Next week, Disney will start taking dozens of titles off of Disney+, Hotstar, and Hulu.
A number of movies are scheduled to be removed from Disney’s streaming platforms worldwide starting on May 26.
This list consists of Disney+ programs including Willow, Big Shot, Turner & Hooch, The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, Just Beyond, Diary of a Future President, The Mysterious Benedict Society, and The World According to Jeff Goldblum. Additional Hulu shows being pulled include Y: The Last Man, Dollface, The Hot Zone, Maggie, Pistol, and Little Demon.
According to a Disney representative quoted by Deadline, The list of movies leaving Hulu and Disney+ the following week is still being finalized. This implies that changes to what stays and what goes on Disney+ may continue over the next few days.
Titles Being Removed From Disney+ & Hulu
- 9/11: One Day in America
- Among the Stars
- America the Beautiful
- Artemis Fowl
- Be Our Chef
- Better Nate Than Ever
- Bin Laden s Hard Drive
- Black Beauty
- Buried Secrets of WWII
- Cheaper by the Dozen remake
- Clouds
- Croc That Ate Jaws
- Darby and the Dead
- Diary of a Future President
- Disney Fairy Tale Weddings
- Dollface
- Drug Lords: The Next Generation
- Earth to Ned
- Encore!
- Extreme Rescues
- Flora & Ulysses
- Foodtastic
- Harmonious Live!
- Hollywood Stargirl
- It s a Dog s Life with Bill Farmer
- Just Beyond
- Life Below Zero: Next Generation
- Little Demon
- Locked Up Abroad
- Love in the Time of Corona
- Maggie
- Magic Camp
- Marvel s Project Hero
- More Than Robots
- Most Wanted Sharks
- National Geographic Investigates: LSD and Psychedelics
- North Korea: Inside the Mind of a Dictator
- Own the Room
- Pentatonix: Around the World for the Holidays
- Pick the Litter
- Pistol
- Rogue Trip
- Rosaline
- Shop Class
- Stargirl
- Stuntman
- The Armstrong Tapes
- The Big Fib
- The Come Up
- The Deep End
- The Hot Zone
- The One and Only Ivan
- The Premise
- The Princess
- The Quest
- The Real Right Stuff
- The Right Stuff
- The World According to Jeff Goldblum
- Timmy Failure
- To Catch A Smuggler Rome
- Trafficked with Mariana van Zeller
- Ultimate Survival WWII
- Weird But True!
- Wolfgang
- Y: The Last Man
- Everything s Trash
- Keep This Between Us
- The Come Up
- The Deep End
Titles No Longer Leaving:
Disney has started to undo some of the removals after receiving a lot of criticism, including:
- A Pixar Spark Story
- Marvel’s Voice Rising: The Music Of Wakanda Forever
- Howard
The decision, which included a content impairment charge of $1.5 billion to $1.8 billion, was made public on May 10 during the most recent Disney earnings call.
The accounting procedure utilized when an asset’s current market value is lower than its original cost or book value, indicating that it has lost some of its initial value, is known as an impairment charge. Disney is, in other words, choosing to disregard this content.
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According to CFO Christine McCarthy, we are in the midst of assessing the material on our DTC services to be in line with the strategic changes in our approach to content curation.
Disney stands to save money by deleting some properties because they won’t be required to continue making residual payments or paying licensing costs. Disney may also take into account eliminating some content in order to reach licensing agreements with other businesses like Netflix, HBO, etc., and so generate additional income.
Disney’s decision to delete content follows a previous move by Warner Bros. Discovery, managed by David Zaslav, which similarly removed a number of movies from HBO Max. The shows on this list featured Raised by Wolves, The Gordita Chronicles, The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Nevers, Generation, FBoy Island, and Westworld, among others.
The goal of this action was to stop funding library books that didn’t live up to expectations. The business also entered into a number of licensing arrangements with Roku and Tubi to provide them access to many of these same series, further monetizing material that had earlier fallen short of expectations.
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The course that these films and TV programs produced by Disney will take in the future is yet unknown. In the future, they might appear on additional streaming services or be available for purchase on digital stores like iTunes, Google Play, and Amazon, among others.