News The Disney+ (The New Streaming Service) Thread

[The Nth Doctor]

Almost all of the Spider-Man films are coming to Disney+ soon:

On April 21, Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy will debut on Disney’s streaming service. That’s 2002's Spider-Man, 2004's Spider-Man 2, and 2007's Spider-Man 3, all starring Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst. They’ll also be joined on April 21 by 2012's The Amazing Spider-Man, starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone.

Then, a few weeks later, two more Spider-Verse films join the mix. On May 12, an actual MCU film—Spider-Man: Homecoming, starring Tom Holland—will hit the streaming service, and it’ll be joined by 2018's Venom starring Tom Hardy. A press release from Disney states that “additional titles from Sony Pictures’ film and television library are expected to premiere on Disney+ in the U.S. later this year.”
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Presumably the remaining films (Far From Home, No Way Home, and the second Garfield film) aren't arriving right away due to previous streaming deals and that they're the ones that are coming out later this year. But maybe that's me guessing hopefully.

 

[thribs]

Most of them already are. Just Spider-Man 3 and No Way Home

 

[Tuskin38]

The Canadian Disney+ has had all them, except No-Way Home and Far From Home, for a while now.

I guess there was distribution rights issues in the states.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Yup, this is unique to the States. Everything is much simpler outside of here.

Because of course.

 

[JD]

Cool, I'll finally be able to watch Homecoming again. The MCU Spider-Man movies are the only MCU movies that I've only seen once, I held off on renting them since I assumed they'd be coming to Disney+ eventually.

 

[JD]

I finally figured out why Ever Anderson, the girl who plays Wendy in Peter Pan & Wendy looks so familiar, and it turns out there are two reasons, she was young Natasha in Black Widow in the Black Widow movie, and she's Mila Jovovich's and Paul WS Anderson's daughter and looks just like a younger version of her mother.

 

[Set Harth]

I had assumed all the preexisting Marvel titles were on it.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Not if there were any previous streaming agreements prior to Disney+'s creation (plus the whole complicated situation with Sony for the Holland films).

Same reason why a bunch of the Trek films left Paramount+.

 

[The Knappos]

It’s was a bit laughable in the UK. About 3 weeks after they finally got all the Sony movies on D+ UK, there was the change at the top at Disney and they took the Sony movies off. The only one there now is Far From Home.

 

[JD]

I don't think The Incredible Hulk is on there.

 

[JD]

What's the general opinion on the live action Dumbo? The trailer looks pretty good, and there were a lot of people I like involved, but I as a vegan and animal rights supporter I have kind of mixed feelings about a movie glorifying the circus. I have watched and loved movies and shows about stuff I'd usually be opposed to, like rodeos and farms, so that's not a total deal breaker for me if it's good enough.

 

[UssGlenn]

What's the general opinion on the live action Dumbo? The trailer looks pretty good, and there were a lot of people I like involved, but I as a vegan and animal rights supporter I have kind of mixed feelings about a movie glorifying the circus. I have watched and loved movies and shows about stuff I'd usually be opposed to, like rodeos and farms, so that's not a total deal breaker for me if it's good enough.

I actually haven't watched it yet, but I do know that the story of the original movie is covered in the first portion of the live action version, and then it keeps going, so it's sort of like a remake and sequel to the remake all in one.

 

[Rich Watson]

Going, going, gone...

https://deadline.com/2023/05/disney...ow-y-dollface-turner-hooch-pistol-1235372512/

My sympathies to anyone who thought that 'Willow' wasn't cancelled and just "on hold".

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Damn, that really sucks. Kind of mind boggling that Willow would be removed so quickly.

Also...

My sympathies to anyone who thought that 'Willow' wasn't cancelled and just "on hold".

Is that comment really necessary?

 

[Christopher]

Going, going, gone...

https://deadline.com/2023/05/disney...ow-y-dollface-turner-hooch-pistol-1235372512/

My sympathies to anyone who thought that 'Willow' wasn't cancelled and just "on hold".

Commentary from TV writers on Twitter is that this is being done as a vindictive move against the striking writers, because removing the shows from streaming means they won't get paid residuals for them. They were getting pennies' worth of residuals from streaming anyway, which is a large part of why they're striking, to try to get streamers to pay decent residuals like the networks. So this is just incredibly petty.

 

[Commander Troi]

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Ah, of course, retaliation for the strike. I should've guessed.

Incredibly petty indeed.

 

[wayoung]

I mean, maybe, but they're not hot shows/movies. More likely Disney is following in Zaslav's footsteps as Max is now on the path to profitability ahead of schedule after doing the same thing and taking the biggest PR hit for it.

Disney will have metrics showing nobody is subscribing to the services to watch these shows/movies at this point, and no one is keeping the services to watch those shows/movies. So they can generate more revenue by selling them to be hosted/aired on other services/channels/disc.

Fingers crossed they aren't permanently vaulting stuff for tax credits like WBD.

 

[M'rk son of Mogh]

This why I still buy physical media.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

I mean, maybe, but they're not hot shows/movies. More likely Disney is following in Zaslav's footsteps as Max is now on the path to profitability ahead of schedule after doing the same thing and taking the biggest PR hit for it.

Disney will have metrics showing nobody is subscribing to the services to watch these shows/movies at this point, and no one is keeping the services to watch those shows/movies. So they can generate more revenue by selling them to be hosted/aired on other services/channels/disc.

Then they'll be shocked, shocked when people start cancelling more and more as they drop more and more content.