Disney+ adds grown-up content with Star, but it’ll cost you
The family-friendly streaming service adds hundreds of mature movies and TV shows... and nudges its price up
By Norman Wilner
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Doug Jones and Sally Hawkins in Guillermo Del Toro's The Shape Of Water, coming to the Disney+ adult-oriented Star tier in February.
Ever since Disney launched Disney+ in November 2019, people have been asking when this or that favourite movie or television series would be available on the streaming service.
If Disney owned the 20
th Century Fox catalogue, where were the Alien and Die Hard movies? What about Disney’s slightly more grown-up Touchstone Pictures library, which stretches back to the 80s and includes beloved titles like Beaches, Pretty Woman and Romy And Michele’s High School Reunion?