Disney's Streaming Consolidation, Sequels To 25 Year Old Movies & Daisy Ridley Gets Die Hard
/Film Daily
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4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
On the May 12, 2023 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editorial director Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film writer Ryan Scott to discuss the latest film and tv news, including Disney Consolidating Streaming, Sequels To 25 Year Old Movies and Daisy Ridley Gets Die Hard.
In The News:
- Disney Will Launch A 'One-App Experience' Featuring Disney+ And Hulu Content By The End Of 2023
- Ryan: Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts Is Under Two Hours, My Butt And Brain Thank You
- Ryan: Daisy Ridley Gets Her Own Die Hard With Cleaner, An Action Film From Director Martin Campbell
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- Ryan: The Old CW Is Basically Gone And That's A Shame
- Jamie Lee Curtis And Lindsay Lohan May Finally Reunite For A Freaky Friday Sequel
- Ryan: Emilio Estevez Thinks There's Room For Five More Young Guns Sequels
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily for Friday, May 12th, 2023 on today's episode. |
| 0:07.5 | We're going to discuss the latest film and TV news. |
| 0:10.3 | This is slash film editorial director Peter Sorretta and joining me on to his podcast is Slash Film, |
| 0:14.8 | writer Ryan Scott. |
| 0:16.7 | Hey everyone, how's it going? |
| 0:19.2 | It's going good. |
| 0:20.6 | Yesterday, or was it the day before, one of the last couple of days they had the Disney investors call and |
| 0:28.0 | the biggest news to come out of that is that basically Disney is going to launch a one-app experience |
| 0:35.0 | featuring Disney Plus and Hulu content |
| 0:38.0 | by the end of this year. |
| 0:41.0 | So Bob Eiger, the CEO of Disney, stated on the company call that Disney will continue |
| 0:50.2 | to offer Disney Plus Hulu and ESPN Plus as standalone options, but the new combination |
| 0:57.7 | app will provide subscribers with quote access to more robust and streamlined content. |
| 1:04.1 | So, the other big news, I guess, |
| 1:10.4 | is the CFO, Christine McCarthy McCarthy also during the same earnings call explained |
| 1:15.3 | that Disney will quote be removing certain content from streaming platforms unquote |
| 1:21.8 | that's in addition to Iger's plans to raise the price of Disney |
| 1:25.1 | pluses ad-free option while keeping the price of its ads including tier |
| 1:30.2 | quote modest. It remains unclear if Disney plans to purchase Comcast |
| 1:34.9 | stake in a Hulu next year in order to own the streamer outright but I guess it |
| 1:41.8 | seems like so it's not like they're rebranding it as like a all in one app. |
| 1:47.5 | It seems like if you subscribe to Disney and Hulu it will all be in one app. |
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