Brandis remembers attending the March premiere of Niki Caro’s
Mulan at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles and then “everything shut down on the next Monday,” she says.
Mulan was pulled from its March 27 release date and again from a July opening, at which point it became clear that audiences wouldn’t be returning to theaters anytime soon. That’s when Brandis, who heads the studios’ business affairs, got to work redrawing deals that would allow
Mulan to have a premium debut on Disney+ in September before being available to all subscribers in December. She similarly ushered the filmed staged production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s