Disney’s future streaming service will challenge Netflix, the reigning streaming champ, with lower prices, CEO Bob Iger said in an earnings call earlier this week. In August, Disney announced its plans to pull movies like “Moana” from Netflix and instead stream them along with future films like the sequel to “Frozen” on its own service, …
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Now playing: Watch this: Star Wars and Marvel heading to Disney’s new video service 1:14 Get your fill of Marvel movies on Netflix now. Starting in 2019, the only place you’ll be able to stream new Marvel or Star Wars movies will be Disney‘s own streaming service. Disney CEO Bob Iger confirmed the two hit film series will be exclusive …
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Now playing: Watch this: Disney cuts the cord with Netflix 1:43 If your heart plummeted like mine did on Tuesday when Disney announced it would be creating its own streaming service and pulling its content from Netflix, you might be able to pick it up off the floor. According to a Reuters report, Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos says …
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Now playing: Watch this: Disney cuts the cord with Netflix 1:43 “Moana” and other Disney films currently streaming on Netflix won’t be there after 2018, according to the Walt Disney Company. Disney announced Tuesday that it will launch its own subscription service in 2019 that will become the new home to films from Walt Disney Studios, Pixar and others under …
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VR is hard for some people to grasp. It’s not necessarily hard to get into, but it’s pretty hard to buy into. And not (just) because of the price, but because VR’s biggest problem is that you aren’t hyped about it — and you can’t be an evangelist about it — until you try it. But sometimes, you find that …
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Director James Gunn has confirmed that his Marvel movie “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” will be the first 4K Blu-ray released by Disney. The director indicated in April that he was lobbying Disney to release the film with the extended color and contrast that the format allows. “LIGHT and COLOR are such important elements of ‘Vol. 2’s’ story, and …
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A man who allegedly uploaded a copy of the Marvel movie “Deadpool” to his Facebook page a week after it hit theaters was charged in California Tuesday. Twenty-one-year-old Trevon Maurice Franklin from Fresno, California allegedly uploaded the movie in February 2016 under the name “Tre-Von M. King.” Prosecutors say the film was watched 5 million times in the two days …
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If you like wearing things on your head, 2017 is looking like a good year. Toy Fair is here in New York this weekend, and with it comes a taste of the geek toys of the year. At Hasbro’s preview event, the most notable headgear was a Guardians of the Galaxy high-end Star-Lord helmet. It won’t be out in time …
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Fans eagerly awaiting the arrival of Marvel’s “The Defenders” on Netflix have some new tidbits to pore over in this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly, which lands Friday. The cover shot, released Thursday, shows Charlie Cox (Matt Murdock/”Daredevil“), Mike Colter (“Luke Cage“), Krysten Ritter (“Jessica Jones“) and Finn Jones (Danny Rand from “Iron Fist”) on top of a taxi in …
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A spin-off from “Agents of SHIELD” is shooting onto the Web. “Slingshot” will debut as online mini-episodes featuring several characters from ABC‘s show based on Marvel comics. Natalia Cordova-Buckley takes the lead as Elena “Yo-Yo” Rodriguez, a super-speedy Inhuman who comes into conflict with SHIELD in the spin-off. It’s set shortly before the beginning of series four of “Agents of …
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