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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
At the Television Critics Association press tour, Hulu announced four new Marvel Television animated series are on the way, including “Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K.,” “Marvel’s Hit Monkey,” “Marvel’s Tigra & Dazzler Show,” and “Marvel’s Howard the Duck.” The series will all lead into a special animated event for Hulu, “Marvel’s The Offenders.” In “Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K.,” M.O.D.O.K, an egomaniacal […]
Last year Bob Iger spoke about the possibility of Disney bundling together their streaming services, Disney+, ESPN+ and Hulu. During this weeks quarterly financial investors call, Bob Iger spoke once again about the plan to offer discounts and bundles saying: But what we said when we decided to launch ESPN+ and Disney+ is that rather […]
While we have a while to wait until Disney+ launches, Disney’s other streaming service, Hulu, has been trying to work out ways of reducing costs, following recent announcements of how much Hulu is costing Disney. Recently Hulu Announced it was reducing the cost of its lowest subscription package to encourage more subscribers and now its […]
While Disney+ isn’t due to launch until later in 2019, Disney’s other streaming platform, Hulu, has been making changes to compete with the competition such as Netflix and Amazon. Recently Netflix announced it was putting the price of its subscription prices and so today, Hulu announced some changes to their pricing options, which start from […]
Disney+ is set to have even more competition in the streaming service as NBC Universal / Comcast have announced that their new streaming platform will launch in early 2020, just months after Disney+ is set to launch. There will however be a major difference in how NBC Universal is going to be running their platform, […]
With Disney set to take over a further 30% stake of Hulu when it completes its purchase of 21st Century Fox, rising its control of the streaming network to 60%. It is now looking to gain more control as AT&T have said its considering selling WarnerMedia’s 10% stake in Hulu, which is valued as much […]
With Disney set to run three separate streaming platforms, ESPN+, Hulu and Disney+, it was revealed by Disney CEO Bob Iger during a conference call during the summer that customers may be offered a discounted bundle. Some have questioned why Disney doesn’t run one single streaming network, which Bob Iger said “So rather than one, […]