Mulan has twice the budget of a typical Netflix show but Netflix spends a lot more than Disney. Last years budget expenditures for streamers:
https://observer.com/2019/10/netflix-disney-apple-amazon-hbo-max-peacock-content-budgets/
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'Mulan' to Be Available as $30 In-App Purchase in Disney+ App on Apple Platforms
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I don’t watch a lot of movies, so this isn’t for me, but my mom used to go once a week before COVID. This will be a good option for giving her a way to have a nice treat without having to leave the house. $30 seems like a good sweet spot too — if you bring your own snacks and one other person, you’ve already come out ahead vs a movie theater with concessions.
That’s the budget for Disney+. Mulan wasn’t intended to be a Disney+ film. Disney spends nearly twice as much as Netflix on all of their content. It’s understandable why this isn’t being released straight to Disney+ like they did with Onward.
Don't form points as questions if you don't want answers. You could have just made this post your original reply.
or just wait for it to be added to the Disney+ library in 6 months.
How often did you go to the theater alone? Me, almost never. Typically I paid for a family of 4, more if girl friends, and this is cheap compared to that. Plus the whole rewatch, pause thing. But the reason i go to the theater, is the REALLY big screen (versus my 70 inch). So I am on the fence. Though i think your comment overlooks the obvious.
Good point about Mulan. I forgot about that.
That $24 billion of content is not included in the Disney+ sub price though.
Let me tell you about a rumor that might become fact, Disney bought fox, and there are a number of films that are not exactly for children, like Die Hard, Aliens, and so on. Well there are plans I see from two sources that talk about a another point of access within Disney + that will require a pin to enter which will separate the more adult Fox, Touchstone content titles. This will appear in a few weeks and is why a lot of that content up to now has been missing. Another rumor said that something named Star with adult content was coming.
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Or you can, like usual, wait some months for it to finish its “theater” run, and then buy the physical release, no problem, same as before. Or wait longer and see it “included” on a premium streaming service like HBO, or a bit longer and see it when it comes home to roost on Disney+.
Movies have always had a tiered release like this. You might pay as much for two tickets to see it day-of-release as you’d pay for a BluRay some months later. You’re paying “extra” now to see it day-of, whether in a theater or at home. If the movie isn’t worth the price to you, feel free to wait.
(To be clear, I have no special interest in Mulan, it wasn’t on my list of must-see movies, but I am pleased to see this method of watching becoming available.)
So let me get this straight, you ALREADY have to be a paying Disney+ subscriber, and ON TOP OF THAT, you have to pay $30 to watch the movie?
You can't just pay $30 to watch it by itself like people did with the Trolls movie a while back?
What a blatant and ridiculous cash grab. Sadly I think many people will fall for it and Disney will make a fortune, because people are so starved for new content during this pandemic and those who are still gainfully employed likely have a lot of extra cash from not being able to.. well, do anything.
Waah waah, cash grab. Really? So skip the cash grab and go see it in the theater. Oh wait. There is a pandemic going on. Different times. Different models. They made the movie, they need to pay for it. Your analysis is simplistic.
i don't think you understood my question fully. my question is about having to have a subscription to buy it, which might mean you might have to keep your subscription to watch it later on because your purchase will live in you D+ app.
Do a family of 4 with popcorn and drinks. I won’t buy it because I have no interest in seeing it, but if they release Black Widow this way I’m all in for it.
Yeah that bugs me. I've been waiting for them to spend large on a big splashy film but it hasn't happened yet. I think Stranger Things would have made a good film trilogy but episodes are their thing apparently.
Fair point, but I still don’t see the $30 price list as outrageous for a sort of a long-term rental. I already have D+, so I don’t really take that into account. Yeah, if you didn’t have D+, and/or already burned through the free trial, then that raises the price somewhat.
FYI Mulan is a blockbuster catagory, production is $200 million plus. China is 2nd to the USA for theater revenue and they are open with some restrictions. 50% capacity with spacing. Likely make a lot of money there.
Disney+ doesn’t offer a free trial. Apparently Apple doesn’t mind in this instance but it’s ok because all developers are treated equally or some crap.
Depends on the story. There’s a lot you can do with a dozen or more hours of TV that’s harder to fit into 3 separate movies (the movies kind of have to be able to stand on their own, in a theater, so they need a bit more setup than the next episode of a show does, so it’s more than just 12 hours of show vs 9 hours max of movies - more room for storytelling on TV). Covid has had me watching more streaming content, things like Westworld, The Expanse, and The Man in the High Castle. I don’t think any of those would be well served by 2-3 movies.
I had a projector for many years and the 10 ft screen ended theatres for me. I've been waiting for zero-day film releases ever since but the sticker shock is real. Still, I would probably pay it for a movie I really like.
Onward was released to theaters on March 6 in the USA it made $61,555,145 before theaters shut down, putting it on Disney + April 3rd, was Disney gesture of giving something to watch for people being impacted by pandemic. So no Onward didn't directly got to Disney +.
Apple also made a lot of free content and some free Channels at the same time.
That little experiment did some permanent damage to the relationship between the studios and the theaters. I don’t think they’re looking to repeat the experience. They’re still trying to figure out what works and what doesn’t, I these weird times.