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Disney’s forthcoming streaming service will kill the Disney Vault
It looks like the Disney Vault is dead. For years, Disney relied on limited-time releases of its films on DVD and Blu-ray to encourage sales. The strategy worked. Consumers snapped up the titles to build out their home video collections. But in more recent years, DVDs have given way to streaming. For Disney, that’s an opportunity to resell its movie library all over again — this time, by way of subscription. At a shareholder meeting this week, Disney CEO Bob Iger announced the company’s forthcoming Disney+ streaming service would soon include the “entire Disney motion picture library.”
He clarified that this meant it would house the movies that were previously locked up in the Disney Vault, Polygon reported on Thursday, following the meeting.
[...]Iger additionally noted that new films would arrive on Disney+ within a year of their release to theaters, and that films Disney is releasing this year — like Captain Marvel — will be included on the service, as well.
Disney+ will launch later this year, Iger also confirmed. But no exact date has been announced.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Wednesday March 13 2019, @05:19PM (2 children)
I doubt Mr. Iger actually meant this. The TechCrunch article implies that Disney+ will exclude movies that aren't even in the "Vault" rotation, such as a certain movie on which the Splash Mountain ride at Disney parks was based.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @07:45PM (1 child)
And for those of us who have no idea on which movie that particular amusement park ride was based, that would be...?
Offhand, I can't think of any movie that prominently features logs falling to water, never mind a Disney movie. Are you, perhaps, thinking of The Log Driver's Waltz [youtube.com]?
(Score: 3, Informative) by schad on Wednesday March 13 2019, @07:51PM
It's Song of the South [wikipedia.org].