Better Human, Better Dog (Nat Geo)
- Variety shows
- America’s Funniest Home Videos: Animal Edition (Nat Geo)
