We’re just days away from Mulan debuting exclusively on Disney Plus, and the latest in the Mouse House’s long line of live-action remakes of their animated classics has gone from being one of the most highly-anticipated movies of the year guaranteed to do massive business at the box office to becoming one of the most hotly-debated, after it was pulled from theaters entirely and sent straight to the studio’s in-house streaming service for a one-off fee.
Some fans were thrilled that they were able to see Mulan from the comfort of their own home without having to risk a trip to their local multiplex, while others were annoyed at being asked to pay $30 to see a movie on a service that they already pay a monthly subscription fee for. Theater owners were furious, and you can completely understand why, with an industry still in the embryonic stages of reopening losing out on the lucrative revenue stream that comes with one of the biggest titles of 2020.
Customers who use Disney Plus Premier Access to purchase Mulan will own Niki Caro’s epic for as long as they subscribe to the service, and the movie’s pre-order page on the app has revealed that it will be added to the content library for free exactly three months after it debuts next Friday, which is a relatively short window for a $200m action-packed adventure.
Let’s not kid ourselves and deny the fact that as soon as Mulan lands on Disney Plus, it’ll instantly become one of the most heavily-pirated movies in history as fans desperately try to avoid paying the $30 fee, and by the time those three months are up and it becomes free to watch anyone willing to shell out the extra cash to see it will have already done so long before then anyway.
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England vs Pakistan 2nd T20I at Manchester, Latest Updates: All Eyes on Weather after the first game was washed out. Eoin Morgan and Babar Azam would hope for a full game today.
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Besides Kohli, spin trio of Yuzvendra Chahal, Washington Sundar and Shahbaz Nadeem and a few pacers also trained and Kohli was pleased with the way they went about their business in the first session.
After a washed out first T20I, England and Pakistan would look to start afresh and register a win in Manchester on Sunday. Ever since the start of the Test series, weather has played a huge role, with second and third Tests ending in draws due to rain. Same was the fate of the T20I as well. But the forecast for the second T20I looks far more promising.
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