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Disney's new streaming service will be called Disney+ and launch in late 2019, CEO Bob Iger announced on the company's earnings call Thursday.
The company announced in August 2017 it would pull all its movies from Netflix in 2019, and start its own streaming offering for its past titles. Disney also purchased Fox for $71.3 billion in cash and stock, further bolstering its library.
The service will also feature new, original shows and movies, including original Marvel and Star Wars series. Marvel fan favorite character Loki, played by Tom Hiddleston, will get an original series on the Disney+ service. A prequel series to Star Wars movie "Rogue One" about the character Cassian Andor, portrayed by Diego Luna, will also call the service home.
Are these streaming services the second coming of Cable?
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Saturday November 10 2018, @12:09AM (3 children)
Which Disney rules will be broken on disney+?
no smoking, skewering or beheading [bustle.com]?
Or just the R*rating [cbr.com] ban?
*US R rating, seems to be equivalent to NC17+ or MA in other countries. So no sex, but lots of violence and death. Yay for sensible ratings. Can't have children seeing sex, death and destruction are far better entertainment!
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by schad on Saturday November 10 2018, @02:14AM (2 children)
Your understanding of US movie ratings is incorrect. There can indeed be sex scenes in R-rated movies. They can even be quite graphic.
Perhaps what you're thinking is that any movie in the US with nudity will get an automatic R rating, but movies with quite a lot of violence may be only PG-13 (the rating immediately below R). This one is absolutely true. I don't think it's necessarily true, but as a practical matter, it seems that no movie producer wants to go to the effort to figure out what level of nudity the MPAA would consider acceptable for a PG-13 rating, so it may as well be.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Saturday November 10 2018, @05:43AM (1 child)
As no Disney movie is R, no Disney movie will have any sex. But, as is evidenced by Marvel and many cartoons, there is/will be lots of vuolence
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by schad on Saturday November 10 2018, @08:00PM
It's possible that a reasonable defense of your position can be made, but you need to do a lot more research before you can make it. Just about every factual statement you've made has been incorrect, usually obviously so. For example:
This is false. Disney has released, through its wholly-owned and directly-controlled subsidiary studios, plenty of R-rated films, including some quite famous ones (such as Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill). Disney literally created a studio -- Touchstone Pictures -- for the specific purpose of releasing movies deemed too mature for its "Disney-branded" studios.