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After delisting Mulan from a potential theatrical run in June, Disney has firmed up its plans for its newest live-action remake. Starting September 4, Mulan will premiere exclusively on Disney+ in various territories, including the United States, Canada, and New Zealand, according to Disney CEO Bob Chapek.
Unlike other Disney+ streaming premieres, however, Mulan will launch with an extra price point on top of the service's $7/mo subscription rate. Paying Disney+ users in the US will have to fork over an additional $30 for what Chapek described as "premiere access,"
which likely equates to a temporary rental of the film instead of full-blown ownership a la platforms like iTunes and Amazon Video. Other territories' rates have not yet been confirmed. (Chapek took the opportunity to confirm that Disney+'s worldwide subscriber numbers are somewhere near 60.5 million.)[Update, 9:30pm ET: Disney has since confirmed that a $30 payment for Mulan will permanently unlock it in your Disney+ account, so long as you remain a paying subscriber.]
The beginning of the end of movie theaters?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by ledow on Thursday August 06 2020, @07:55AM (8 children)
"Disney has since confirmed that a $30 payment for Mulan will permanently unlock it in your Disney+ account, so long as you remain a paying subscriber."
Which is ridiculous, and the biggest problem I have with such subscription services. Just stopping paying shouldn't lose everything you "bought". Just the eligibility to access it. Pay again, and you should get back the library you always had. It's not costing them anything if you can't use it, it's just a bunch of bits on a disk somewhere among millions of others. When you want to stream it, of course there's a cost, but why do you lose eligibility to what you'd previously had, because one month you had a tight month and cut a non-essential?
That's just blatant profiteering.
If Steam had even a token subscription where that happened, then I would never have bought anything on that service. As it is, I can "not use" their services for years if I want, and then still have the same entitlements when I do restart. And it costs them money to provide that account, for no money in return, whereas Disney+ are being PAID all the time the account is in active use.
$30 + a constant ongoing subscription and you can still lose that forever because you had to pay bills.
It's to guilt/extort people into paying it... they'll sign up for the kids, the kids will want to watch that new movie, then they are required to keep paying forever if their kids liked it and want to rewatch it (as kids do). Don't let your account slip, or it's gone forever and you have to buy it all over again. So now is it cheaper to let it expire and buy it later (no, it's Disney!), or just keep paying the protection money?
Horrible business practice from a company that should really know better (but never has).
(Score: 2) by rigrig on Thursday August 06 2020, @09:08AM (3 children)
Also, next year they will be launching Disney++ (pronounced Disney DoublePlus) and new content will only be made available there.
Your previously "bought" Disney+ content won't be migrated though, so you'll have to keep paying that subscription as well.
No one remembers the singer.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 06 2020, @04:21PM (2 children)
Then one day the Disney+ servers will be turned off. And all the beautiful princesses will fall into a deep, deep sleep.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 07 2020, @04:34AM
... Then one day, Prince Piracy arrives and gives her a kiss. She then wakes up, and is promptly pimped out on a thousand servers where thousands more couriers wait to deliver her to eagerly waiting 30+ incels needing new material to jack it to.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday August 07 2020, @03:54PM
Only after Disney discovers a way to charge people all over again for stories which are decades upon decades old.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Thursday August 06 2020, @04:02PM (3 children)
It's a classic story. Big lovable guy, everyone likes him. Then one day someone talks him in to snorting a few lines of co-cash and he's hooked. Unfortunately, co-cash brings out a mean side to his personality, and an ever growing hunger for more co-cash means that soon he's screwing everyone over for his next hit. Next comes the lying, cheating, and stealing.....
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 06 2020, @04:24PM
...turning tricks in the parking lot. Eventually our hero finds himself trafficking underage girls to billionaire movie producers.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday August 06 2020, @05:32PM (1 child)
Is that the category-theoretical dual for cash?
Please explain how to turn the arrows around.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Friday August 07 2020, @02:42AM
Imagine cocaine only greener and twice as addictive for susceptible individuals..
Various flavors are used as legal tender around the world.