KUALA LUMPUR (May 5): Media Prima Bhd has been overlooked by the market as the potential beneficiary of Disney+ Hotstar’s entry into Malaysia, according to a local research house.
In a note today, CGS-CIMB Research said much of the local content that will be added to the subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service’s library is produced by Media Prima’s Primeworks Studios.
“We suspect these programmes and movies have been fully amortised since they are mostly dated content. Thus, most of the amount that Disney pays to Media Prima for the content should theoretically trickle down to the latter’s bottom line,” said its analysts Kamarul Anwar and Mohd Shanaz Noor Azam.
Disney+ Hotstar officially launching in Malaysia on 1 June, price package is RM54.90 for three months
Abel Wong - May 04, 2021
Today, the news of Disney+ launching in Malaysia is finally coming true. As expected like our neighbour, Singapore, the name will be
Disney+ Hotstar and will start streaming on 1 June 2021. Besides the huge library collection of Disney movies, Star Wars and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there will be local contents as well such as
J2 J Retribusi,
Zombitopia and more.
So how does this work? Well, you can watch this on Astro or online (iOS and Android). The package fee that was introduced so far starts from RM54.90 for three months. In comparison with the Netflix Premium package, that s a lot way affordable since it s just around RM18 per month. There s also a special package with Astro, which Movie Pack customers can just add the platform for an additional RM5 per month (read more about it here).
The Walt Disney Company in Malaysia today as it has officially launched the
Astro is the local partner for Disney+ Hotstar Malaysia.
Officially, The Walt Disney Company referred to Astro as the official distributor of the streaming service in Malaysia. This allows the pay-TV operator to offer Disney+ Hotstar to its customers which is generally similar to the deal that it already has with HBO and iQIYI.
Specifically, access to Disney+ Hotstar Malaysia will be made available for Astro customers that have a subscription to its Movie Pack. However, it will come at an additional cost of RM 5 per month on top of their existing monthly fee.