Category: disney

Indian streaming giant broke Safari support to deal with security hole

[ad_1] The company publicly blamed “technical limitations” in Safari for the sudden lack of support, but the tipsters said this wasn’t the truth. They instead said that Hotstar fully intended on restoring Safari support once it had patched the flaw on its side, and the site appeared to have resumed working at the time we […]

Marvel is turning some of its best-known comic books into audiobooks

[ad_1] The finished audiobooks will be available through numerous major online audiobook providers, including Apple Books, Audible and Google. Dreamscape’s parent, Midwest Tapes, will also offer the digital audiobooks to libraries through its Hoopla service. This isn’t coming out of the blue when Marvel offered a second season of its Wolverine podcast and has created […]

Natalie Portman will narrate a dolphin documentary for Disney+

[ad_1] Another nature flick, Penguins, is due to reach Disney+ in 2020. There’s plenty of pressure on Disney to recruit A-list actors for roles like this. It knows that services like Netflix can attract their own top-tier documentary narrators, and it wouldn’t do if Disney+ arrived with docs that didn’t have a similar cachet. This […]

Hulu buys AT&T’s stake, leaving Comcast and Disney as owners

[ad_1] AT&T said it would use the money to “reduce its debt.” Between this and Disney’s acquisition of key Fox assets, Hulu’s joint venture is down to just two companies, Disney and Comcast. It’s not yet certain just how this affects the ownership ratios, but Disney already had majority control with 60 percent while Comcast […]

Disney+ app and worldwide rollout plans revealed

[ad_1] Content As we knew, Captain Marvel will be a streaming exclusive on Disney+ from day one, and the company said all of the Cars movies will be there also. Disney also showed off the Falcon & Winter Soldier spinoff show we’d heard about, and revealed a new show from Jeff Goldblum produced by National […]

Disney will ‘likely’ offer a discounted Disney+, ESPN+ and Hulu bundle

[ad_1] We haven’t heard exactly how much Disney will charge for its streaming service, but at today’s investor event its Direct to Consumer president Kevin Mayer announced an interesting note about its plans. Whatever it costs, you will “likely” be able to get a discount once it launches later this year by subscribing to a […]

The ‘Chef’s Table’ team is making non-fiction shows for Disney+

[ad_1] Marvel 616 (that’s the working title) is an anthology documentary show that ties Marvel’s comic book universe and its creators to their historical and cultural contexts. Disney didn’t provide an example, but Spider-Man‘s focus on a flawed, more nuanced character might be a good candidate. The other show, Earthkeepers (also a working title), is […]

Hawkeye is the latest Avenger to reportedly get a Disney+ spinoff

[ad_1] Disney has a number of Marvel Cinematic Universe-adjacent shows in the works for its upcoming streaming platform, and it seems one of them is a limited Hawkeye series starring Jeremy Renner. The Disney+ show is reportedly an adventure series featuring Clint Barton (Renner) and Kate Bishop, a character from Marvel Comics who takes over […]

Get ready for targeted ads on your smart TV

[ad_1] The companies are calling themselves a consortium, and they’ve dubbed this “Project OAR,” or Open Addressable Ready. Once developed, the new, open standard will make it possible for all connected TV companies to sell targeted ads in scheduled and on-demand programs. While this will theoretically make ads more successful and therefore more valuable, it […]