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I'm surprised by how little content will be offered for the price point that will increase shortly. The Simpsons and a new star wars show plus 500 movie titles

by wolco 7y ago

I'm surprised by how little content will be offered for the price point that will increase shortly. The Simpsons and a new star wars show plus 500 movie titles. Max 50 titles by 2024. People may pick it up to try it but if there is nothing to keep them watching many will drop them. Surprised they are only spending a billion in new content per year and spending 150 million for 10 star wars episodes. Surprised they are going in-house for the most part. The level of quality they are demanding is high. High movie ticket prices use to cover those costs and generate record profits. Under this new model they will start losing money until they reach peak subscriber if those targets are slower than expected that will put pressure to reduce the amount of new content and live off of their back catalogue.

scarface74 7y ago
Disney has to wait for a lot of content deals to expire before they can bring more to Disney+
paganel 7y ago
Maybe people with kids will pick it up? Which, granted, it's a pretty big market, but even so I think you are correct on your assessment when it comes to the very few titles they'll have available. And to be honest I don't know how much they'll be able to milk the Star Wars brand, it starts looking very, very stale. Even Pixar has started losing a big part of its attractiveness since it has been acquired by Disney, which I didn't think possible at the time of the acquisition.
- seanalltogether 7y ago
  My daughter just started getting into Winnie the Pooh shorts and movies, which we're happy to let her watch and rewatch and rewatch, mostly because they don't annoy us. I have no doubt we'll be buying in to disney+ for her to have access to higher quality cartoons.
seganddr 7y ago
The Mandelorian is only the first Star Wars series. There's another based on Cassian Andor (from Rogue One, Diego Luna's character) and Obi Wan with Ewan McGreggor. I am excited for all of them!

by wolco 7y ago

scarface74 7y ago

Disney has to wait for a lot of content deals to expire before they can bring more to Disney+

paganel 7y ago

Maybe people with kids will pick it up? Which, granted, it's a pretty big market, but even so I think you are correct on your assessment when it comes to the very few titles they'll have available. And to be honest I don't know how much they'll be able to milk the Star Wars brand, it starts looking very, very stale. Even Pixar has started losing a big part of its attractiveness since it has been acquired by Disney, which I didn't think possible at the time of the acquisition.

seanalltogether 7y ago
My daughter just started getting into Winnie the Pooh shorts and movies, which we're happy to let her watch and rewatch and rewatch, mostly because they don't annoy us. I have no doubt we'll be buying in to disney+ for her to have access to higher quality cartoons.

seganddr 7y ago

The Mandelorian is only the first Star Wars series. There's another based on Cassian Andor (from Rogue One, Diego Luna's character) and Obi Wan with Ewan McGreggor. I am excited for all of them!