{"id":117027,"date":"2020-08-22T01:12:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T01:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/20\/08\/22\/disney-to-offer-mulan-as-30-in-app-purchase-on-ios-apple-tv"},"modified":"2020-08-22T01:12:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T01:12:07","slug":"disney-to-offer-mulan-as-30-in-app-purchase-on-ios-apple-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/22\/disney-to-offer-mulan-as-30-in-app-purchase-on-ios-apple-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney+ to offer ‘Mulan’ as $30 in-app purchase on iOS, Apple TV"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Disney on Friday announced distribution plans for the hotly anticipated live action remake of “Mulan,” saying the VOD release will be available to Disney+ subscribers as an in-app purchase. <\/p>\n

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The entertainment giant earlier in August<\/a> said the film would hit Disney+<\/a> as a paid exclusive on “premier platforms,” but failed to name partner providers, Deadline<\/em> reports. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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According to a Disney+ webpage<\/a>, “Mulan” will be available from Sept. 4 as an in-app purchase on Apple, Roku and Google platforms. The film is also set to go up for purchase through Disney’s website.\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Disney+ subscribers are slated to get access to the film following its September premiere, though a streaming date has not been announced. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The move comes amid controversy surrounding app store fees implemented by Apple and Google, each of which faces lawsuits from developers for taking a slice of in-app transactions. By making “Mulan” available as an in-app Disney+ “premium” purchase, Disney subjects its film to app store fees, which in Apple’s case is 30%. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“We thought we would give it a try, to try to recapture some of that investment that we’ve got,” said Bob Chapek, CEO of The Walt Disney Company. Chapek characterized the “one-off” strategy as a “a chance to learn,” Deadline<\/em> reports. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Disney on Friday announced distribution plans for the hotly anticipated live action remake of “Mulan,” saying the VOD release will be available to Disney+ subscribers as an in-app purchase. The entertainment giant earlier in August said the film would hit Disney+ as a paid exclusive on “premier platforms,” but failed to name partner providers, Deadline […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-insider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}