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Sotiris wrote: Tue Feb 14, 2023 4:35 pm Let's hope Disney doesn't stoop to this.
The library content slim-down is probably not over yet; speculation is that Disney could be next. Just last week, CEO Bob Iger said Disney is targeting $5.5 billion in cost savings, including $3 billion in non-sports related content. It is unclear whether the $3 billion would involve removing library titles on Disney+ or Disney-controlled Hulu, but that’s considered a possibility.
Source: https://deadline.com/2023/02/the-stream ... 235256840/
This is sadly the trend in streaming. Hold onto your dvd’s everyone :)
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Disney's Divinity wrote: Sat Feb 18, 2023 1:26 pm I think selling the FOX titles would be a supremely dumb decision. I mean, why else did they buy all these IPs except for their use in streaming? Now, if they want to sell hulu, who cares. It and Netflix can fade away together. Disney doesn't need two services when they can easily put all their IPs on Disney+, just bar the adult-oriented stuff via parenting controls and so on.
Which is precisely why I said they should remove the stuff of Fox from Disney-controlled Hulu and put it on US Disney+ (now that it has parental controls and is adding more mature content) to attract subscribers who are single adults that would want to watch Predator movies like Prey or the upcoming Alien series being worked on for FX on Hulu.
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Scammers are taking aim at Disney+ subscribers and using phishing tactics to gather personal banking information from unsuspecting users.
https://www.disneydining.com/disney-plu ... -scam-bb1/

I advise scrolling down to see what the scam email looks like in case you get one.
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Miley Cyrus special coming:
"ENDLESS SUMMER VACATION (BACKYARD SESSIONS) streaming on @DisneyPlus March 10th in celebration of my record release," Cyrus tweeted alongside a teaser video for the special. The show will be a performance of her newly recorded album, and it takes place in her backyard.
https://www.nickiswift.com/1217246/mile ... h-montana/
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Disney wants to sell Hulu, but Comcast doesn't want it. :lol:

Disney CEO Bob Iger Is Open To Selling Hulu
https://deadline.com/2023/02/disney-bob ... 235254445/

Comcast “Happy” To Sell Hulu Stake To Disney As Deadline Looms
https://deadline.com/2023/03/comcast-ha ... 235282654/
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They both seem like they want to be rid of it, "Here, you take it." Too bad there isn't a third party they could dump it off on. I mean, Netflix and especially hulu are already diminished and will keep diminishing. They'll probably be as irrelevant as Peacock, Tubi, and all these other random services are as time goes by, so the bigger companies like those two probably have little interest in them now.
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So, Farerb posted this in the Lightyear thread:
Farerb wrote: Sat Mar 18, 2023 2:27 pm Even Disney forgot about this movie so much that they don't even know who Izzy Hawthorne is:
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https://twitter.com/DisneyPlus/status/1 ... vmp9Q&s=19
However, the Disney+ Twitter account keeps messing up!

Disney Plus goof that will make you die a little inside gives ‘Star Wars’ greatest couple an incestuous twist
https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/dis ... ous-twist/
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‘Ed Sheeran: The Sum Of It All’ Docuseries Coming To Disney+; Premiere Date & Trailer Unveiled
https://deadline.com/2023/03/ed-sheeran ... 235304307/
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Hulu-exclusive content will start to appear on Disney+ by year's end, although Disney+ and Hulu will continue to operate as separate services.

https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/d ... 235609003/
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NeoSuperBlissey wrote: Wed May 10, 2023 2:54 pm Hulu-exclusive content will start to appear on Disney+ by year's end, although Disney+ and Hulu will continue to operate as separate services.

https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/d ... 235609003/
I wonder WHICH content...
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Well, this sucks.

Disney Pulling Some Content Off Streaming In Strategic Rethink
https://deadline.com/2023/05/disney-pul ... 235362374/
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Sotiris wrote: Wed May 10, 2023 10:49 pm Well, this sucks.

Disney Pulling Some Content Off Streaming In Strategic Rethink
https://deadline.com/2023/05/disney-pul ... 235362374/
We don't know which content they're pulling off yet. So, I suggest not being all doom-and-gloom, as per how it more than most is here on these forums, and WAITING to find out what gets removed before sulking.
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I'd be happy for them to do better at curating their current range of content rather than just inhaling anything and everything (as I would for most streaming services), but I'm not here for them just dropping titles, particularly not Disney+ exclusives. Vanishing digital content is no joke. Would love some more transparency about what exactly they're losing.
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PatchofBlue wrote: Thu May 11, 2023 11:50 am I'd be happy for them to do better at curating their current range of content rather than just inhaling anything and everything (as I would for most streaming services), but I'm not here for them just dropping titles, particularly not Disney+ exclusives. Vanishing digital content is no joke. Would love some more transparency about what exactly they're losing.
Ahh thats interesting you feel that way. For me, one of my pet peeves with HBO Max (soon to be just Max) is that company owns a huge collection of old films from Warner Bros, RKO, MGM, United Artists, etc. but they rotate films on and off the service. It’s so annoying to me when I go onto the app to watch a film I’ve seen in their library only to find it’s been removed.
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I don't understand having to remove your own (unlicensed) content.

Also, Disney to Roll Out Combined App for Disney+ and Hulu This Year
https://wdwnt.com/?p=919401

Price Increase Coming to Ad-Free Disney+ Premium Tier Subscription, Basic Tier Coming to Europe This Year
https://wdwnt.com/?p=919403
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blackcauldron85 wrote: Thu May 11, 2023 6:52 pm I don't understand having to remove your own (unlicensed) content.

