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Disney is giving another entertainment giant access to its war chest of pop culture icons. The House of Mouse has struck a multi-year deal with Webtoon Entertainment for roughly 100 titles to be released on the popular web comics app over the next few years, featuring characters and franchises under its umbrella, from Spider-Man to Star Wars, Beauty and the Beast, and much more. This will include a selection of existing comics and graphic novels reformatted to fit the app, alongside new stories that are currently being developed. Although specifics of the deal aren’t available, it’s a massive new agreement that will get the company’s characters in front of the eyes of over 80 million monthly active users on the English-language app.
Under the new agreement, which Daniel Fink, senior VP, head of digital innovation at Disney Consumer Products, called “one of the biggest we have ever done,” Disney will get its own dedicated section on the app packed with material from the entertainment giant’s worlds. That also means that 20th Century Studios properties, like Alien, are fair game. Leading off the new selection will be Amazing Spider-Man later this month, with the sci-fi horror franchise originated by Ridley Scott following alongside Marvel’s Avengers, Star Wars, and As Old as Time: A Twisted Tale, following Belle and the Beast. For now, the prices of the new Disney web comics are unknown, but they’ll operate under the same freemium model Webtoon is known for, where the first few pages are available for free before viewers have to purchase premium coins to keep reading.
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