Christmas was the terrain of a war between two streaming platforms. On December 25, Soul and Wonder Woman 1984 were released, on the one hand, one movie reached Disney + while the other landed on HBO Max. According to new reports, the new Pixar film would have beaten the Warner Bros. film.
According to Bloomberg, the Disney + app was downloaded about 2.3 million times between Friday and Sunday worldwide. This happened thanks to the premiere of Soul, the new Pixar movie. A figure is much higher than the 554 thousand new users that the HBO Max application also obtained, during that same three-day period, in which the launch of Wonder Woman 1984 could be seen.
A latent battle
For Disney, those numbers represent a 28 percent increase compared to the previous weekend. In total, HBO Max is estimated to have close to 12 million users. It is important to mention that the first platform is available in different countries while Warner streaming is only available in the United States, which explains the abysmal difference. However, both data speak of a significant number of people who now use their services.
Obviously, the number of users is only an indicator of several topics. It should also be remembered that, even in the face of the pandemic, its second wave and the threat of new variants, Wonder Woman 1984 impressed with US $ 85 million at the box office in its first week worldwide. In this way, it is expected to raise almost double what was estimated. This number stands up to varying opinions on the film, with some calling it boring and it came in at the worst DC movie rating on IMDb.
Faced with those numbers, Disney’s decision to have launched Soul only in streaming, in countries where it already has its platform in operation, yielded US $ 7.6 million since December 25 in China.