New Disney Streaming Service: Disney+

[Bill1978]

I admit that I held off on Disney+ for a long time as I physically owned everything I tend to re-watch, but once they added Star for the non-US crowd I caved. But I do find myself casually watching Netflix more often than Disney+

[Daniel]

New profile icons for "The Simpsons" have been added.

Titles removed: (US)
Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Dr. Dolittle 3
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute To A King

Dropping today:

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Monsters At Work – Episode 10 (Finale)
Turner & Hooch – Episode 7
Chip ‘n’ Dale: Park Life – Episode 6
Marvel's What If – Episode 4
Marvel Studios Legends
Dug Days
The Chicken Squad - 4 Episodes (Season 1)
Cesar Millan: Better Human Better Dog
Alaska Animal Rescue - Season 2
Behind The Scenes of Growing Up Animal
Smoky Mountain Park Rangers
Happier than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles
X-Men: Dark Phoenix
Tomorrowland

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Last Man Standing – Episode 6 (Season 9)
Mixed-ish – Episode 3 (Season 1)
The Walking Dead – Episode 2 (Season 11)
American Dad – Episode 9 (Season 17)
Bless The Harts – Episode 4 (Season 2)
Only Murders In The Building – Episode 1, 2 & 3
War of The Worlds - Episode 8 – (Season 2 Finale)
That One Word: Feyenoord - Episode 1
Sydney to the Max - Episode 1-10 (Season 3)
Minnie's Bow Toons
Wicked Tuna: North vs South - Season 6
World's Deadliest: Jaws & Sins
Drugged 2
Breakout - Season 2
Motherland: Fort Salem - Season 1
The D'Amelio Show
Cannibal Sharks
King of Coke: Living the High Life
That Thing You Do!
Derailed
The Martian
The A-Team

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American Horror Stories - Episode 3
Genius: Aretha - Season 3
The Hustler - Season 1
Reservation Dogs (Premiere)
The Simpsons - Season 31-32
Ad Astra
Lucy in the Sky
Luna

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Gordon Ramsay: Uncharted – Season 3
That One Word: Feyenoord - Episode 1
Kickboxer: Retaliation
Disney's Launchpad
Kickboxer: Vengeance
The Man with One Red Shoe
The Guardian
Aloft
Spin

[Ben]

Ooh, Muders In The Building…been waiting for that one! Thanks Dan!

[Daniel]

Same here, shame it had to be a Hulu original!

[Ben]

Ah, of course. C'mon Disney, just change Hulu's name to Star and lump everything together to make it a truly worldwide streaming service!

[EricJ]

I have to ask where the international D+ updates are coming from, if the source hasn't been mentioned already.

(There's a YouTube reactor I follow who gets his Disney movies from D+ Spain, and I'm crossing fingers that they get Watcher or Something Wicked by October even if we over here don't.)

[Daniel]

Dropping today:

:
Turner & Hooch – Episode 8
Chip ‘n’ Dale: Park Life – Episode 7
Marvel's What If – Episode 5
Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. – Episode 1
Mira, Royal Detective - 15 episodes (Season 2)
Pepper Ann
The Incredible Dr. Pol - 5 episodes (Season 19)
Sparkshort – Twenty Something
Far Away From Raven's Home
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

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Walking Dead – Episode 3 (Season 11)
Last Man Standing – Episode 7 (Season 9)
Only Murders In The Building – Episode 3
American Horror Stories – Episode 1
Mixed-Ish – Episode 4
American Dad – Episode 10 (Season 17)
Bless The Harts – Episode 5 (Season 2)
That One Word: Feyenoord - Episode 2
Private Practice
Secret Life of Predators
Riding Britain's Railway
The Truth Behind 2
Muppet Babies Reboot - Season 3
9/11 Control the Skies
My 9/11
9/11: The Plane that Hit the Pentagon
George W. Bush: The 9/11 Interview
Bin Laden's Hard Drive
Million Dollar Moon Rock Heist
The Next Mega Tsunami
Return from the Dead
Walk the Line
He Got Game
Maze Runner: Scorch Trials

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Mira, Royal Detective - Season 1
Pepper Ann
American Horror Stories - Episode 4
Criminal Minds - Season 12
The Golden Girls
The Great North - Season 1
Reservation Dogs - Episode 2
9/11: One Day in America
Women of 9/11
Bride Wars

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That One Word: Feyenoord - Episode 2
Danger Decoded
Prairie Dog Manor
Dollhouse – Season 1&2
The Invaders – Season 1
Apocalypse: War of the Worlds – Season 1
Shots Fired
What Just Happened??! with Fred Savage
9/11 Firehouse
9/11 Rescue Cops
Women of 9/11
9/11: One Day in America
Shock and Awe
All I See Is You
Blaze
Hot Tub Time Machine

Who's that girl? What's her name? Is she cool? Is she lame? Pepper Ann! Finally! Such fond memories.

[Ben]

Thanks Dan…always appreciated!

Looks like Oz gets a pretty fair whack this month!

[gaastra]

Good bye disney access this year.

https://deadline.com/2021/09/disney-rel ... 234830827/

[Ben]

As it should be.

I still don’t get what’s wrong with a three month window between cinema and home viewing, since the time passes so fast. 30 days doesn’t seem enough and 45 days just feels weird. At least give a movie that many people have often spent upwards of two years on a couple of months to find their audiences: 60 days minimum. That’s even less than the average product guarantee!

[Dacey]

At the very least 90 days should be the minimum. The industry is slowly devouring itself.

[Ben]

90 days/three months, yes.

But where the windows will and are inevitably shrinking, they will indeed start to cannibalise themselves if they go below 60 days/two months. A film sometimes needs that time to generate word of mouth. The shorter the period the more people will wait four or five weeks just to get a movie at home. The 45 day window is just a month and a half…that’s no time for a promotion to really run between cinema and home release.

[EricJ]

Good bye disney access this year.

https://deadline.com/2021/09/disney-rel ... 234830827/

Mission accomplished, Black Widow...

I still don’t get what’s wrong with a three month window between cinema and home viewing, since the time passes so fast. 30 days doesn’t seem enough and 45 days just feels weird. At least give a movie that many people have often spent upwards of two years on a couple of months to find their audiences: 60 days minimum. That’s even less than the average product guarantee!

No, seriously, WHAT is with studios' constant insistence--as their stuck-to story in defending in-home premieres and digital-VOD pre-orders--that either audiences "want their windows as short as possible!", or that they have to shrink release windows "to combat piracy!"
Look, just say you want your money as soon as possible because you didn't get it in theaters, you know it and we know it, and it hasn't fooled anyone yet.

Anyone who's been around since the VHS days can remember when the window to a sell-through title was six months (anyone waited for Batman '89 on VHS?), and knowing that most discs now are dated for retail literally a week or two before theatrical release, most of us have sufficient patience above that of a mosquito to wait one decent month or two...
It's been thirty-seven years since they've been using the W-word, don't you think it would have occurred to someone to change the record by this point?

[Daniel]

Given the timing, I would say Shang-Chi made enough moolah and showed that they don't need to bother with Premier Access anymore.

[EricJ]

Shang-Chi basically followed BW and WandaVision's example and promoted itself as "See it because it's MARVEL! We still don't have a clue yet, but it's been months, and it's Marvel, dammit!"

Of course, now, the star's early comments against the Chinese state have been surfacing, and if this was Disney/Marvel's official entry into China-Mania, Disney's marketing strategy may have a nasty surprise coming..