New Disney Streaming Service: Disney+

[Otis8]

Wonder what Moana and P&tF will look like, now that they'll have an actual plot, every episode.

The movies had actual plots. Time to change the record

[Daniel]

Broken record more like it...

[EricJ]

Yes, even opinions can be wrong!
Much as I love the Stitch series, it can't touch the movie. Same for Tarzan, Herc, and Big Hero 6. Maybe the problem is they're too sophisticated and the shows are shorter and watered-down?

Oh, they're watered down, but at least they're focused as to what the point and environment concept are about:
- Tarzan got rid of 90's post-Scar sniffy-villain Clayton, in favor of a nasty jungle queen (now that's the Edgar Rice Burroughs we know)
- Herc put us entirely in the screwball modern-stone-age-Greece sitcom environment without the 90's-Renaissance "Poor picked-on outsider going the distance" schmaltz (although, yes, French Stewart was annoying),
- Big Hero 6 gave us comic superheroes without the shamelessly recycled "Never meet your hero" villain from Up along with Carl's "Learn to let go" lesson,
and, thank heavens,
- Lilo & Stitch:TS was actually ABOUT Lilo, Stitch and mischievous aliens, and not about whether Nani's job search and parental status would be ruined by psychotic lunatics.

And I still say "Atlantis II: Milo's Return" (the scrapped Disney Afternoon "Team Atlantis" pilot) actually made the supporting characters likable--yes, even Audrey, Doc and Moliere--by giving them something to do, and bringing in all the pretentious world-mythology plots left over from Gargoyles.

[gaastra]

From another website (not posted by me) disney theatre movies confirmed.

Luca – June 18, 2021
Turning Red – Mar 11, 2022
Lightyear (Buzz’s origin) (Evans) – June 17, 2022
Jungle Cruise (Rock, Blunt) – July 30, 2021
The Beatles: Get Back (documentary, *not* mentioned during Investor Day) - Aug 17, 2021
Lion King prequel
Sister Act 3 (Goldberg)
The Little Mermaid (live action remake, Baily, Diggs)

Edit--isnt sister act 3 disney plus? Is it getting a theatre release? The link says it is.

Cruella (Stone) - May 28, 2021

Edit--isnt that disney plus also?

Black Widow – May 7, 2021
Shang-Chi – July 9 2021
Eternals - Nov 5, 2021
Doctor Strange 2 – March 25, 2022
Thor: Love and Thunder (Thor, Jane, Valkyrie, Gorr) – May 6, 2022
Black Panther 2 (not replacing T’challa, shooting starts Jul 2021) – July 8, 2022
Captain Marvel 2 – Nov 11, 2022
Ant-Man a/t Wasp: Quantumania (Kang, Hank & Janet, Cassie) - 2022
Guardians of the Galaxy vol 3 (not mentioned during Investor day) - 2023
Blade
Fantastic Four
Deadpool 3 (not mentioned during Investor day)
Unnamed Mutant/X-Men film(s) - (not mentioned during Investor day, but announced by Feige at Comic-Con)
Rogue Squadron (Patti Jenkins directed) – Dec 2023
Unnamed Star wars(Taika Waititi directed)
Unnamed Star wars(Kevin Feige directed, not announced on Investor Day)

Unnamed star wars (Rian Johnson project? not mentioned on investor day)
Unnamed star wars(J.D. Dilliard project? not mentioned on investor day)
Indiana Jones 5 – July 2022
Children of Blood and Bone (in production)

[Ben]

A lot of that has not been confirmed and is just collating previous information that is still in flux. Feige is producing a SW project, not directing it, for instance. There's even speculation that this and Waititi's film are one and the same. I wouldn’t put any stock in anything past the end of 2021 at this point. Next year is still going to be bumpy, for production at least if nothing else.

[Randall]

Looks like lots of new content is coming, which is what people wanted. Yet, some will complain that Disney is watering down their many product lines. Such is life... Disney didn't spend $4B each on Marvel and Lucasfilm just to ignore their potential, for better or worse.

My son is still totally gung-ho to watch anything with "Star Wars" in the title, but I don't think that I'm quite so keen. I never need to see anything more of the Bad Batch, that's for sure. I'm up for just about anything "Marvel," though, and I look forward to all those shows. It's not likely that I'll be spending much time on the new Disney or Pixar animated shows, but I don't begrudge Disney making new shows out of their characters.

[droosan]

.. wasn't there some chatter awhile back about a Squirrel Girl project, of some sort..? Has that fallen completely out of the tree?

[Daniel]

A TV series was mooted for Freeform, but ultimately went nowhere.

[gaastra]

They did a few episodes and it never aired.

Well with all the news i forgot to post the new releases for this week in north amerca!

This week not counting new episodes like mickey mouse--

Safety
Ralph breaks the internet
High school musical: the musical: the holiday special! (say that 5 times fast!)
Disney channel epic holiday showdown
Disney holiday magic quest (what's with all the holiday? It's christmas!)
Gender Revolution The journey of Katie couric

Have been added.

[Ben]

No Small One in the UK.

However, Muppet Christmas Carol does still have When Love Is Gone as a deleted scene, so I’m still not sure why this was ever "lost" or couldn’t be reinserted into a digital HD version of the film. Of course they’d need the OCN to bring it up to 4K, but there’s no reason the "uncut" version couldn’t have been on Blu-ray or D+ all this time already, albeit "only" in HD.

[gaastra]

https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-muppet-chri ... 1845843144

4k version released in theatres for christmas and the love is gone scene has been put back in!

[Daniel]

That's been posted and doesn't shed light on the question. Here's an excerpt from an article last month:

The visual element is also to blame for the song’s continued absence. While the scene is available as a bonus feature on Disney+, there’s no hope of re-inserting that version into the film proper. “We tried cutting it into the movie, and it was like, ‘Whoa, somebody put a fog filter in front of the camera for this scene,’” Henson says. “No matter how hard we tried, it never looked good enough.”

As Henson explains, the scene’s original film negative is required to restore it, and Disney has been unable to locate the footage, much to the director’s consternation. “They always say, ‘It’ll show up. Negatives never permanently get lost, they just get put in the wrong place,’” he says. “For years and years, I’d call them every six months and see how they were doing. And they actually even put together a team and a little budget to try to find it, and they still couldn't. It’s very frustrating.”

Silly reasoning, but there you go. At least the story has a happy ending.

[Ben]

Nothing in that link about a cinema reissue...?

And all this still doesn’t explain how I saw it in UK cinemas — twice — in '92 with the song sequence intact. In fact, until the Blu-ray, I never knew the version of the film *without* the song, since it was in the cinema version I saw, and then the LaserDisc!

[gaastra]

Nothing in that link about a cinema reissue...?

It starts dec 18 in america.

https://www.fandango.com/the-muppet-chr ... e-overview

[Randall]

Okay, but where does it say it has the song reinserted?