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: 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.