Disney Plus Will Feature The Entire Disney Motion Picture Library

The Disney Vault is opening up for good.

Built upon a marketing strategy that deliberately limited the availability of DVD and Blu-ray releases for many classic films, the notorious “Disney Vault” made a chore out of collecting, and even simply watching, certain Disney titles.

Maybe you want a quick refresher on Dumbo before the release of its live-action counterpart next month; or perhaps you’d like to sit down with your kids and show them your own childhood favorites, be it Cinderella or 101 Dalmatians. Too bad. Because of the “Vault,” most Disney titles aren’t readily available in stores or even to rent online.

Yet the days of the “Vault” seem to be numbered. Just as consumers have seemingly shifted away from purchasing physical media, Disney is shifting their focus to their forthcoming streaming service, Disney Plus, and killing the “Vault” in the process.

At a shareholders meeting earlier this week, CEO Bob Iger announced that Disney Plus will house the “entire Disney motion picture library,” a catalog that stretches (and squashes) all the way back to the 1920s.

The catch? These films won’t be available right away. According to The Verge, Iger stated most of the titles will be released “at some point fairly soon after launch,” though an exact date is unknown for now.

On top of their entire catalog of older films, Iger also confirmed that Disney Plus will allow you to stream brand new theatrical features, like The Lion King or Avengers: Endgame within a year of release, as well as a slew of Disney-branded television series, like Jon Favreau‎’s Star Wars show The Mandalorian.

Disney Plus will launch later this year, though an exact date and price have not been announced. As always, though, watch this space for more.

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Kevin Feige Says Diversity And Representation Is The Future Of The MCU

Earlier this month, we learned that The Eternals would feature the MCU’s first openly gay male lead, and while we’ve yet to receive any official confirmation that that’s indeed going to be the case, it was hardly the first indication we’ve seen that Marvel Studios is making every effort they can to address the lack of LGBTQ representation in their movies.

Last November, for example, executive vice president of production Victoria Alonso pointed out in an interview with the BBC that “the gay community has not been represented whatsoever,” adding, “I’m gay, so I can tell you that I would long for that.” And earlier this week, at the Captain Marvel premiere, she spoke once more about it, telling Variety that the time’s right to bring a gay superhero into the franchise.

She’s not the only one who thinks that, either. Speaking to The Wrap a couple of days ago, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige also touched on the topic of diversity in the MCU and made clear that Black Panther was not a one-off and though he didn’t comment specifically on if we can expect to see more LGBTQ representation, he did say that diversity is not something the studio will be shying away from in the future.

“People also ask sometimes bout Black Panther. So, the notion of representation on screen, in front of and behind the camera, somebody asked me once, so is Black Panther a one-off? This is the future. This is the way the world is, and the way, certainly, our studio’s going to be run going forward, because it brings about better stories. The more diverse the group of people making the movie is, the better the stories.”

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Already, the future for Marvel Studios and the MCU looks to promise more diversity, with Captain Marvel finally giving the franchise its first female solo lead. Beyond that, the much anticipated Black Widow film is now gearing up to head into production and Feige even told us last year that the majority of superheroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe will soon be women.

Black Panther 2, meanwhile, is also on the way, and though the release slate of Marvel’s Phase 4 is still pretty mysterious, it’s clear that Alonso, Feige, and their peers have some big plans in mind for how to bring more representation into this most beloved cinematic universe.

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