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Disney+ streaming app is HALF the price of Netflix – with Star Wars, Marvel and every Simpsons episode
The service will include the entire Disney motion picture library
DISNEY has just confirmed the release date and price of its new streaming service.
The Netflix rival has also revealed that original Star Wars and Marvel spin-off programmes are currently under development and will be available on the platform.
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It was revealed at an event in California that Disney+ will be released in the US on 12 November.
The service will cost users $6.99 (£5.35) a month – around half the price of the Netflix 4K plan, which costs £9.99, and less than half in the US, where it costs $16.
Netflix has been testing higher pricing of £12 in the UK however, so the Disney+ service could be even better value down the line.
All 30 seasons of The Simpsons will be available to stream from the platform as Disney acquired the long running animated comedy earlier this year.
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We also know that some of the upcoming spin off series will expand the stories of some of Marvels best known characters like Tom Hiddleston’s character Loki and Captain America’s side-kicks Falcon and Winter Solider.
Disney+ will also include the entire Disney motion picture library.
Last year, reported that Disney CEO Bob Iger said the companies main priority was reaching the core Disney fans and hinted that the "substantially cheaper" than Netflix pricing wouldn't increase until the content did.
He said: "We want to walk before we run when it comes to volume of content."
He also added: "We have to put enough on to make sense from a price-to-value relationship perspective."
Disney has not yet revealed any release date or price information for countries other than the US.
The most successful animated Disney films of all time
Here are Disney's highest grossing animated films...
- Disney's Frozen is the highest grossing animated film in the world and is in the top five highest grossing films of all time with current profits at over $1 billion(£770,000,000)
- Closely behind Frozen is the Inredibles 2 movie which has also earned over $1 billion
- Nostalgia inducing Toy Story 3 is also very popular
- Finding Dory actually created slightly more profit than the hugely successful Finding Nemo with the former grossing over $1 billion world wide
- 90's animated classic The Lion King is still up there in the top 10 most successful animated films and has made just under $1 billion since its release in 1994
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