In this What’s On Disney Plus Podcast episode, Roger and James discuss the big Disney+ news of the week including Disney gaining full control over Hulu and how it will impact Disney+. With the Upfront event taking place in New York this past week, the guys discuss all the news coming out of that event […]
Shortly after it was announced that Disney now have control over Hulu, Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger spoke at the MoffettNathanson Media & Communications Summit in New York. During this Question and Answer session, he outlined some of the benefits of Hulu and how it will integrate with Disney+. One of the biggest ways is […]
During today’s Upfront event in New York, FX chief John Landgraf spoke about how FX is fitting within the Walt Disney Company. With today’s announcement of Disney gaining control of Hulu, it’s becoming very clear how Disney is organising its content, as when he was asked if FX will fit into the evolving plans for new […]
Disney and Comcast have just announced that Disney will assume full operational control of Hulu, effective immediately, in return for Disney and Comcast entering into a “put/call” agreement regarding NBCUniversal’s 33% ownership interest in Hulu. Under the put/call agreement, as early as January 2024, Comcast can require Disney to buy NBCUniversal’s interest in Hulu and […]
Today Hulu held its Hulu ‘19 Presentation at The Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden, where during its presentation, it announced two new Marvel live action series and the third season of The Runaways. Here are the official details: Marvel and Hulu Expand Partnership With Two New Live-Action Series The Spirits of Vengeance are coming! […]
In this What’s On Disney Plus Podcast episode, Roger and James discuss all of this weeks Disney+ news including: DisneyNature’s Dolphin Reef Coming To Disney+ Kevin Mayer Discusses Disney+ At APOS Comcast In Talks With Disney To Sell It’s Hulu Stake Disney+ Will Include Just 20% Of Netflix’s Library Survey Finds 23% Of Netflix Subscribers […]
This year, Disney has managed to increase its ownership share of Hulu from 30% to over 66%, following the purchase of 21st Century Fox and AT&T selling its shares back to Hulu. Which leaves Comcast as the other party involved in the streaming platform, with just over a 33% share. After Comcast’s last financial results […]
There are many questions about what content will be coming Disney+, ever since the official reveal in November 2018, we’ve known there are 5 key core brands at the heart of the streaming service. Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic, Pixar and Disney. And during the recent Investors Day event, Disney revealed lots of details on […]
Just after last weeks Disney Investor Call Event, CEO Bob Iger spoke with CNBC about the upcoming streaming service, Disney+, where he revealed that the only reason why purchased 21st Century Fox was because of their plans for Hulu and Disney+. During the interview he said: “The opportunity to buy Fox first came up later […]
One of Marvel’s current television shows, The Gifted, has not been renewed for a third season by Fox Entertainment (the new Fox spin-off company that Disney doesn’t own, which runs the Fox Channel and Fox News). The show has been made by 21st Century Fox and while it wasn’t a big ratings winner, it was […]
Hulu has announced it has purchased the 10% minority stake from AT&T (WarnerMedia), for $1.43 billion. Disney already held a 60% stake in Hulu following their purchase of 21st Century Fox. Leaving Comcast with the other 30% percent, with the additional 10% purchase, that looks to have increased Disney’s ownership up to over 66%. The […]
Disney+ hasn’t even launched yet but it’s already lost one of its exclusive shows, the reboot of High Fidelity, which will be moving to Disney’s other streaming platform, Hulu. The reason for this is because as the series has been going through production, the series was becoming more mature, which meant it no longer fitted […]
This past week, Fox Released a new trailer for X-Men: Dark Phoenix Movie, which is due to be released this summer in cinemas, which will be after the Disney purchase is complete, but there is also another Marvel movie currently under production by Fox, The New Mutants. However The New Mutants has suffered major problems, […]
21st Century Fox is apparently working on a new series based on the classic family film, The Sandlot, with the original cast returning, according to Slash/Film. David Mickey Evans, the director of the original Sandlot movie, recently appeared appeared on the The Rain Delay, podcast and said that “He has sold a pitch for a […]
With Disney’s purchase of Fox almost complete, Disney is apparently in talks with AT&T to purchase the 10% stake it owns in Hulu, according to Variety. AT&T obtained its share in Hulu when it purchased WarnerMedia, which is also getting ready to launch its own streaming service later this year featuring content from Warner Brothers […]