Disney + Day is already underway. The multimedia platform of the mouse celebrates this Thursday a day of launches with the world premiere of Pinocchio in the head and with other contents that reach the streaming for the first time.
This year the event takes place the day before the start of the D23 Expo: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event conventionwhich will take place in Anaheim, California from Friday 9 September to Sunday 11 September.
Furthermore Pinocchiolast month’s streaming service surpassed Netflix for the first time in terms of subscribers, has rolled out previews across all of its subsidiary studios and brands available as of today (Thursday). We are talking about Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic and The Simpsons.
Pinocchio and the new Thor
Pinocchio is the first live action film and CGI technology (computer generated imagery) that rtransforms the 1940 Disney classic on a wooden puppet who dreams of becoming a real boy.
With live-action characters combined with animated ones, the film directed Robert Zemeckis features Tom Hanks as the legendary Geppettothe carpenter who builds and treats Pinocchio (voice of Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) as if he were his own son.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt enters the role of Jiminy Cricket, the guide and conscience of Pinocchio; and Cynthia Erivo is the Blue Fairy. The film marks the fourth collaboration between Hanks and Zemeckis since Forrest Gump -which earned both of us an Oscar-, Shipwrecked Y The polar espresso.
The other major Disney + Day premiere is Thor: Love and thunderthe brand new movie of the God of the hammer who is incarnate Chris Hemsworth and which was released in theaters on July 7th.
In the sequel, Thor must fight Gorr, the Butcher of the Gods (Christian Bale) and enlist the help of the King of Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), Korg (Taika Waititi) and his ex-girlfriend Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) who, at his surprised, he manages to wield his magic hammer, Mjolnir and become Thor.
A Latin series and documentaries about Obi-Wan and BTS
With unpublished films, personal stories and significant moments, the documentary Obi-Wan Kenobi: Return of the Jedi It’s another one of the platform’s previews for this Disney + Day.
The film speaks how the original Lucasfilm series was madean epic story about Star Wars’ most beloved Jedi that begins ten years after the dramatic events of Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
unknown landan original series for teenagers produced entirely in Latin America, also debuted this Thursday 8th. It stars the Argentine Pedro Maurizi, winner of the Dancing for a Dream Children in 2009-, and has a full cast of local actors like Mora Fisz, Toto Kirzner, Silvia Kutika and Lautaro Delgado.
Maurizi plays Eric Dalaras, a teenager raised by his maternal grandparents alongside his sister Uma (Mora Fisz). Eric decides to run away from home and return to his childhood town of Cape Qwert to find answers at the Tierra Incógnita horror theme park, where his parents were last seen.
Disney’s surprise announcement for this day is BTS: Permission to dance on stagea documentary on the live concerts held by the popular group of guys South Korean at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles in late 2021.
The film includes performances from many of the group’s hits, including Dynamite, Butter and Permission to Dance. BTS, which stands for Bangtan Sonyeondan or Beyond the Scene (in Spanish, “beyond the scene”), is the most famous K-Pop band, with millions of fans around the world since its debut in June 2013.
Other news and the D23 Expo
The list of news is long. In addition to the new episodes of She-Hulk: Defender of Heroesthe series debuts Cars: road adventures; Y Growingdocumentary series created by Brie Larson that explores the challenges, triumphs and complexities of adolescence.
And the titles follow: The adventures of Bertie Gregory is a National Geographic series hosted by this 29-year-old explorer who tries to break the mold of the traditional natural history program by telling extraordinary stories of real-life animals.
To it are added two new versions of Frozen sings together; and a new short film by The Simpsons titled Welcome to the Club, Lisa Simpsonwhere Lisa is determined to become a princess.
On the other hand, the fan event of D23 Expo, which takes place this weekend, You can see it on Disney +: it will show summaries of the most important announcements that the platform did the day before, the best moments and the behind the scenes of the convention, with special contents that will be available on Saturday and Sunday starting at 24:00. from Argentina.
On the platform will also be available the trailers of the productions that will be announced at the D23 Expo so that fans can enjoy the upcoming releases.
As part of the Disney + Day celebrations, the streaming service offered promotions to encourage new customers: by 3am on September 20, you can access a one-month subscription for the last 149 pesos.
Source: Clarin
