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Disney has revealed their opening cache of content for their upcoming streaming service Disney+ and revealed details on the launch date, pricing and how this streaming service will operate.
How Much Will Disney+ Cost?
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Disney+ will also be ad-free and allow members to download content to be able to watch without using internet or data.
What Content Will Be Available?
Due to their ever-growing empire, Disney divided their presentation up into their subsidiary divisions each presenting what content their studio will have on Disney+ which will all help make the service a must-have in viewer subscriptions.
Fox Merger Content
Finallyacquiring 21st Century Fox, Disney’s first pitch was advertising the fact that Disney+ will have family-friendlyFoxmovies and franchises that the former rival studio had already produced. This will include Box Office hits likeAvatar, Home Alone,andBohemian Rhapsody,as well as TV favorites likeThe Simpsonswhich were given a mini fourth-wall skit with the family announcing their pleasure to be part of the Disney family.
Marvel Studios was the first studio to present and with the anticipation at fever pitch for the upcomingAvengers: Endgame, fans were treated to a selection of original programming coming to the service.Falcon and the Winter Soldierwas the only series to reveala logo, but other previously announced programming includesWandaVision, a series focussing on Loki and a series focusing on Hawkeye. Not much is known about theWhat-Ifseries, but Hayley Atwell will apparently be reprising her role as Agent Carter (in animated form), and gains the super soldier serum in this alternate scenario.
These shows were also revealed to be definitively included in theMarvel Cinematic Universeand will further the stories of the featured characters.
The 21 movies that currently make up the Marvel Cinematic Universe will also be available on Disney+ as well as the upcomingAvengers: Endgameand eventually all Marvel movies acquired from Fox, except theDeadpoolfilms.
The only original content talked about by Lucasfilm head Kathleen Kennedy were the upcoming showsThe Mandalorian, the revival of the animated seriesStar Wars: The Clone Warsand the upcoming Cassian Andor and K2SO series focusing on the two characters from 2016’sRogue One: A Star Wars Storyand created by the creators ofThe Americans.
Meanwhile all the Star Wars movies were announced as eventually available throughout the first year ofDisney+.
Disney Animation & Live-Action
For the Disney brand’s original studio, they announced that the studio was taking “a lot of their classics” out of the vault to be made available on the service.
With regards to original content, Disney will be releasing a documentary about the making ofFrozen IIentitledInto the Unknownwhich was also stated to be a title of a song in the upcoming movie scheduled for release this December.
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To help promote the upcoming string of original live-action movies Disney+will feature, Jon Favreau was brought on stage to promote the upcoming live-actionLion Kingmovie as five upcoming original movies were announced to premiere with more smaller movies not deemed big enough for the cinemas also in the works.
These announced movies are:
Pixar spent their section of the presentation mainly promoting the upcomingToy Story 4by announcing two spin-off shorts directly from the movie.
The first is a series of shorts starring new character Forky where he seeks knowledge of basic everyday experiences.
The other spin-off will be aToy Story 4prequel short starring Bo Peep and will show what happened to her prior to the events of the movie.
Disney Channel
As added nostalgia, the Disney Channel executives announced another spin-off movie for one of their animated series,Phineas and Ferb, which will have a new movie exclusive to the streaming service, and will feature the titular duo on a space exploration adventure.
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Also new to the service, will beHigh School Musical: The Musical – The Seriesstated as a reality series about a cast of students who attend the school the original movie was filmed in and perform songs from the movies as well as new material.
Their backlog of Disney Channel programming, includingLizzie McGuire,Hannah Montana, andThe Suite Life Of Zach & Cody,will also be available as full series content.
National Geographic
National Geographic also had a presentation slot heavily focusing on a new documentary presented by Jeff Goldblum as well as all current and previous documentaries to have aired on the channel.
Projections
By the end of the first year of Disney+, there is expected to be 35+ original content released on the service with new content being released weekly, 7,500+ previous episodes of programming both off air and currently on air and 500+ previous movies both recently released and backlogged.
