Disney Plus was one of the most exciting and eventful launches that happened in 2019. In case you don’t know what Disney Plus is, we have everything you need to know about the new streaming service.
Disney Plus launched on Nov. 12th in the United States and costs $7 for a monthly subscription (or $70 yearly). The monthly rate is half the price of HBO Now and is cheaper than Netflix's lowest tier at $9 a month. In little more than a day, Disney Plus supposedly registered more than 10 million people. To compare this, HBO Now took nearly three years to reach about 5 million subscribers. Disney Plus is designed to be the exclusive streaming service that allows viewers to watch theatrical blockbusters such as Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar, National Geographic, as well as Disney's own studio.
So is Disney Plus worth paying for? Basically, if you love Star Wars, Marvel movies, old Disney classics, you may find the subscription worth it. Generally, Disney Plus includes content from the Disney brand itself, Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars and National Geographic. It'll also integrate programming from Fox, all 30 seasons of The Simpsons, and more titles, like The Sound of Music, The Princess Bride and Malcolm in the Middle. In August, Disney said that it'll go further than that, "reimagining" past Fox franchises "for a new generation." It has been indicated that a reboot of Home Alone is in the works.
Disney Plus is designed to be the only place you can stream all of Disney's theatrically released movies, starting with Captain Marvel and Avengers: Endgame at launch and the rest of its 2019 slate later on. Frozen 2, for example, will be streamable on the service this summer. Disney Plus will also house the entire film libraries of Pixar, Star Wars and its Signature Series and Disney Vault lines of classic hand-drawn animated movies. (Think Bambi, The Lion King, Snow White and so on.) Of course, the company is developing a big slate of original, exclusive shows and movies for the service. Major originals include The Mandalorian, a big-budget series starring Pedro Pascal about a bounty-hunting gunfighter that takes place five years after the events in The Return of the Jedi. Disney is investing heavily in The Mandalorian. Its budget reportedly approached $15 million per episode. Game of Thrones didn't even hit that kind of spending until its final season.
Have you purchased Disney Plus? If so, what do you think? Is it 11/10 or 5/10 worthy?
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