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Disney+ is expanding next year with the addition of Star and a lot of new content

Luke HendersonDisney+, Disney, TV
Disney+ is expanding next year with the addition of Star and a lot of new content

During the Walt Disney Company Investor Day, it was announced that Disney+, at least in Australia and New Zealand, would grow on February 23rd, with the addition of a sixth main panel, Star.

The Star brand will serve as home to thousands of hours of television and movies from Disney’s creative studios, including Disney Television Studios, FX, 20th Century Studios, 20th Television, and more, enhanced by the addition of local programming from the regions where available.

The basic gist is that if the show, movie, documentary or such is exclusive to Hulu in the USA, then it will be on Star here, there will be exceptions of course, shows that already have existing contacts will not join the line up.

With the addition of a the new panel, the price for Disney+ will also increase, and that will happen on the same day as the Star service comes online. Here are the prices, per month and yearly, for Australia and New Zealand:

  • Australia: $11.99/month or $119.99/annual

  • New Zealand: $12.99/month or $129.99/annual

Of course, there were plenty of shows announced for the Disney+ service, the Marvel and Lucasfilm ones we highlighted already. You can learn all about the new Star Wars shows here, the existing Marvel shows here and the newly detailed Marvel shows here.

But there are more shows coming from Disney, Pixar, Walt Disney Animation, Hulu and FX, here is the list of the big announcements

Disney Television

Shows

  • Beauty and the Beast (working title) - starring Luke Evans and Josh Gad with new music composed by Alan Menken

  • Swiss Family Robinson - which is a reimagining of the classic from Ron Moore and Jon M. Chu.

  • Percy Jackson and the Olympians based on the bestselling book series by Rick Riordan from Disney Publishing Worldwide

Movies

  • The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers

  • Big Shot

  • The Mysterious Benedict Society

  • Turner & Hooch

National Geographic

  • Limitless With Chris Hemsworth

  • Welcome to Earth (working title) featuring Will Smith

  • Genius - Season 4 - Profiling Martin Luther King Jr

Hulu/Star

  • Only Murders in the Building

  • Nine Perfect Strangers

  • The Dropout

  • Dopesick

  • Untitled Kardashian/Jenners series

FX

  • Alien (Based on the popular movie series)

  • The Stones

  • Shogun

  • The Old Man

  • American Horror Stories

  • Platform

  • Reservation Dogs

  • Y: The Last Man

Walt Disney Studios

Movies

  • Hocus Pocus 2

  • Three Men and a Baby (Starring Zac Efron)

  • Cheaper By The Dozen (Staring Gabrielle Union)

  • Sister Act 3 (Starring Whoppi Goldberg)

  • Chip ‘N Dale: Rescue Rangers (a hybrid live action-animated film starring John Mulaney and Andy Samberg)

  • Pinocchio (directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks)

  • Peter Pan & Wendy (starring Jude Law as Captain Hook and Yara Shahidi as Tinker Bell)

  • Disenchanted (with Amy Adams returning as Giselle)

  • Greek Freak (about NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo)

  • Diary of a Wimpy Kid

  • The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (starring Simon Pegg)

  • Night at the Museum

Walt Disney Animation Studios

Shows

  • Baymax

  • Zootopia+

  • Tiana

  • Moana - The Series

  • Iwájú

Pixar Animation Studios

Shows

  • Win or Lose

  • Inside Pixar

  • Pixar Popcorn

  • Dug Days

  • Cars

Movies

  • Soul (Out on Dec 25)