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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 Snow on Wednesday March 13 2019, @07:09PM (4 children)
I'm too young to know that film. It it one of the racist Disney films?
(Score: 4, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday March 13 2019, @07:24PM (3 children)
Yes.
Then again, most of Disney's back catalogue is wrongthink now for one reason or other. "The Cat from Outer Space" would be panned for mansplaining. "Bambi" would take knocks for portraying heterosexual flirting as natural, without any LGBT representation. "The Smartest Man in the World" and "The Strongest Man in the World" would be rejected out of hand because men are not smart or strong.
It is a bit ironic that the discursive direction Disney has been taking as a company rather devalues the greater part of its assets and upends its brand's value proposition as "family friendly fare."
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 13 2019, @08:10PM (1 child)
No, as it did at the box office Bambi [wikipedia.org] will take knocks because it portrays hunting in a bad light.
I doubt Sunflower will be in Fantasia. Will Jungle Book be unedited? Pocahantas will still be offensively stereotypical. And I'd bet they'll run the edited version of Arabian Nights in Aladdin.
There was great plenty to be offended about in Disney's catalog that wasn't wrongthink as much as outright racism.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @09:52PM
Of course, "outright racism" is a kind of wrongthink too.
At least, it is nowadays.
I'm so old I remember the time when "outright racism" was mainstream and fully approved of by everyone who was anyone.
"But those days are gone, thank Deity", I hear you cry.
No, the pendulum is bound to swing back, just give it time.
Outright racism is not dead, but sleeping.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 13 2019, @08:28PM
There is another problem with Bambi. Actually the most oft cited problem. But it is easily remedied as we'll see . . .
The scene where . . .
This is easily fixed. Take the evil hunter's evil gun away. Hunters should be using firearms anyway. Notice how in ET they conveniently replaced the FIB agent's rifles with walkie talkies in the Digitally Remastered edition.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.