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The problem for Disney+ is that a good percentage of the fan base already owns their best on physical media. So how do you draw those to a subscription if new content is not added? That goes for the genre Marvel and Star Wars as well as the children's Disney Princess movies. 30 new hours a year probably isn't going to maintain subscriptions. Marvel and Star Wars are being counted on to repay their acquisition cost. With the Infinity Saga over and a new generation now coming in the guaranteed multigenerational box office of bringing in their grandparents watching their childhood fantasies is drying up.

 

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The problem for Disney+ is that a good percentage of the fan base already owns their best on physical media. So how do you draw those to a subscription if new content is not added? That goes for the genre Marvel and Star Wars as well as the children's Disney Princess movies. 30 new hours a year probably isn't going to maintain subscriptions. Marvel and Star Wars are being counted on to repay their acquisition cost. With the Infinity Saga over and a new generation now coming in the guaranteed multigenerational box office of bringing in their grandparents watching their childhood fantasies is drying up.

Thats why they need other ips to sell Disney+. For example, Netflix doesn't really rely on a few franchises to remain on top.

Disney+ cannot afford to release 3 to 4 Marvel movies + 3 to 5 shows (live action/cartoons) every year, and without any of those being a financial loss. I think the cartoons are being made with a cheaper budget (or else we would have gotten fancy 3D animation/blockbuster-like animation like The Bad Batch). The live action stuff though is much complicated. A $50 million budget for a film and a Marvel series can look really cheap especially if the budget isn't utilized well. She Hulk and Secret Invasion didn't look like their reported budget.

 

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Vision MCU Series Sets Disney+ Release Date Window, Showrunner - Comic Book Movies and Superhero Movie News - SuperHeroHype

Marvel has officially set the release date for a planned upcoming series based on Paul Bettany's character Vision, according to Variety.

www.superherohype.com

2026

 

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The problem for Disney+ is that a good percentage of the fan base already owns their best on physical media. So how do you draw those to a subscription if new content is not added? That goes for the genre Marvel and Star Wars as well as the children's Disney Princess movies. 30 new hours a year probably isn't going to maintain subscriptions. Marvel and Star Wars are being counted on to repay their acquisition cost. With the Infinity Saga over and a new generation now coming in the guaranteed multigenerational box office of bringing in their grandparents watching their childhood fantasies is drying up.

I think here it's less amount of "TV" content than it is how the content is approached.

Marvel's and Star Wars' (for the most part) recent method - an endless string of one seasons which doesn't leave them much time to build a following. Restricting live action shows to basically animated show lengths.

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Netflix's Marvel method - shows with lots of one hour episodes over multiple seasons allowing more of an opportunity for growth. Only a couple of core key interconnected series that are all noticeably building up to the same end point.

Netflix was operating how TV shows are typically ran, Disney Plus' method - to my knowledge, they're the only ones oddly managing shows like many limited series.

If I was to guess, Disney Plus is trying to manage it like long-form films rather than like television shows which leads to a wonky pacing that I'm sure many have noticed.

The Netflix Marvel shows were running adjacent to the golden years of the MCU. Thus, it can be done. Marvel just needs to return to placing more emphasis on focus.

For instance, instead of many very loosely connected one-offs. Imagine one series focused on Moon Knight, another Blade, another Ghost Rider, another Werewolf By Night with the promise that they would all come together in a 'Midnight Suns' series. It doesn't need to be 'Midnight Suns,' but that is to stress - Netflix's 'Defenders' structure had promise and structure which helped to make every one of its shows play as important.