Also, Disney to Roll Out Combined App for Disney+ and Hulu This Year
https://wdwnt.com/?p=919401

Price Increase Coming to Ad-Free Disney+ Premium Tier Subscription, Basic Tier Coming to Europe This Year
https://wdwnt.com/?p=919403
I’ll be ready for that price increase.

And for the Disney+/Hulu merger app, too.
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UmbrellaFish wrote: Thu May 11, 2023 3:20 pm
PatchofBlue wrote: Thu May 11, 2023 11:50 am I'd be happy for them to do better at curating their current range of content rather than just inhaling anything and everything (as I would for most streaming services), but I'm not here for them just dropping titles, particularly not Disney+ exclusives. Vanishing digital content is no joke. Would love some more transparency about what exactly they're losing.
Ahh thats interesting you feel that way. For me, one of my pet peeves with HBO Max (soon to be just Max) is that company owns a huge collection of old films from Warner Bros, RKO, MGM, United Artists, etc. but they rotate films on and off the service. It’s so annoying to me when I go onto the app to watch a film I’ve seen in their library only to find it’s been removed.
Yeah, (HBO) Max playing musical chairs with all their content is annoying, but I find with them if you'll just wait long enough, you'll inevitably find it again on the service at some point. And they have one of the larger libraries of titles, so I'm never really left wanting for something to watch.

My biggest grievance with most streaming services is their need to have the largest rack of original content, so they'll greenlight generously, but refuse to give their projects the due resources (in production or marketing) for them to reach their full potential. Instead of ten really great shows, you get twenty mediocre shows. That's what I mean when I say they need to do better at curating their existing content instead of taking in everything.

Then there's the issue of deleting exclusive content, leaving potential viewers with no place to see it, and putting it at risk for complete erasure, which is why this vague announcement about Disney removing titles worries me.
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Yeah, with tax write-offs (or this "impairment charge"), I believe they're not allowed to show the films/shows for legal reasons, so they become lost media. I wish the DMC would make exclusive DVDs (at the minimum) for what will soon surely become lost media (Artimis Fowl surely will be dropped).
many of the pieces of content they created were negatively impacting the company’s bottom line due to their marketing costs outweighing the subscription revenue.

[Iger] explained, “And one interesting example — I should throw marketing in too — where when you make a lot of content everything needs to be marketed. You’re spending a lot of money marketing things that are not going to have an impact on the bottom except negatively due to the marketing costs.”

...there was a number of pieces of programming that were not driving any subscriptions whatsoever
https://boundingintocomics.com/2023/05/ ... ub-growth/

Who pays for this "impairment charge," by the way? Throwing out already-made content... where does that money come from?
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This is horrible! So many originals that never had a physical release will just vanish!
Disney is starting to pull content from streaming, with dozens of series and specials slated to leave Disney+ and Hulu on May 26, Deadline has learned. Here is a list of some of the titles that are being removed from Disney’s streaming services globally:

Big Shot [Disney+]
Turner & Hooch [Disney+]
The Mysterious Benedict Society [Disney+]
The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers [Disney+]
Willow [Disney+]
The Making of Willow [Disney+]
Diary of a Future President [Disney+]
Just Beyond [Disney+]
The World According to Jeff Goldblum [Disney+]
Marvel’s Project Hero [Disney+]
Marvel’s MPower [Disney+]
Marvel’s Voices Rising: The Music of Wakanda Forever [Disney+]
Y: The Last Man [FX/Hulu]
Pistol [FX/Hulu]
Little Demon [FX/Hulu]
Maggie [Hulu]
Dollface [Hulu]
The Hot Zone [Nat Geo/Hulu]
The Premise [Hulu]
Love in the Time of Corona [Hulu]
Everything’s Trash [Hulu]
Best in Snow [Hulu]
Best in Dough [Hulu]
Darby and the Dead [Hulu]
The Quest [Hulu]
Rosaline [Disney+]
Cheaper by the Dozen [Disney+]
The One and Only Ivan [Disney+]
Stargirl [Disney+]
Artemis Fowl [Disney+]
The Princess [Disney+]
Encore! [Disney+]
A Spark Story [Disney+]
Black Beauty [Disney+]
Clouds [Disney+]
America the Beautiful [Disney+]
Better Nate Than Ever [Disney+]
Weird But True! [Disney+]
Timmy Failure [Disney+]
Be Our Chef [Disney+]
Magic Camp [Disney+]
Howard [Disney+]
Earth to Ned [Disney+]
Foodtastic [Disney+]
Stuntman [Disney+]
Disney Fairy Tale Weddings [Disney+]
Wolfgang [Disney+]
It’s a Dog’s Life with Bill Farmer [Disney+]
The Real Right Stuff [Disney+]
The Big Fib [Disney+]
Rogue Trip [Disney+]
More Than Robots [Disney+]
Shop Class [Disney+]
Pick of the Litter [Disney+]
Own the Room [Disney+]
Among the Stars [Disney+]
Harmonious Live! [Disney+]
Pentatonix: Around the World for the Holidays [Disney+]
Source: https://deadline.com/2023/05/disney-rem ... 235372512/
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Well it goes without saying, but please keep us posted on whatever is going to be removed as soon as you hear it!
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