🎬 Physical media news & deals from Rare Flicks Plus
Sony just confirmed it. Starting September 1, 2026, over 550 movies and TV shows will vanish from PlayStation users’ digital libraries — films people paid full price for. The reason? Sony’s licensing deal with StudioCanal ended, and Sony says that’s that. No refunds. No compensation. Just a notice that reads, “you will no longer be able to access your previously purchased content… and it will be removed from your video library.”
Titles caught in the wipe include Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Rambo: First Blood, Pan’s Labyrinth, Evil Dead, RoboCop (2014), and hundreds more — horror classics, action staples, and critically acclaimed films alike.
This isn’t new. It happened in 2022 when 300+ films disappeared. It’ll happen again. Every digital “purchase” is really just a license — one that can be revoked the moment a distribution deal expires.
There’s one format this can’t happen to: physical media. Nobody can remotely delete a disc off your shelf. No licensing agreement, no server shutdown, no corporate decision ever touches what you physically hold.
If you want some of the affected titles in a format nobody can take back, we’ve got a few in stock:
- Rambo: The Fight Continues (DVD)
- Terminator Salvation (Blu-ray)
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (DVD)
- Ash vs Evil Dead: Season One (DVD)
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