Axed Fan Favorite Disney Streaming Series Cost Just $17 Million Per Episode
The post Axed Fan Favorite Disney Streaming Series Cost Just $17 Million Per Episode appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. At $17 million per episode, ‘Willow’ came in at a much lower cost than many other high profile Disney+ series. ©2022 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved. Amanda Searle / Lucasfilm Ltd. A cut-price streaming series based on a beloved franchise with a fervent fanbase sounds like a dream ticket which could run for season after season. Not for Disney. Filings released by the studio this week reveal that the total net cost of its sword and sorcery streaming series Willow came to $136.3 million giving it an average price tag of just $17 million across each of its eight episodes which premiered in November 2022. It is a staggering 45.3% cheaper than Disney’s Marvel Studios streaming show Secret Invasion and 27.3% less than its Star Wars streaming series The Acolyte. Remarkably, Willow only cost around 20% more per episode than Gary Oldman’s spy drama Slow Horses which lacks lavish visual effects and has run for five seasons so far. However, despite Willow’s impeccable cost control, Disney brought the curtain down on the show after just one season. That’s not all as it was one of nearly 50 titles pulled from the Disney+ streaming platform in May 2023 angering Warwick Davis, who gives a commanding performance as the eponymous sorcerer. Writing on X last year he posted a photo of himself on the Willow set with the caption “it’s a travesty that @DisneyPlus value shareholders over subscribers in their creative decision-making. #Justsaying I only ever saw each episode once!” He had previously called the removal of the series “embarrassing” saying on X that he meets “lovely people on a daily basis who are fans” of Willow, and “who are the reason the @DisneyPlus Series was made.” Addressing his message to Disney, he said “what do I say to these…
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At $17 million per episode, ‘Willow’ came in at a much lower cost than many other high profile Disney+ series. ©2022 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved. Amanda Searle / Lucasfilm Ltd. A cut-price streaming series based on a beloved franchise with a fervent fanbase sounds like a dream ticket which could run for season after season. Not for Disney. Filings released by the studio this week reveal that the total net cost of its sword and sorcery streaming series Willow came to $136.3 million giving it an average price tag of just $17 million across each of its eight episodes which premiered in November 2022. It is a staggering 45.3% cheaper than Disney’s Marvel Studios streaming show Secret Invasion and 27.3% less than its Star Wars streaming series The Acolyte. Remarkably, Willow only cost around 20% more per episode than Gary Oldman’s spy drama Slow Horses which lacks lavish visual effects and has run for five seasons so far. However, despite Willow’s impeccable cost control, Disney brought the curtain down on the show after just one season. That’s not all as it was one of nearly 50 titles pulled from the Disney+ streaming platform in May 2023 angering Warwick Davis, who gives a commanding performance as the eponymous sorcerer. Writing on X last year he posted a photo of himself on the Willow set with the caption “it’s a travesty that @DisneyPlus value shareholders over subscribers in their creative decision-making. #Justsaying I only ever saw each episode once!” He had previously called the removal of the series “embarrassing” saying on X that he meets “lovely people on a daily basis who are fans” of Willow, and “who are the reason the @DisneyPlus Series was made.” Addressing his message to Disney, he said “what do I say to these…
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