Posted on 08/04/2020 3:05:10 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Disney is slashing the age-old theatrical window to ribbons: The much-anticipated live-action remake of Mulan is skipping theaters in the U.S. and debuting on Disney+ on Friday, Sept. 4… for an additional $29.99 fee, that is.
The news was announced during Disney’s earnings call on Tuesday, our sister site Variety reports. Mulan — based on the 1998 animated film and starring Liu Yifei as the titular girl who poses as a boy to take her father’s place in China’s imperial army — was originally slated to be released in theaters back in March, but was delayed due to the global coronavirus pandemic. A new premiere date was announced and then moved back several more times, until it was removed from Disney’s release calendar altogether last month. (The film is still expected to premiere in theaters internationally.)
Mulan is one of the highest-profile theatrical films to go straight to a streaming service or VOD this year in response to the coronavirus outbreak, which has claimed more than 160,000 lives in the U.S. alone. The Tom Hanks-starring World War II drama Greyhound, once bound for theaters, premiered on Apple TV+ last month, while movies like Trolls World Tour and The Invisible Man became available on VOD months ahead of schedule.
Disney is upping the ante, though, with the hefty $29.99 price tag for Mulan. Other early VOD arrivals from major studios have been charging $19.99 at most for the convenience of watching a new Hollywood release from the comfort of your couch. But Disney CEO Bob Chapek emphasizes that this isn’t the start of a trend: “We’re looking at Mulan as a one-off, as opposed to saying there’s some new business windowing model that we’re looking at.”
I hate to think of people torrenting this.
My view? Starve the Chinese Beast. No Pay, no watch!
Boycotting. Due to Covid and the efforts of its cast and crew in crushing the Hong Kong protesters.
why would I want to pay 30 bucks to watch some transvestite suck up to the CCP?
I don’t give a crap.
I haven’t seen anything worthwhile from Disney, since “Old Yeller”, back in the 50s/
LOL. There is so much content out there for a few bucks per month that the idea of paying another $30 or $20 or even $5 to rent a movie is ludicrous.
I’d rather watch The History Guy than any mindless crap from the Borg, er... I mean Disney.
I figure everyone who is in this, produced this, and markets it doesn’t like me and mine (to put it mildly) and would like it if my family and I were dead (to put it truthfully). I’ll keep my money and my time to myself, thanks.
Or, put another way... I STAND WITH HONG KONG!
I got the Disney+ channel for free for a year with Verizon. I think I’ve watched 2 things on it, and I won’t be watching Mulan, that’s for sure.
They said 'titular'...heh heh...heh heh...
Disney only can recycle its classics into forgettable versions now. Pathetic. At least Pixar had some good ideas — before being Disneyfied!
Lol! Alright, Bevis! That will do.
Yes, that would be terrible.
It will not cost me a dime as I do not have a Disney+ subscription.
“The much-anticipated live-action remake of Mulan”
Yeah, I anticipated it by laying in a stock of barf bags.
Funny...I have only seen two episodes of them, and I found both of them hilariously funny:
"No Laughing!" and
But I have never watched any other episodes...
I’ve never watched any episodes, but then I have never watched The Simpsons either. I have heard enough about both shows to form opinions anyway. I haven’t owned a
‘Television Machine’ since the first Clinton Administration, so some cultural things, I miss out on and catch up later.
Maybe some day I will get around to seeing the original “Mulan”.
Then if that is any good, I can wait another twenty years and maybe I’ll see this version. Bet it will be a lot cheaper then!
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