Warner Bros is sharing select movies for free on YouTube

[embedded content]

Over the past several weeks, Warner Bros. Entertainment has been uploading a selection of full movies to a playlist on YouTube. It’s an odd move, considering parent Warner Bros. Discovery also owns the increasingly pricey streaming service Max. But free is free, so the company can be odd as much as it wants!

It’d be easy to assume this is where the studio is putting its less prestigious back catalog, just to see if it can rake in some ad revenue from an unexpected source. And there is some impressively terrible stuff in the playlist, including a 1988 Bobcat Goldthwait vehicle that achieved the rare 0 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

But this isn’t just a digital dumping ground for bad movies. Quality films such as Waiting for Guffman (from the hilarious Christopher Guest), The Science of Sleep (directed by Michel Gondry) and The Mission (starring Robert DeNiro and Jeremy Irons) are all currently available in full on the YouTube playlist.

It’s tough to gauge exactly why Warner Bros. would be taking this route, or how the company is selecting movies to release. Maybe it’s a response to business debts. Maybe it’s a licensing issue. Whatever the reason, the TL;DR is that there are some fascinating movies you can stream for free, and new titles are being added every week.

Related Posts

NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’

A number of federal employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the US federal agency that monitors and models the oceans and atmosphere for the purpose of predicting…

Read more

Sonos will cut ‘about 200’ jobs in restructuring

Sonos is embarking on a restructuring plan that will eliminate about 200 positions at the company. Interim CEO Tom Conrad announced the news in a call with the team, then…

Read more

US Shoppers Face Fees of Up to $50 or More to Get Packages From China

One day after US President Donald Trump’s new tariffs on Chinese imports kicked into effect, shipping companies have already started charging higher import duties and processing fees, bewildering American consumers….

Read more

Google is reportedly changing course on its diversity initiatives, too

Google is changing its tune around efforts to hire employees from historically underrepresented backgrounds, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. The company reportedly announced that it…

Read more

Reddit blames ‘bug’ after banning more than 90 NSFW subreddits

Reddit briefly banned dozens of subreddits without warning on Wednesday due to a “bug” that affected scores of NSFW communities on the site. Redditors were told the subreddits were banned…

Read more

Every Generation Of Porsche 911 GT3 RS, Ranked By Top Speed

The Porsche 911 GT3 RS is Porsche’s most powerful normally aspirated 911, as well as its most track-focused car. The 911 GT3 RS, designed as an enhancement of the 911…

Read more

Leave a Reply