MUMBAI: Disney has planned to stream full-length movies on its website as a part of its "Wonderful World of Disney" series on ABC. The film will be streamed in the month of August.
The films will first be shown on ABC‘s Wonderful World of Disney on Saturday nights. The films will then be available on www.Disney.com the next day and will stay on the site for a week.
The movies that will be made available include ‘Finding Nemo‘, ‘Monsters Inc.‘, ‘Haunted Mansion‘, ‘Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen‘, ‘Princess Diaries 2‘, ‘Freaky Friday‘ and ‘Peter Pan‘. The decision to stream movies for free is part of the company‘s online strategy.
At present Disney Channel streams episodes of its series online for free. Disney.com will also stream Disney Channel‘s original movie ‘Camp Rock‘ on 23 June for a 24-hour window after its 20 June TV premiere and subsequent airings - 21 June on ABC and June 22 on ABC Family.
Fox, Universal, Lionsgate and MGM have all previously placed titles on the NBC Universal/News Corp. owned site Hulu.
