Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland To Hit Netflix And Redbox On Street Date, June 1st, Avoids 28 Day Delay

With the recent proclamations from people inside Blockbuster, announcing that they will be giving special treatment, a.k.a. preference when it comes to shelf space, to those films from studios who decide to level a now standard 28-day rental window, in the favor of the video rental giant.

This window allows Blockbuster to have access to films a full four weeks prior to the likes of Redbox and Netflix. Studios going along with this include Warner Brothers, Fox, and Universal. One name however, that doesn’t appear on that list, is Disney.

And it doesn’t look like it will anytime soon.

According to Home Media Magazine (via Hacking Netflix), Disney will be releasing their big hit of 2010, Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, directly to Netflix on the DVD street date, June 1. This is a massive story, at least when taking into account the seemingly massive storm that is ahead of Blockbuster and other brick and mortar rental shops. Disney not only makes a massive amount of money with each and every release coming out of the house of the mouse, but they are easily the most utterly recognizable studio working. I equate this to something like a video game console war, or any similar tech battle. Currently, Blockbuster is like that one video game console where it’s got a lot of B grade titles, but doesn’t have the killer app that the other two do. Redbox and Netflix, at least for the time being, have that killer app, and it’s name is Disney.

Source: Home Media Magazine / Hacking Netflix