- Disney made a surprise announcement on Friday, revealing that the recently released Pixar film Onward will be immediately available for purchase online.
- The move follows Universal’s similar initiative to launch a few upcoming movies directly online in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
- Could Disney do the same thing with bigger films set to launch this year, including Black Widow, whose May 1st launch was just canceled?
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Manufacturing, travel, restaurants, and entertainment are just a few industries that will take massive hits in the near future due to the coronavirus pandemic. Some of them can adapt to weather the storm. Restaurants can deliver food, and entertainment can move online. To that point, Universal announced earlier this week that several of its 2020 theatrical releases will be available online on the day they hit theaters, which is an interesting development for the movie business.
Most companies have delayed the premieres of their upcoming releases, and some theater chains have already closed, which means other films scheduled to launch during this period will have to find somewhere new to launch. Disney is apparently ready to do a bit of both, and it’ll be interesting to see what it means for one of its biggest films of the year, Marvel’s Black Widow, which was originally scheduled to launch on May 1st.
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Disney’s ‘Onward’ is already available online – could ‘Black Widow’ be next? originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 20 Mar 2020 at 15:52:40 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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