During today’s Walt Disney Company’s Quarterly Financial Results conference call, Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed a new bundle featuring: Disney+ ESPN+ Hulu (with Ads) This bundle will be available in the US for $12.99 a month. The bundle will be available from November 12th, when Disney+ launches. Will you be subscribing to all three products? […]
Since Disney purchased 21st Century Fox earlier this year, they’ve been reorganising their Television Studios division, which includes ABC, Freeform, Disney Channel, National Geographic, FX and Disney+, who each report to Dana Walden. Now that Disney has full control over Hulu, they’ve now finished the restructuring and have Craig Erwich, senior vice president of Scripted […]
Marvel has announced a special crossover episode featuring the Runaways and Cloak & Dagger, will be coming later this year in the third season of the Runaways, which will be coming to Hulu on December 18th. “It’s so fun being able to do something that revels in the Mighty Marvel Manner! Having these young heroes crossover […]
During Hulu’s TCA presentation, the streaming service announced that the Marvel’s Runaways will premiere its third season on December 13th with all 10 episodes. The third season see the Runaways frantically search for their captured friends Chase Stein, Gert Yorkes, and Karolina Dean. The kids go head to head with an unstoppable enemy who has […]
Hulu’s SVP of Originals Craig Erwich announced during his opening remarks of his speech at the Television Critics Association, that Disney+ will be available through Hulu, as a add-on, similar to how it offers Live TV and premium services such as Starz, HBO and CBS All Access. Not much else was confirmed during the event, […]
This weekend, Disney+ senior VP content Agnes Chu spoke at the “Produced By” Conference in a panel called “The Streamers: Meet The Buyers”. During the panel she said that the new streaming service will be centred around shows that the whole family can watch together and feature the Disney library, with a focus on its […]
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! […]
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 […]
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 […]