Before Disney purchased 20th Century Fox in 2019, Hulu was owned by Comcast (30%), Fox (30%), Disney (30%) and Warner Brothers (10%). So when Disney brought 20th Century Fox, it acquired an additional 30% stake in Hulu, resulting it Disney owning 60% of the streaming service, which shifted the balance within the streaming company. A […]
Before Disney+ launched, Disney started pulling back from streaming services like Netflix in control of its content to have it available exclusively on its streaming services like Hulu and Disney+. With Disney CEO Bob Iger once saying that licensing its movies and shows to Netflix as “basically selling nuclear weapons technology to a Third World […]
Disney’s Searchlight Pictures has released the teaser trailer for the upcoming film, “Poor Things”, which has been made by filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone. “Poor Things” is the incredible tale and fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter […]
This summer, Disney is bringing “The Haunted Mansion” is cinemas around the world, which the classic theme park attraction has inspired. The film is about a woman and her son who enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters. The film’s producers are Dan Lin and Jonathan […]
Searchlight Pictures’ upcoming film, “Flamin’ Hot”, will be opening up at the upcoming Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, which is taking place at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood at 7 pm on Wednesday, 31st May 2023. “Flamin’ Hot,” tells the story of Richard Montañez, the Frito Lay janitor who channelled his Mexican American […]
In the past year, Jamie Lee Curtis has spoken at film premieres and on social about trying to get a sequel to the 2003 version of “Freaky Friday”, but now according to an article in New York Times, that was celebrating the 20th anniversary of the film, Disney is now officially developing the project.The 2003 […]
Filming on the upcoming Marvel Studios Disney+ series “Daredevil: Born Again” has been suspended for the week following a targeted picketing campaign by the Writers Guild Of America, which has seen filming in New York disrupted earlier in the week. The new Disney+ series will see some of the actors from the Netflix shows returning, […]
In this What’s On Disney Plus Podcast episode, Roger discusses some of today’s biggest Disney+ news, including all the news that came out of this week’s Disney’s quarterly investors call, which includes: Disney To Launch Single App In The US With Disney+ & Hulu Disney+ To Launch Ad-Tier In Europe Disney+ Loses Another 4 Million […]
Disney has released the first trailer for the upcoming Searchlight Pictures series, “The Full Monty”, which is going to be released on Hulu and FX in the United States and on Disney+ in the United Kingdom and Ireland on June 14th 2023. Expect the series to also be released on Disney+ around the world. Taking […]
It’s Thursday, and today, Disney+ subscribers in Australia and New Zealand have received the final two episodes from the second season of “Single Drunk Female”. With a year and a half of sobriety under her belt, Samantha Fink finally feels like she has a life worth celebrating. However, Sam quickly learns that sometimes life has […]
It’s finally happening. Disney CEO Bob Iger has announced plans to bring together its streaming services in the United States under one app, bringing Hulu, Disney+ and ESPN+ content all together to offer subscribers a better experience but it also comes with many business benefits. The details of how all of this will work are […]
During today’s quarterly financial results conference call, Disney’s CFO Christine McCarthy announced that it would be removing some programming from its streaming platforms. Disney is “in the process of reviewing the content on our DTC services to align with the strategic changes in our approach to content curation” and “will be removing certain content from […]
During today’s quarterly financial results call, Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed that the ad-supported tier (Disney+ Basic) will launch in Europe by the end of 2023. The ad-supported tier launched in the United States in December 2022, and last year, it was revealed that Disney+ would be rolling out an advertising tier internationally in 2023. […]
During Disney’s quarterly results, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that in the United States, they will be launching a single app, which will incorporate Hulu content into Disney+. Each app will still be available individually, and this might be a way around Disney getting ready to bring together Hulu and Disney+, until Disney sorts out […]
Today, the Walt Disney Company has released its latest quarterly results for the fiscal second quarter 2023, and that means we get an updated look at how many subscribers Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ have. This gives us a clear indication of how the apps are doing, especially with growth or decline in subscriber numbers. These […]