![]() ![]() Disney will be one of them, but not right away.ĭisney and Sony inked a streaming deal in mid-April 2021. Instead, it has deals in place with various streamers that license Sony’s movies. Therefore, Disney Plus can’t just start streaming No Way Home once the theatrical window closes.Īs for Sony, the giant corporation doesn’t own a streaming service of its own. Marvel and Disney can’t just use Tom Holland’s Peter Parker in the MCU however it wants. For the biggest films, Disney Plus introduced its Premier Access model to sell streaming access to new, big-screen movies for an extra $30 fee.Sony owns the rights to all Spider-Man movies. Some Disney movies - typically midbudget live-action movies and Pixar films like Luca and Soul - skipped theaters entirely and were available to stream on Disney Plus at no extra cost. ![]() ![]() Almost immediately, Disney reimagined the service as an outlet to release big new movies. Sony and Starz, on the other hand, have been locked in a deal struck years ago, before the pandemic sped up how quickly new films reach a streaming service.ĭisney launched Disney Plus only about four months before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Disney has been flexible during the pandemic, constantly changing when (and if) movies went to theaters and how long they stayed there before streaming. On top of that, Disney and Sony have dramatically different streaming strategies.ĭisney has its own streaming service Sony doesn't. That's also why you can stream some movies on Disney Plus featuring Holland as Spider-Man - but you can't stream any of the Spider-Man specific films there. ![]() That's why Holland appears regularly in Disney's Avengers films, and Cumberbatch played Doctor Strange not only in Sony's No Way Home but also in Disney's Multiverse of Madness. Each company can arrange to "borrow" the characters (and the actors who play them) from the other to be part of its own MCU films. ![]()
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