Strange World will be coming to Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar on December 23, the company announced in a tweet. Disney’s latest animated project based on a Dr. Seuss-esque, vibrant planets arrives just 29 days after its worldwide premiere on November 25th. That’s a new low for a Disney animated film — less than a month — since the studio implemented a 45th-day window before theatrical releases would be available to stream. With a reported budget of US$180 million (approx. Rs. 1,488 billion), Strange World only managed to raise a total of US$53.5 million (approx. Rs. 442 billion) worldwide, indicating that Disney is preparing to faces a huge loss.
However, this shrinking window has been prominent of late Disney Animated films, including the Oscar-winning Movie Encanto, which was available on the streaming service 30 days after its theatrical release on November 24 last year in the US or 28 days after its November 26 launch in India. whereas, To reddenThe first pixar Film, set to be directed exclusively by a woman, Domee Shi, has been switched from a planned theatrical release to streaming due to the surge in COVID-19 Omicron cases. Strange world The case isn’t helped by the fact that Disney is looking into drop-on streaming for the holiday season.
While it had a star-studded cast, overridden by the voices of Jake Gyllenhaal (night owls) and Dennis Quaid (Footloose), Disney’s marketing campaign for strange world never addressed the story or its characters. The company merely made sure to alert the audience that one of its main characters, Ethan (Jaboukie Young-White), was public gay – a first for the studio. Last month when Bob Iger hosted a company-wide meeting upon his return as CEO The Walt Disney Companyhe was questioned about the studio’s stance LGBTQ+ Recording. reports suggested the company was caught paying nearly $200,000 (approx.
“One of the core values of our storytelling is inclusion, acceptance and tolerance. And we can’t lose that, we just can’t lose that…how we actually change the world through good has to keep going. We won’t always make everyone happy, and neither are we [going to] try to. We’re certainly not going to lower our core values to keep everyone happy all the time,” Iger said at the meeting (via diversity).
Disney’s Strange World follows the Clades, a legendary family of explorers who are invited to a vibrant planet to save the world from “great peril”. However, when Searcher Clade (Gyllenhaal) reaches the uncharted, pink-tinted world whose waters can dissolve flesh from bones, he encounters his long-lost, heroic father, Jaeger Clade (Quaid), who sets in motion a family drama with occasional pauses in fighting voracious creatures. The film also features the voices of Gabrielle Union and Lucy Liu.
Strange World will be released on December 23rd Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar wherever available.
