Disney’s Direct-to-Consumer and International Operations has a new EVP Marketing and Operations, which will be responsible for being the leading content and brand marketing for Disney+. Jackal Group President Joe Earley has been picked to take the role and he will report to Rickey Strauss, who is the President of Content & Marketing for Disney+. […]
Last year, Disney announced that their new streaming service, Disney+ would see the return of the Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series and new live action series, The Mandalorian. However with no official launch date for Disney+ being announced, it wasn’t clear if these Star Wars shows would be available this year or at […]
Following last years cancellation of Marvel’s Luke Cage show on Netflix, there have been lots of speculation about why the shows were cancelled, who cancelled them and if the shows could return eventually on Disney+. Recently, Luke Cage actor, Mike Colter, spoke with ComicBook.com about the cancellation of the show: “It kinda did catch me off […]
Following on from the huge success of the first Deadpool movie, Fox had begun production on a new animated series based on the foul mouthed Marvel character. However the series never got going due to a disagreement with the creators and frustration from Donald Glover. Recently Deadpool’s co-creator Rob Liefeld spoke to Nerdist News, about […]
Disney have released a sneak peek video at their upcoming animated series, Gigantosaurus. This new series will be coming to Disney Junior and DisneyNow on January 18th and is expected to be included on Disney+ when it launches in late 2019. Four young dinosaurs Rocky, Bill, Tiny and Mazu explore a prehistoric world of adventure […]
Back in November, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced during a conference call that they are working on a new Star Wars show featuring Captain Cassian Andor from Rogue One for Disney+. According to Production Weekly, that production is scheduled to commence in October 2019. Very little is known about the series so far, we do […]
2018 has been one of the biggest years ever for Disney, with huge box office takings for movies with massive hits like Avengers: Infinity War, Incredibles 2, Black Panther and many more. Disney have dominated the box office, pulling in over $7 billion and 2019 should be even bigger for the company with the purchase […]
Disney’s CEO Bob Iger recently spoke with Jack Hough from Barrons, about the future of the new streaming service, Disney+ and how its a huge priority for the company. One of the big reasons Disney is taking it so seriously is how they view the world has changed and they need to keep up with […]
One of the biggest reasons Disney is refocusing its business on streaming, is how traditional TV viewing has changed and subscribers have been cutting the cord to go to other platforms like Netflix. Netflix currently has nearly 138 million subscribers worldwide, which includes 80 million international subscribers. With Disney set to launch their own service, […]
When Disney purchased Lucasfilm back in 2012, it not only brought Star Wars, it also obtained the character, Indiana Jones. Since then, they’ve built a new Indiana Jones themed bar at their Disney Springs resort in Walt Disney World and started work on a fifth movie, which is currently expected to be released in 2021. […]
Ever since the announcement of Disney’s new streaming service, Disney+, Marvel has always been a major selling point and in a recent interview with Variety on the Playback podcast with Kris Tapley. Marvel Studios Kevin Feige, spoke about how Disney+ is going to be part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. When asked whether or not […]
Disney’s new direct-to-consumer streaming service, Disney+ is set to launch in late 2019 and won’t be feature advertisements to begin with according to Walt Disney’s President of Advertising Sales & Sponsorships, Rita Ferro. In an interview with Beet, where she talking about Disney’s new advertising division, she has said the following about Disney+: “On the […]
On Christmas Day, director Jon Favreau gave Star Wars fans a small sneak peek of his upcoming Star Wars series, The Mandalorian, as he shared an image of the character IG-88, standing in front of a green screen. IG-88 is a bounty hunter who has appeared in “The Empire Strikes Back” and is an assassin […]
With Disney’s new live action movie, Mary Poppins Returns, hitting cinemas this weekend, many fans might be waiting till it’s available for streaming at home. While this movie might be a practically perfect movie to launch Disney’s new streaming service, Disney+ with, Mary Poppins Returns will be heading to Netflix first. This is the last […]
Recently I’ve shared some of my top movies that should be on Disney+ this time next year, including Disney movies, shows and family friendly movies. But there is one more collection of movies I’d like to see available on Disney’s new streaming service, 20th Century Fox. There is a massive back-catalog of movies in the Fox […]