The Disney+ streaming platform announced Tuesday, December 10 that it would broadcast “exclusively” the next Oscars ceremony, a program previously broadcast by Canal+, and develop new French series and film projects.
“The next Oscars ceremony will be broadcast exclusively on Disney+. We will be live from the red carpet at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles on March 2 for this 97th ceremony,” announced Julia Tenret, director of acquisitions and programming for Disney+ during a press conference. “After Anatomy of a Fall, Oscar for best screenplay in 2024, will another French film take over? Response on March 2 live and exclusively on Disney+”, she added.
This announcement comes at a pivotal moment for the American entertainment giant. He announced at the beginning of November the end of his contract with Canal+: from January 1, new Disney, Marvel or Pixar films, which arrived on Canal+ six months after their theatrical release, will no longer be available there. Likewise, it will no longer be possible to access the Disney+ platform via Canal+, which until now integrated it into some of its offers, Disney counting on its catalog to recover subscribers lost in the operation.
According to several media, Disney is in negotiations with the cinema industry to increase its contribution to French cinematographic creation in exchange for a more favorable position in the media chronology. Currently, Disney+ can release films just 17 months after their theatrical release. Asked by AFP, Disney did not comment on this point.
The platform, which claims 3rd place in France, intends to strengthen its presence with programs produced in France, notably via a comedy series carried by Jean-Pascal Zadi and set in prison. Titled Monitor and Punish, the new tricolor production of Disney+ will follow “with humor the only people who have voluntarily decided to spend their entire lives behind bars: the guards”announced Tuesday Kévin Deysson, director of Disney+ original productions.
Played by Jean-Pascal Zadi (Simply black), this fiction in eight 30-minute episodes is presented as an office comedy “in the greatest tradition of American sitcoms”. The broadcast date is not known.
This series will be added to the French fiction previously announced by Disney and expected in 2025: Ghosts, comedy co-produced with TF1 with, among others, Camille Chamoux and Camille Combal in the cast, and The Missing from the station, thriller adapted from the affair of “disappeared from Perpignan”notably with Camille Razat (Emily in Paris) et Hugo Becker (To Fish).
On the animation side, Disney+ will distribute a new series taken from Cat’s Eyemanga already brought up to date in live action this fall by TF1. It will also welcome in its catalog the very popular Japanese series One Piece to expand its offer of anime, a genre very popular with young people.
