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Price hikes for streaming TV has become a new holiday tradition, as Netflix, Disney+ and Hulu have increased their subscription prices ahead of 2021. For that reason, year-end is a good time to confirm how much you’re paying for subscriptions, and cancel those that you’re barely using.Read more...

Holidays mean happiness. Whether that’s a chance to laugh with your friends and family in a normal year, or just be as safe and healthy as you can in 2020, everyone can use a little extra joy as we reach the end of any year. Movies can absolutely help with that, but sometimes it’s hard to pick one that hits the right…Read more...

Since Disney+ launched in 2019, the streaming service has acquired over 86 million paid subscribers, and this month at Disney’s Investors Day event they announced development on 100 new projects between 2021 and 2024. Out of those projects, 80% will be streaming on Disney+. So how will Disney keep up with their…Read more...

Every year my family follows a strict holiday watch list, including a rule that The Muppet Christmas Carol must only be viewed on Christmas day—no earlier. The Muppet Christmas Carol is Jim Henson’s take on the classic transformation story of Ebenezer Scrooge. With characters like Ganzo and Rizzo The Rat adding…Read more...

Last week, during an investor conference call masquerading as entertaining content (or vice versa) Disney announced an exhausting number of new Disney+ series and films arriving over the next few years, most of them having something to do with the Marvel or Star Wars franchises. The majority of those are a long way…Read more...

Disney announced an impressive roster of series coming to Disney Plus over the next few years, with the most exciting news coming from Lucas Films and Marvel Studios. The Star Wars saga began in media res almost five decades ago with what became episode four in its sequential order, and since then has moved both…Read more...

Disney has struggled during quarantine, forced to forgo substantial theatrical returns for probable hits like Mulan and Soul in favor of streaming, delay the next phase of the Marvel moneymaking machine until 2021 at the earliest, and shutter or severely curtail business at its parks (laying off tens of thousands of…Read more...

Come Christmas day, we will officially be two Pixar films deep into quarantine.Way back in March, right before the pandemic made the idea of going to see a movie in the theater as laughable and ill-advised as trying to have a reasonable discussion about politics with your in-laws, Disney released Pixar’s Onward, a…Read more...

Yesterday, Netflix announced its first price hike in nearly two years. (Adam Sandler originals like Hubie Halloween don’t pay for themselves.) The new plans have changed to:Read more...

Viewers are turning to streaming entertainment more than ever thanks to the global pandemic, and the plethora of services can serve as a much-needed escape. At the start of each month, most streamers do a little shuffle, adding new movies and taking some away, and io9 is here to help with your decision making.Read more...

The Star Wars Holiday Special is one of the most infamous, cursed television programs ever produced. Airing during the 1978 holiday season, more than a year after Star Wars premiered in theaters and became a sensation, it was created as a quick cash-in between films—a fact that was obvious to anyone who watched it…Read more...

Disney+ just launched its GroupWatch feature for US customers, which lets up to seven people watch the same Disney+ show or movie together remotely and complete in sync. Plenty of other streaming apps and media companies offer similar watch party features, but Disney+’s GroupWatch is more streamlined—and more…Read more...

It has been almost a year since Baby Yoda (not his—her?—real name) first graced our screens at the end of the series premiere of the Disney+ Star Wars spinoff The Mandalorian, and the internet has never been the same. Through a worsening pandemic, economic turmoil, political upheaval and the run-up to an election that…Read more...

Disney no doubt wants me to use this free advertising space to promote the digital premiere of Mulan, that spring blockbuster that wasn’t—and sure, if you want to spend $30 on top of your existing monthly Disney+ subscription to “own” (if only in the 2020 “no one actually owns media anymore” sense) this…Read more...

Whether you were willing to wait for it or not, you’ll no longer have to after today: On July 3, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s revolutionary, Tony Award-winning Broadway musical blockbuster Hamilton is coming to Disney+. I can’t think of a better way to kick off the Fourth of July weekend than by hosting a virtual Hamilton…Read more...

Ever since Disney+, the company’s streaming service, launched in November 2019, it has quickly become a *family favorite (*including families of one). Although there were a few glitches in its first few weeks, those appear to be fixed, and users have since been able to focus on features like recommendation lists. But…Read more...

Almost every day between March 17, 2016 and March 12, 2020—when Broadway turned off its lights amid the global pandemic—I started each morning by entering the #Ham4Ham lottery, hoping to win a pair of $10 tickets to see Lin-Manuel Miranda’s zeitgeist-transforming Broadway musical Hamilton performed on Broadway. I even…Read more...

Things are not particularly calm right now, so most people are looking for anything that can soothe them, even for only a few minutes. For some, this can mean rewatching the movies they loved as a child. For others, it can mean watching ASMR videos on YouTube. Now, thanks to a new series on Disney+, you no longer have…Read more...