Harry and Meghan blow speculation ‘wide open’ that they are planning Disney move
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have blown speculation "wide open" that they are planning a move to Disney amid speculation that the Sussexes will soon cut ties with Netflix.
Rumours have been circulating for months that Netflix could cut ties with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, or vice versa, which follows on from how Spotify stopped working with the couple last year. This was then further fuelled when the couple attended the Bob Marley: One Love premiere in Jamaica earlier this year, with the couple even posing with Brian Robbins - the CEO of Paramount Pictures.
And now, a new Prince Harry documentary has started streaming on the Disney-owned platform Hulu. The documentary features segments of the Duke's recent Good Morning America interview, which he gave while in Canada recently.
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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex signed a deal with Netflix in 2020 (Getty Images for the Invictus Games Foundation)The new Hulu documentary dubs Prince William as "jealous" of Harry's success with the Invictus Games, and it also claims that Harry's father King Charles doesn't have a relationship with his grandchildren Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet.
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And now Hollywood and public relations guru Lynn Carratt from Press Box PR has weighed in on Harry's latest documentary, with her revealing that it has "caused controversy" due to the Sussexes having an £80million deal with Netflix, "making it surprising that the documentary would not screen on Netflix as Hulu is one of their rivals", she noted.
"It's worth noting that Hulu is only available for streaming in the USA and not the UK and it’s likely that the documentary was a pre-requisite of the ABC interview he did with Good Morning America during The Invictus Games One Year to Event and Harry has signed a release to allow them to put this documentary together. After all it is good PR for the Invictus Games," Lynn went on.
She then touched on "the amount of money involved in their Netflix contract" and how it's likely that Harry and Hulu "would have had to run this by Netflix before making it - they’ll be also all kinds of clauses to jump through in a contract of that magnitude".
"It's also worth mentioning that Netflix previously streamed Prince Harry's Heart of Invictus documentary last year, which did not perform well in terms of streaming figures," Lynn noted, adding how it failed to make Netflix’s top 10 list, "so it is likely that Netflix had the first refusal on the documentary and they’ve passed on. As they are currently focusing on the film Meet Me at the Lake, that Harry and Meghan are producing."
Concluding her analysis, Lynn told us: "However, this does now blow the speculation wide open that when their $80 million contract with Netflix ends in early 2025, will they be planning a move to Disney who own Hulu?"
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