Amazon Goes To War With Warner Bros, Lego Movie Caught In The Middle — cinemablend.com

That’s right. The two giant companies are feuding over the terms of their next contract, and in a serious power move, Amazon has decided to stop taking all preorders for Lego Movie DVDs and Blu-rays. If you head over to the company’s website and even try to order, this is what you’ll see… Wah Wah Wah. Neither Amazon nor Warner Bros has spoken publicly about what the specific terms they’re fighting over are. Ordinarily, you would assume it would have to be merely the percentage of the purchase price Amazon gets to keep, but this particular dispute might be a whole lot more important than that. The online warehouse is currently at war with Hachette Book Group too, according to The New York Times, and that particular dispute is over eBooks. So, there may very well be a streaming component and pricing wrinkle to this, as well.

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