Disney's Streaming Services: Disney+ (and Hulu, ESPN+, Star, & hotstar)

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DCBaker

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"After a bidding war, ABC Signature has secured exclusive TV rights to the extraordinary story of the 2021 football team from the California School for the Deaf in Riverside, CA.

ABC Signature and Disney Branded Television are developing the untitled project for Disney+. Oscar winner Troy Kotsur (CODA) will play the team’s coach and executive produce the project with his CODA co-star Marlee Matlin. Ron Shelton (Bull Durham) is attached to direct the pilot and executive produce, as well as write the pilot along with Ben Shelton (Candy Jar) who will write and executive produce.

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Kevin Falls (The West Wing, Pitch) will executive produce and serve as showrunner.

The studio will partner with the school and the California Department of Education to tell the story of the team’s historical undefeated season and how it earned a spot in the California State Championship game for the first time in school history. Historically a team that had never experienced anything close to a winning season, they went undefeated all the way to the state title game in their magical season. Playing mostly hearing teams, the Cubs passed and ran through their league surprising everyone but themselves. Their success captured the hearts of the nation, leading to their captains being on the field during the coin flip at Super Bowl LVI in February of this year."

deadline.com

Oscar Winner Troy Kotsur To Star In TV Series About California School For The Deaf Football Team In Works At Disney+

ABC Signature Secures Rights To California School Of The Deaf Football Team; Oscar Winner Troy Kotsur Attached To Star
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J4546

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I agree, disney acquiring ghibli would be great content for d+, and I could see one of the major characters being kinda like an unofficial princess and given a cool land in the Japanese disneyland. They are already building a ghibli themed park in Japan but it doesn't have rides, it's a peaceful walk-through experience. Keep it that way imo but give DL something big and unique and fantastic, replace toontown/IASW area and go nuts or maybe build on the expansion area like where they built GE in disneyland California but with a ghibli theme.

In another universe, disney already owned ghibli and instead of a fantasy springs expansion at disneysea, its a ghibli springs expansion
 
brb1006

brb1006

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J4546 said:
I agree, disney acquiring ghibli would be great content for d+, and I could see one of the major characters being kinda like an unofficial princess and given a cool land in the Japanese disneyland. They are already building a ghibli themed park in Japan but it doesn't have rides, it's a peaceful walk-through experience. Keep it that way imo but give DL something big and unique and fantastic, replace toontown/IASW area and go nuts or maybe build on the expansion area like where they built GE in disneyland California but with a ghibli theme.

In another universe, disney already owned ghibli and instead of a fantasy springs expansion at disneysea, its a ghibli springs expansion
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Not sure Miyazaki is a fan of turning his characters into an unofficial Disney Princess.
 
Crossfire

Crossfire

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J4546 said:
I agree, disney acquiring ghibli would be great content for d+, and I could see one of the major characters being kinda like an unofficial princess and given a cool land in the Japanese disneyland. They are already building a ghibli themed park in Japan but it doesn't have rides, it's a peaceful walk-through experience. Keep it that way imo but give DL something big and unique and fantastic, replace toontown/IASW area and go nuts or maybe build on the expansion area like where they built GE in disneyland California but with a ghibli theme.

In another universe, disney already owned ghibli and instead of a fantasy springs expansion at disneysea, its a ghibli springs expansion
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I don't think Disney should acquire Ghibli at all, they should just get the international and domestic streaming liscenses.
 
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DCBaker

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Disney unveiled a new pricing structure that incorporates an advertising-supported Disney+ as part of an effort to make its streaming business profitable.

Starting Dec. 8 in the U.S., Disney+ with commercials will be $7.99 per month — currently the price of Disney+ without ads. The price of ad-free Disney+ will rise 38% to $10.99 — a $3 per month increase.

The price of Hulu without ads will rise by $2 per month, from $12.99 to $14.99, effective as of Oct. 10. Hulu with ads will go up by $1 per month, rising from $6.99 to $7.99.

www.cnbc.com

Disney raises streaming prices after services post big operating loss

Disney is unveiling a brand new pricing structure to incorporate its ad-supported Disney+ service.
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5thGenTexan

5thGenTexan

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What does "with ads" mean? We just got Paramount+ and I decided on the option with ads for $4.99. For movie, there is an ad before the movie starts, but thats all. Nothing during the movie. TV shows have ads here and there but nothing bothersome.
So... Movies? No ads?
TV Shows that are shown like on Disney Channel or Disney Junior? Ads here and there?
Orginal shows on Disney+? Will they be like movies or previously shown programing on the channels?
 
CJR

CJR

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If it's anything like Hulu's ads, I'm not excited for it. Feels like the amount of time spent on ads has grown over the years, as well as the volume. We mute them when we can.
 
Disney Irish

Disney Irish

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CJR said:
If it's anything like Hulu's ads, I'm not excited for it. Feels like the amount of time spent on ads has grown over the years, as well as the volume. We mute them when we can.
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Welcome to cord cutting, all the new streaming smell but with the same old television features.
 
Disney Irish

Disney Irish

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5thGenTexan said:
What does "with ads" mean? We just got Paramount+ and I decided on the option with ads for $4.99. For movie, there is an ad before the movie starts, but thats all. Nothing during the movie. TV shows have ads here and there but nothing bothersome.
So... Movies? No ads?
TV Shows that are shown like on Disney Channel or Disney Junior? Ads here and there?
Orginal shows on Disney+? Will they be like movies or previously shown programing on the channels?
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It'll be very similar to how Hulu does their ads now.
 
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doctornick

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5thGenTexan said:
What does "with ads" mean? We just got Paramount+ and I decided on the option with ads for $4.99. For movie, there is an ad before the movie starts, but thats all. Nothing during the movie. TV shows have ads here and there but nothing bothersome.
So... Movies? No ads?
TV Shows that are shown like on Disney Channel or Disney Junior? Ads here and there?
Orginal shows on Disney+? Will they be like movies or previously shown programing on the channels?
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I forget the numbers but they said something like 1-2 minutes of ads per hour. So for a show, likely just ads at the start, for a movie probably ads in the beginning and then some in the middle. They also specifically said they’d have less as time on D+ than they do on Hulu.

So it’s better than regular TV but still potentially annoying for those who hate ads.

I’m very curious to see how it breaks down when people have the choice. I think there’s going to be a lot of subscribers who will prefer to keep the same cost and just accept the ads.
 
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doctornick

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Disney Irish said:
Disney has just surpassed Netflix for subs across all of its streaming services:

www.reuters.com

Disney tops Netflix on streaming subscribers, sets higher prices

Walt Disney Co edged past Netflix Inc with a total of 221 million streaming customers and announced it will increase prices for customers who want to watch Disney+ or Hulu without commercials.
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Kinda misleading though. Disney adds up the subs for three different services together. Disney+ alone had 152M subs, still well short of Netflix’s 221M subs. To be fair, D+ still hasn’t rolled in as many countries yet as Netflix has so there’s growth opportunities just from that.
 
Disney Irish

Disney Irish

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doctornick said:
Kinda misleading though. Disney adds up the subs for three different services together. Disney+ alone had 152M subs, still well short of Netflix’s 221M subs. To be fair, D+ still hasn’t rolled in as many countries yet as Netflix has so there’s growth opportunities just from that.
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And this is why I said "Disney has just surpassed Netflix for subs across all of its streaming services"

And really it doesn't matter, all are subs of Disney streaming under DTC. If Netflix has multiple services they would do the same thing.
 

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