New media chrono for Disney+: Deadpool & Wolverine will be available in France from April

New media chrono for Disney+: Deadpool & Wolverine will be available in France from April

Instead of December 2025, in exchange for a massive investment in local and European productions.

Disney+ France has just announced a change in media chronology in favor of the streaming platform: now, studio productions can be broadcast online only 9 months after their cubiculous release, and no longer 17 months. This significant reduction in the broadcast window on their platform is made possible thanks to an agreement signed on Wednesday January 29 with French cinema organizations, the BLIC, the Bloc and the ARP, which accepted that all the Marvel, Star Wars And the group’s animated films, but also the productions of Century Studios (ex-Fox) and Searchlight Pictures, take advantage of this upheaval in the chronology of the media, provided that he massively contributed to French and European film and audiovisual production.

The latest update of this media chronology, signed in early 2022, favored Canal+, which saw its broadcast window reduced to six months, and Netflix, which unlike Prime, Apple TV+or Disney+, could disseminate new works on platform After 15 months instead of 17 by committing to produce more series and films in France.

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The managers of the company Aux Grandes ears were able to lower this duration to 9 months by agreeing to invest 25% of its annual turnover generated for three years in France (more than 115 billion over this period) in works Franco-European intended for cinema and streaming services. The deal therefore also includes an investment in the series. So far, it was 20%, and money was not at all distributed in the same way.

Concretely, over the next three years, Disney+ must invest in cinematographic creation and to participate in the financing of a minimum of 70 films over this period. They also undertake to ensure a diversity of genres and budgets. In exchange, a successful blockbuster such as Deadpool & Wolverinewhich attracted 3.7 million curious people to French rooms last summer, and was not to arrive on Disney+ in December 2025, will ultimately be visible on April 25 on the platform. Ditto later for Vaiana 2 Or MUFASA: The Lion Kingfor example, who hit theaters this winter this winter with 7.8 and 4.4 million admissions on the clock this winter, and which will therefore be available on Disney+ nine months after their cinema release.

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In detail, the 25% turnover devoted to French creation will be distributed in equal parts (12.5%) the first year between cinema and audiovisual. Then 14% will go to the cinema, and 11% at the audiovisual. Before signing this new agreement, Disney+ devoted 4% of its turnover to the cinema, and 16% at the audiovisual.

🎬 Disney will be able to broadcast its own films and French productions on its streaming platform 9 months after their release in theaters, against 17 currently, in exchange for reinforced investments in tricolor cinema, announced the American giant and the representatives of the 7th art.

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-Agency France-Presse (@afpfr.bsky.social) January 29, 2025 at 5:41 pm

The signatories of this new contract say they are delighted with this exchange “Giving giving”. Hélène Etzi, the president of The Walt Disney Company France comments with theAFP ::

“”This agreement marks an important step for French spectators. Making the films accessible to the greatest number, first in theaters, then much more quickly on the Disney+platform, is an essential first step to meet the uses of the French. This agreement testifies to Disney’s unwavering commitment to the public, and its desire to continue working with French talents and producers in the cinema and audiovisual sectors.“”

And here is the reaction of representatives of cinema organizations:

“”We are very happy that Disney+ joins the operators signatory to the chronology of the media who concluded a financing and dissemination agreement with cinema, allowing it to strengthen its support for French and European creation, and offer its subscribers recent films .“”

Finally, note that this approach follows that of Disney + leaders to move away from Canal +: the studio recently broke its distribution agreement with the chain, which is in parallel in the process of turn into a streaming platform And should no longer issue its different channels from June 2025. It is also Disney + which will broadcast the Oscars this year, on the night of March 2 to 3 live, and no longer Canal +.

This new interprofessional agreement on the media chronology is supervised by the Minister of Culture Rachida Dati, finally specifies theAFP.

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