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[Bosco685]

1 minute ago, sagekilz said:

I'm now officially sold. 

I've been hungry to see news about these show as they were such cool influences for their time but never converted to HD quality.

[sagekilz]

2 minutes ago, Bosco685 said:

I've been hungry to see news about these show as they were such cool influences for their time but never converted to HD quality.

YEARS (10-15 years?) ago I bought a bootlegged X-Men the Animated series complete set on eBay .  Horrible quality but I was 10 years old again and loved every second of it.

And hopefully some "Marvel's New Warriors" news will surface as well.

Edited September 12, 2019 by sagekilz

[Bosco685]

4 minutes ago, sagekilz said:

And hopefully some "Marvel's New Warriors" news will surface as well.

[sagekilz]

Excuse the ignorance, but is there something I'm not seeing on the Disney+ site that allows you sign up?  I'm not a D23 member for what it's worth.

[Bosco685]

23 minutes ago, sagekilz said:

Excuse the ignorance, but is there something I'm not seeing on the Disney+ site that allows you sign up?  I'm not a D23 member for what it's worth.

I think it comes down to the early sign-up promotion is only offered to any D23 member (including FREE accounts). So I wonder if this is just not out there yet until the service goes live in November at the Domestic Market?

[sagekilz]

Thank you as always @Bosco685!

[Bosco685]

JUST WATCH: All Movies and tv shows on Disney Plus

Really great consolidated interface that presents all the content under each streaming service. But it also demonstrated how distributed streaming entertainment has become.

[fantastic_four]

I've been using JustWatch for about two years, LOVE it.  It's the most efficient way to figure out which services are offering a specific movie or show you're interested in watching.  I'm really surprised that a service like theirs hasn't become the most popular content guide out there, it's better than any others I've ever used.

[Bosco685]

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Disney+ is set to launch and November and it seems the streaming service will offer Marvel fans the full home media movie-watching experience. A trial version of the streaming service is live now in the Netherlands. On Reddit, one fan using the service revealed that the service includes special features and deleted scenes as is found on physical home media releases. A screenshot of the service shows some of the special extras from Avengers: Infinity War. This kind of bonus content are expected from home media releases of blockbuster films. Fans are sure to be glad to see they won’t be lost in the jump to streaming.

 

Avengers: Infinity War will not be available to customers in North America when Disney+ launches in the region. The four Marvel movies available at launch in the market are Iron Man, Iron Man 3, Captain Marvel, and Thor: The Dark World. Avengers: Endgame will join the lineup on December 11th. Seven more Marvel movies are expected the come to Disney+ in the streaming service’s first year, including Infinity War. The others are Ant-Man and the Wasp, Black Panther, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, Iron Man 2 and Thor: Ragnarok.

 

Beginning with Captain Marvel, every Marvel Studios film is expected to make Disney+ its home going forward. The delay on previous movies is due to existing licensing deals. If all goes according to plan, Marvel fans should soon be able to host an entire Marvel Cinematic Universe movie marathon without ever having to leave the Disney+ app.

 

[Bosco685]

Uh-Ohhhh. All that Marvel Studios content just may have caused a major shift.

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As Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige builds out his own TV universe spawned from the “Avengers” films, Marvel’s dedicated television unit is seeing its live-action world contract.

 

Feige’s division — part of the Walt Disney Studios feature-film operation — is currently working on multiple shows for the nascent streamer Disney Plus centered on Marvel Cinematic Universe characters like Falcon and Winter Soldier, as well as Loki, and Vision and Scarlet Witch, with shows based on She-Hulk, Ms. Marvel, and Moon Knight also in the works. Meanwhile, with Hulu having this week killed a planned series based on the character Ghost Rider, Marvel Television — the division of Marvel Entertainment responsible for the comic-book publisher’s initial push into live-action TV under Disney ownership — now has few announced live-action projects on the air or in the works.

 

According to multiple industry sources who spoke with Variety, the perception throughout the entertainment business is that live-action productions will be mostly if not completely moved away from Marvel Television, headed by veteran exec and producer Jeph Loeb, as Feige’s unit ramps up production on its own Marvel series projects.

 

“Feige’s shows are so far beyond anything Marvel TV has been able to do,” one TV lit agent who spoke with Variety said. “He has access to all of these MCU characters that the other Marvel live-action stuff just doesn’t, not to mention way bigger budgets.”

 

A Marvel Television insider told Variety that the company has several live-action projects at various stages of development. A spokesperson for Marvel Television declined to comment. Marvel Studios did not respond to a request for comment.

 

[fantastic_four]

On 9/27/2019 at 6:00 PM, Bosco685 said:

According to multiple industry sources who spoke with Variety, the perception throughout the entertainment business is that live-action productions will be mostly if not completely moved away from Marvel Television, headed by veteran exec and producer Jeph Loeb, as Feige’s unit ramps up production on its own Marvel series projects.

