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Mulan Skips US Theaters, Will Debut on Disney+ Sept 4—for an Extra $30

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday August 06 2020, @06:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the cake-eaters dept.

Freeman writes:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/08/mulan-skips-us-theaters-will-debut-on-disney-sept-4-for-an-extra-30/

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?

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 06 2020, @03:19PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 06 2020, @03:19PM (#1032279)

    Is this a new Mulan, not the one from 1998? That one already stomped hard on the "woman does stuff men don't allow her to do" angle. The original Chinese story's message was doing your duty for your family, and that in battle you don't have time to make a distinction between male and female.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by takyon on Thursday August 06 2020, @05:02PM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Thursday August 06 2020, @05:02PM (#1032331) Journal

    https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51707188 [bbc.com]

    It has been modified for the #MeToo era, because you can't have romance between a boss and a subordinate anymore.

    The talking dragon and other aspects have been removed/changed to make it more palatable for the Chinese market.

    Huns aren't the enemy AFAIK which would solve this problem:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulan_(1998_film)#Controversy_in_Turkey [wikipedia.org]

    The Turkish nationalist Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) protested the film's release in Turkey in January 1999 and called for screenings within Turkey to end due to its negative portrayal of the Xiongnu (who are considered historical ancestors to the Turks). MHP deputy Nazif Okumuş stated regarding the film, "From start to finish, this animated film distorts and blackens the history of the Turks by showing the Huns [Xiongnu] as bad and the Chinese as peace-lovers."

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