The Walt Disney Co. stated Friday that it’s going to launch Eternal, West Side Story and the remainder of its 2021 movies solely earlier than sending them to theaters for streaming, a present of confidence that the movie will return.
The firm experimented in the course of the pandemic to stream some films on the Disney+ streaming service concurrently they had been working in theaters. Cinema operators are watching carefully how Disney, which has dominated the movie field workplace lately, will deal with its upcoming slate because the Delta model slows viewers return to multiplexes.
Disney stated in an announcement that the animated musical Encanto can be in theaters for 30 days beginning November 24 and can hit Disney+ simply earlier than Christmas. The movie tells the story of a household that lives in a magical home within the mountains of Colombia. It consists of music written by Hamilton’s producer Lin-Manuel Miranda.
All different Disney releases, together with the Marvel movie Eternals in November and the revival of Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story in December, can be solely in theaters for at the very least 45 days, the corporate stated.
Disney’s most up-to-date movies, Marvel’s Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings, set a Labor Day weekend document with $94.7 million in ticket gross sales in US and Canadian theaters. Featuring a predominantly Asian solid together with Simu Liu and Awkwafina, the movie solely performed in theatres.
But filming for the 12 months is nicely under pre-pandemic ranges. Theater chains together with AMC Entertainment, Cineworld plc and Cinemark Holdings Inc. are counting on huge fall and winter titles to lure clients again.
Disney’s different 2021 movies are the historic drama The Last Duel and animated comedy Ron Gone Wrong in October, and the motion spy movie The King’s Man in December.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