Most of us here were probably guessing the same thing when we first heard about these Disney Plus shows.  It seems rather obvious aside from the idea that Kevin Feige may never get a chance to sleep again.  

I just hope he's at least TRYING to build up a stable of fanboy consiglieres to spread the work out.  He can't produce everything.

[Bosco685]

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• Spider-Woman was produced by DePatie–Freleng Enterprises and Marvel Comics Animation. The series aired sixteen episodes from September 1979 through January 1980.
• Spider-Man's first animated series. Peter Parker tries to balance his life's responsibilities as a student, photographer, and Aunt May's caretaker.
• Set in the same continuity as Spider-Man, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends saw Spidey teaming up with Iceman and the brand new character Firestar. Together, the Spider-Friends fought villains from across the Marvel Universe.
• Also known as X-Men: The Animated Series, X-Men debuted in 1992, at the height of the X-Men's popularity. The cartoon aired originally on Fox Kids Network, introduced an entire generation to the Marvel Universe, and produced one of the best-known cartoon theme songs of all time.
• Also known as Iron Man: The Animated Series, this series brought Tony Stark to life almost 15 years before Robert Downey Jr. was cast in the live-action role. The series aired in syndication as part of the Marvel Action Hour.
• Also known as Fantastic Four: The Animated Series, this is the third time the Fantastic Four were adapted into animation. It was the other half of the Marvel Action Hour and ran for 26 episodes. 
• Also known as Spider-Man: The Animated Series, this show launched as a companion to X-Men on Fox Kids Network. The series featured appearances by several other Marvel characters, including the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, War Machine, Daredevil, Blade, Doctor Strange, the Punisher and Captain America.
• The Incredible Hulk ran on UPN for 21 episodes from 1996 to 1997. Lou Ferrigno, who played the Hulk in the live-action TV series that ran from 1978 to 1982, voiced the Hulk. The show featured cameo appearances from several other Marvel characters. The title was later changed to The Incredible Hulk and She-Hulk when She-Hulk was made a regular member of the cast.
• Also known as Silver Surfer: The Animated Series, this series fused cel and computer animation. The show ran for one season on Fox Kids Network in 1998.
• Also known as simply The Avengers, The Avengers: United They Stand ran for 13 episodes beginning in October 1999 before it was canceled in February 2000. The Avengers roster featured in the show was based on that featured in West Coast Avengers and included Ant-Man, Wasp, Wonder Man, Tigra, Hawkeye, Falcon, Vision, and Scarlet Witch.
• Spider-Man Unlimited was produced by Saban Entertainment and was canceled after airing just a handful of episodes when its ratings couldn't compete with the breakout Pokemon/Digimon trend of the era. Fox Kids brought it back later and aired 13 episodes only to end the show with an unresolved cliffhanger.
• X-Men: Evolution ran on Kids WB for 52 episodes from November 2000 through October 2003. It's the third longest-running Marvel animated series ever behind the 1990s X-Men and Spider-Man shows. X-Men: Evolution reimagined most of the X-Men as teenagers attending a public high school in addition to training their mutant powers at Xavier's school.
• The Fantastic Four's fourth animated series, Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes combined traditionally animated and 3D computer animation. The series was animated by French studio MoonSCoop Group. The show's 26 episodes aired sporadically, debuting on Toonami before disappearing after its eighth episode, returning to the block, bouncing to Boomerang, and ending its run on Nicktoons.
• Iron Man: Armored Adventures was produced to take advantage of the popularity of Marvel's first live-action Iron Man film. The computer-animated show recasts Tony Stark as a child prodigy who is also the hero Iron Man. He is aided by his friends Pepper Potts and James "Rhodey" Rhodes.
• The X-Men's fourth animated series, Wolverine and the X-Men, took Professor X off the board and put Logan in charge of the team. The series ran for 26 episodes and was intended to run for at least 26 more, but financial problems following Disney's acquisition of Marvel Entertainment led to the second season being canceled mid-production.
• The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes aired for two seasons as part of the new Marvel Universe block on Disney XD. The show's first season is heavily-influenced by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee's original Avengers comics and features the original Avengers roster. The second season grows the team with new members and borrows ideas from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
• Ultimate Spider-Man debuted as part of the Marvel Universe block on Disney XD. The show's writers included Brian Michael Bendis, who wrote the entirety of the Ultimate Spider-Man comic book series for Marvel. The series was retitled Ultimate Spider-Man: Web Warriors in its third season and Ultimate Spider-Man vs. the Sinister 6 in its fourth and final season.
• Avengers Assemble was introduced as the follow-up to The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. The series is much more inspired by the Marvel Cinematic Universe version of the Avengers than its predecessor.
• Hulk and the Agents of SMASH saw the incredible Hulk leading a team of gamma-infused heroes that included A-Bomb, She-Hulk, Red Hulk, and Skaar, going up against foes like Leader. The series was part of the Marvel Universe block on Disney XD.
• The success of the 2014 Guardians of the Galaxy film spawned the Guardians of the Galaxy animated series the following year. The show ran for three seasons, with its final season adding the subtitle Mission: Breakout!
• Also known as Marvels Spider-Man, this series replaced Ultimate Spider-Man on Disney XD. The show is headed into its third season when it will be retitled Marvel's Spider-Man: Maximum Venom.

