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Mulan Skipping U.S. Theaters and Heading to Disney+ — But It'll Cost Ya
TV Line ^ | August 4, 2020 | Dave Nemetz

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.”


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: china; disney; disneyplus; hollywood; mulan
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It will only be worth the money if at least 3 people watch the movie together.
1 posted on 08/04/2020 3:05:10 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

I hate to think of people torrenting this.


2 posted on 08/04/2020 3:06:03 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: EdnaMode

My view? Starve the Chinese Beast. No Pay, no watch!


3 posted on 08/04/2020 3:07:42 PM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: EdnaMode

4 posted on 08/04/2020 3:08:06 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (Voltaire: "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool".)
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To: EdnaMode

Boycotting. Due to Covid and the efforts of its cast and crew in crushing the Hong Kong protesters.


5 posted on 08/04/2020 3:09:35 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: EdnaMode

why would I want to pay 30 bucks to watch some transvestite suck up to the CCP?


6 posted on 08/04/2020 3:10:53 PM PDT by jarwulf
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To: EdnaMode

I don’t give a crap.


7 posted on 08/04/2020 3:11:24 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I haven’t seen anything worthwhile from Disney, since “Old Yeller”, back in the 50s/


8 posted on 08/04/2020 3:12:54 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: EdnaMode

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.


9 posted on 08/04/2020 3:13:34 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: SES1066

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!


10 posted on 08/04/2020 3:14:44 PM PDT by Retrofitted
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To: EdnaMode

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.


11 posted on 08/04/2020 3:17:36 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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"... the titular girl..."

They said 'titular'...heh heh...heh heh...

12 posted on 08/04/2020 3:22:55 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies"- George Orwell)
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To: EdnaMode

Disney only can recycle its classics into forgettable versions now. Pathetic. At least Pixar had some good ideas — before being Disneyfied!


13 posted on 08/04/2020 3:29:28 PM PDT by Moonmad27
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To: rlmorel

Lol! Alright, Bevis! That will do.


14 posted on 08/04/2020 3:32:39 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Rastus

Yes, that would be terrible.


15 posted on 08/04/2020 3:34:04 PM PDT by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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To: EdnaMode

It will not cost me a dime as I do not have a Disney+ subscription.


16 posted on 08/04/2020 3:36:29 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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“The much-anticipated live-action remake of Mulan”

Yeah, I anticipated it by laying in a stock of barf bags.


17 posted on 08/04/2020 3:44:39 PM PDT by dsc (We are competing against Soros money poured onto a hive mentality.)
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To: lee martell

Heh heh...

Funny...I have only seen two episodes of them, and I found both of them hilariously funny:


"No Laughing!" and


"Lesbian Seagull"

But I have never watched any other episodes...

18 posted on 08/04/2020 3:47:23 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Truth is Treason in the Empire of Lies"- George Orwell)
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To: rlmorel

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.


19 posted on 08/04/2020 3:54:56 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: EdnaMode

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!


20 posted on 08/04/2020 4:02:13 PM PDT by Boogieman
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