Sports fans got a closer look at Disney‘s plans for ESPN, a sports broadcasting powerhouse that’s transitioning from cable TV mainstay into a streaming service. On Thursday, Disney said it reached an agreement to add Southeastern Conference college football to its schedule beginning with the 2024 season. The conference, home to heavyweights Auburn, Alabama and …
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Disney’s plan for streaming Marvel’s Black Widow after it hits theaters May 7 remained a mystery Thursday, as the company completed its investor day without detailing any adjusted release plans for the movie or other Marvel flicks next year, like Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings and Eternals. The fogginess around Marvel releases means Disney, which has racked up …
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Disney Plus is raising its US price by $1 to an $8-a-month subscription starting in March, after Disney launched the streaming service in November 2019 to enormous popularity. In continental Europe, prices are going up by two euros to nine euros a month, and it will be making similar adjustments in other markets where Disney Plus is charged in local currencies. “These …
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You want to skip the ads on Hulu? There’s a Disney Bundle for that. The company said it would launch a new bundle that includes Disney Plus, ESPN Plus and a version of Hulu without commercials for $18.99. That’s $6 more than the $12.99 it charges for the bundle with the ad-based version of Hulu. The announcement was made during …
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Disney will stream some of its new movies on Disney Plus at no added cost instead of bringing them to theaters at all, the company said Thursday. But it remains unclear if Disney’s biggest-budget films — like its Marvel movies Black Widow, Shang Chi and Eternals — are destined to premiere in theaters exclusively for a period of time before they …
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Disney Plus grew to 86.8 million subscribers a little over a year after its launch in November 2019, Disney said. That’s an additional 13 million subscribers added in just a couple of months since late September, likely spurred by new rollouts in Latin America. And looking down the road to late 2024, Disney projected that Disney Plus will have between 230 million …
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Disney’s live-action remake of the 1998 animated film Mulan skipped a theatrical release in the US, being made available to stream on Disney Plus. Initially Disney‘s Mulan remake cost you an extra $30 on top of your new or existing subscription, but that period is almost over. As of today, Dec. 4, Mulan is free to all Disney Plus subscribers. See Disney Plus subscription options Disney’s live-action …
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Discovery, the cable programmer behind networks like Discovery Channel, Food Network, HGTV and TLC, will launch a reimagined streaming service called Discovery Plus in the US on Jan. 4 for $5 a month with commercials and $7 a month ad free, making it the latest traditional media company to rev up a rival to Netflix and Disney Plus. In addition, …
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Season 2 of The Mandalorian is in full swing on Disney Plus, with a new episode dropping Friday, and Google is letting you bring its hero home. You can download The Mandalorian AR Experience onto your 5G Pixel and some 5G Android phones, Google said Monday in a blog post. “The Mandalorian AR Experience puts you in the shoes of …
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Taylor Swift on Tuesday revealed that a behind-the-scenes special exploring songs from her latest album, Folklore, is coming to Disney Plus on Wednesday. The streaming service described the film, entitled Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions, as an “intimate concert” of the singer-songwriter’s record-breaking album. The film-album-concert is now officially available on Disney Plus, as of 12:01 a.m. PT (3:01 a.m. …
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