Good Lord! It is a Marvel animated series fan dream-come-true. 

[Cozmo-One]

1 hour ago, Bosco685 said:

Good Lord! It is a Marvel animated series fan dream-come-true. 

Yes, finally get to see the true first appearance of X-23 

[Bosco685]

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Disney unleashed a massive onslaught of tweets Monday morning, officially revealing the movies and series that will be available on Disney+ when it launches next month. The barrage of tweets included just six films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — Iron Man, Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and the previously-announced Captain Marvel. That means there's still 17 movies from Marvel Studios that won't be on the new direct-to-consumer service — at least immediately, that is.

 

With Disney throwing all sorts of cash into its latest focus, why wouldn't it put every film in its largest franchise on the new streaming platform? It essentially comes down to rights issues...and being patient.

 

First and foremost, there is still a group of movies that are currently available on Netflix, meaning that contract has to lapse before they're available to switch platforms. The MCU flicks currently on Netflix include Thor: Ragnarok, Black Panther, and Avengers: Infinity War.

 

After that, things do admittedly do start to get fuzzy. Despite Disney purchasing Marvel prior to 2010, Paramount continued to handle distribution of all Marvel Studios movies through Joss Whedon's The Avengers, meaning rights for films like Iron Man 2, Captain America: The First Avenger, and Thor could take a moment to sort out. Then, of course, there's The Incredible Hulk, a movie that has it's distribution rights owned by Universal, another roadblock for Disney and Marvel Studios to get around.

 

Probably the most obvious explanations of the bunch would be the rights issues surrounding Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Home, two movies owned by Sony. To date, it's still unclear when — or even if — those two movies will be added to the service. As for everything else, it's likely just a matter of time before the movies hit Disney+. Though it's unclear if Disney+ is planning a monthly rollout of films like Netflix and Hulu, we already do know Avengers: Endgame will be added to the service in the month following its launch.

 

[fantastic_four]

17 hours ago, Bosco685 said:

Spider-Man's first animated series. Peter Parker tries to balance his life's responsibilities as a student, photographer, and Aunt May's caretaker.

I assume this is the one from 1967 that the famous "Spider-Man, Spider-Man, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man!" theme song came from.  I have this one on DVD and both of my kids love it and have seen every episode 3-5 times.

Really looking forward to this service launching.  I listened to someone run down every digital service Disney has started over the last 25 years, and thus far EVERY one of them has sucked and/or failed.  Hopefully this time they get it right.  

[Bosco685]

Although it is Marvel Studios that markets itself the best where you would assume Disney+ is all about the MCU going forward, that thinking would ignore all the other Marvel Entertainment, Star Wars, Pixar, National Geographics and Disney Entertainment content that will be jam-packed as part of this service offering.

So much content, this little Disney+ Instagram quick glimpse video will make you feel like a seizure is coming on trying to keep up with it all.

 

[Bosco685]

 

[Bosco685]

On 9/18/2019 at 8:00 AM, Bosco685 said:

JUST WATCH: All Movies and tv shows on Disney Plus

Really great consolidated interface that presents all the content under each streaming service. But it also demonstrated how distributed streaming entertainment has become.

Just a quick snapshot of the content focus via Just Watch.

[fantastic_four]

I have two main questions about Disney Plus:

• Can you download anything for offline viewing?
• What resolutions will it support?  2K max, or will it do 4K?

[Bosco685]

1 hour ago, fantastic_four said:

I have two main questions about Disney Plus:

• Can you download anything for offline viewing?
• What resolutions will it support?  2K max, or will it do 4K?

I can at least address the dowloads topic, as a few weeks back this came up as one of the service value propositions. Especially when it comes to the 'Disney Vault' concept where it likes to pull back offers over time to drive more interest later on.

If a TV show or film that was initially offered later on is stored away in 'The Vault' and yet you had downloaded it in advance, it will remain available to you only as long as you stay enrolled in Disney+. Even though it will not be available to everyone else. So yes, downloads will be supported.