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I figured this was as good a place to post this as any. There is no real news here because we already know that Sony reached a deal for Disney to stream some of the Spider-Man films. But I thought the ad was funny. I ran across this ad for Disney+ on Facebook. Notice at what movie the text...

Yes, and even more importantly, it is now the new restoration. It looks great even in HD and is much superior to the previous version.

@Josh Steinberg is absolutely right. The reason that Disney selected November 12 as "Disney+ Day" with all the promotions this week is because it is the anniversary of the service's launch in 2019. The third year begins on Friday. In regards to the IMAX framing, the 2017 live-action version...

I'm not sure why Disney has to make a deal with IMAX to stream the films in expanded aspect ratio. Yes, IMAX cameras were used to make them, but Disney owns the films and can do with them whatever they like. I do not believe that the use of IMAX cameras gives IMAX cooperation any rights to the...

That worked. I've never had to do that before. Thank you!

Thanks. How do you reboot a Roku? Do you mean unplugging it and plugging it back in or something else?

Is anyone else having problems getting Disney+ to load tonight? I'm trying to get the newest episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier to play via my Roku. I got it to work right after midnight, but the subtitles came on for some reason. So I had to exit the app and go into Roku settings...

Yes. I hadn't thought about the renewal deadline for one-year subscriptions approaching because my family got the three-year deal. But you are absolutely right, and that's a great point. The Baby Yoda Show will probably run through December sometime. I expect WandaVision to follow when that...

Nope, not happening. The trades have confirmed that out is going to be included in the regular subscription price. I think Disney+ wants to use it more to entice new subscribers than to charge more to existing ones.

Honestly, I don't think it matters. With the exit of Soul to Disney+, WW84 is the last tentpole left standing this year. Croods and News of the World are both Universal, which means they'll want to do their 17-day window thing and only AMC would agree to play those. I just don't see how Wonder...

No and no. They told one of the trades (Deadline maybe?) that they will not reopen for one movie. They don't think it's worth reopening until there is a slate of new studio films that are going to come out. If Wonder Woman is the only big tentpole at Christmas, which it looks like it is...

Disney hasn't said anything officially, but Lin-Manuel Miranda already indicated that he wouldn't be opposed to that when he sold it to them. There is already a "clean" version of the cast album, so I assume it will probably match that. Especially since they are putting the Disney castle logo...

I wouldn't say "numerous" swear words. Three or four F-words (one of which the show already self-censors as a joke) and a couple "shits." It's not going to be extremely different. I would expect it to be similar to what is already available on the clean version of the cast album. Is every...

I just saw Disney+ dropped a trailer on social media promoting some of their new releases for February. It includes some spoiler-heavy clips from the ending of Toy Story 4, which is uploading to Disney+ on Friday. If anyone has been waiting for Disney+ to get it to watch Toy Story 4, I...

Sorry to hear about that Adam -- get better soon! FYI, the final Forky short drops this Friday. They've been dropping them on a weekly schedule like their other series, which in this case has been a little unsatisfying because it's about 3 minutes or so a week. While I understand the desire...

That's still irrelevant. If Disney thinks that putting a Bluth movie that they own on Disney+ will be an asset to Disney+, then they'll do it. They don't care at this point what the history was. It's a piece of content that they can exploit. Aside from Song of the South, when have you ever...

As Jack noted, Thumbelina is already there. Whatever bruised feelings there may be on Bluth's part are totally irrelevant. If Disney owns the license to a film he made -- and, through Fox, they have several of them -- they can put it on their service. They don't care what he thinks. John...

The last time I checked, Anastasia was still on Netflix. Admittedly, this was a while ago -- since I have the Blu-ray, I never watch it on streaming, I only noticed it while browsing -- but I would imagine that Disney has to wait out the term of Netflix's license for it before they can add it...

I think The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is being targeted for fall 2020, so that would be first. I'm not sure where I read that though so wouldn't swear to it. I do know it's shooting now. WanaVision and Loki both feed into Doctor Strange 2, so they have to come out before that, and the...

Coco and Incredibles 2 are still on Netflix, so I think Disney has to wait until their rights under the previous deal expire before those titles can be ported over. Obviously Toy Story 4 being a brand new title, they want to hold it back for a few months in order to sell Blu-rays of it first...

Then I stand corrected. :)

I agree. But I think, if you paid for Disney+ monthly and Hulu monthly, it would still be more than $12.99 total. So whether ESPN is there or not, that price is still a bargain whether or not you used ESPN.

Yeah, I agree with you, although I guess they are prioritizing getting people to sign up for Disney+ over buying the disc. At least maybe the disc will have some bonus features that don't get included on Disney+ for little Kevin to watch? Or maybe Disney+ will include those too and truly be a...

The networks and studios are not categorically opposed to airing content from other providers. However, they do often work with their own sister companies. All of this is strictly theoretical of course. I agree with you that I don't see Hulu changing its model drastically in the short term...

They did. But the streaming landscape is different. We know that Warner Bros. and Universal are about to launch their own streaming services, and CBS already has one. The other studios who own content currently being licensed to Hulu for next-day uploads might want to redirect their shows to...

The difference between Fantasia and Dumbo is that the sequence with the crows is a huge part of the plot of that film. I don't understand how they can edit that sequence to remove the crows and have the rest of the scene still make sense.

I don't understand this either for a couple reasons. First, that's the scene where we see Dumbo fly for the first time, and the crows are an essential part of the plot in that section. I'm not sure how you could edit them out and have the scene still make sense. Secondly, I have Dumbo on...

Another thought I had: Disney hasn't really been promoting it because they don't really need another animation studio, but the Fox acquisition also gives them Blue Sky (home of the Ice Age and Rio franchises, plus Robots, Epic and The Peanuts Movie.) Deadline said in an article around the time...

As far as I am concerned, it is a computer-generated animated remake of the original film -- admittedly which was made with the intention of it looking as photorealistic as possible, but it's still CGI. There aren't any live actors in it because it's all animals, so unlike The Jungle Book...

Thank you @Jeff Adkins for taking the time and making the effort to type this out. Looking over the lists, it reinforces to me how much of this content I actually own on disc, so the appeal of Disney+ for me will largely be the new and original content. Interestingly, after Disney declined to...