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

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, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 06 2020, @04:21PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 06 2020, @04:21PM (#1032308)

    Then one day the Disney+ servers will be turned off. And all the beautiful princesses will fall into a deep, deep sleep.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 07 2020, @04:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 07 2020, @04:34AM (#1032727)

    ... 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

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Friday August 07 2020, @03:54PM (#1032956) Journal

    Only after Disney discovers a way to charge people all over again for stories which are decades upon decades old.

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