Category
Film
Tv show
Documentary
Stand-up Comedy
Short Film
View All
Genres
Action
Adventure
Animation
Biography
Comedy
Crime
Documentary
Drama
Family
Fantasy
Film-Noir
Game-Show
History
Horror
Kids
Music
Musical
Mystery
News
Reality-TV
Political
Romance
Sci-Fi
Social
Sports
Talk-Show
Thriller
War
Western
View All
Language
Hindi
Telugu
Tamil
Malayalam
Kannada
Abkhazian
Afar
Afrikaans
Akan
Albanian
Amharic
Arabic
Aragonese
Armenian
Assamese
Avaric
Avestan
Aymara
Azerbaijani
Bambara
Bashkir
Basque
Belarusian
Bengali
Bhojpuri
Bislama
Bosnian
Breton
Bulgarian
Burmese
Cantonese
Catalan
Chamorro
Chechen
Chichewa; Nyanja
Chuvash
Cornish
Corsican
Cree
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Divehi
Dutch
Dzongkha
English
Esperanto
Estonian
Ewe
Faroese
Fijian
Finnish
French
Frisian
Fulah
Gaelic
Galician
Ganda
Georgian
German
Greek
Guarani
Gujarati
Haitian; Haitian Creole
Haryanvi
Hausa
Hebrew
Herero
Hiri Motu
Hungarian
Icelandic
Ido
Igbo
Indonesian
Interlingua
Interlingue
Inuktitut
Inupiaq
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Kalaallisut
Kanuri
Kashmiri
Kazakh
Khmer
Kikuyu
Kinyarwanda
Kirghiz
Komi
Kongo
Korean
Kuanyama
Kurdish
Lao
Latin
Latvian
Letzeburgesch
Limburgish
Lingala
Lithuanian
Luba-Katanga
Macedonian
Malagasy
Malay
Maltese
Mandarin
Manipuri
Manx
Maori
Marathi
Marshall
Moldavian
Mongolian
Nauru
Navajo
Ndebele
Ndebele
Ndonga
Nepali
Northern Sami
Norwegian
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Occitan
Ojibwa
Oriya
Oromo
Ossetian; Ossetic
Other
Pali
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Pushto
Quechua
Raeto-Romance
Romanian
Rundi
Russian
Samoan
Sango
Sanskrit
Sardinian
Serbian
Serbo-Croatian
Shona
Sindhi
Sinhalese
Slavic
Slovak
Slovenian
Somali
Sotho
Spanish
Sundanese
Swahili
Swati
Swedish
Tagalog
Tahitian
Tajik
Tatar
Thai
Tibetan
Tigrinya
Tonga
Tsonga
Tswana
Turkish
Turkmen
Twi
Uighur
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Venda
Vietnamese
Volapük
Walloon
Welsh
Wolof
Xhosa
Yi
Yiddish
Yoruba
Zhuang
Zulu
View All
Release year
2024
1900
Rating
Must Watch
Good
Passable
Poor
Skip
Yet to Review
View All
Platform
View All
Search

When And Where Will Marvel’s Eternals Come To OTT In India?

By Binged Bureau - Nov 21, 2021 @ 11:11 am

Marvel movies have always enjoyed massive viewership in India. The latest Marvel release ‘Eternals‘ has caught the imaginations of Indian audiences, more so coz it has a ‘Bollywood’ angle, not to say the presence of the most-loved character of Karun, played by our very own Harish Patel. Most people haven’t yet watched the superhero film as they are waiting for Eternals to come on OTT, so that they can watch it in the safety of their homes. And the question uppermost in their minds is “when and where will ‘Eternals’ come on streaming in India?”

So let’s get down to answering the all-important question. First off, let’s tackle the “Where” part of it, for the benefit of those who don’t know. Marvel Studios is a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. Therefore, on that account, Disney’s streaming arm, Disney Plus, is home to all Marvel content by default. Since Disney Plus is Disney Plus Hotstar in India, ‘Eternals’ will come on OTT on Disney Plus Hotstar.

Now about the “when” part of the question. In its second quarterly review event, Disney had categorically stated that the company will let every future Marvel movie post Black Widow enjoy a minimum theatrical window of 45 days before they think of releasing it on Disney Plus. The crucial word is ‘minimum’. This means that Marvel movies will not come to Disney Plus before 45 days, but the duration could be longer, depending on various factors. If Marvel and Disney feel that if a movie has more juice to be extracted at the box movie, it can let the movie play for a longer duration at the box office.

By the above criteria, ‘Eternals’ released in theatres worldwide on 5th November. 45 days from the release date comes up to 20th December. So Eternals will only arrive on Disney Plus and Disney Plus Hotstar after 20th December. Now, coming to the possibility of ‘Eternals’ releasing on Disney Plus in December itself, there are a few factors to be considered.

‘Hawkeye’ is due to premiere on Disney Plus on 24th November. The final episode of the Disney Plus and Marvel’s series will hit the streamer on December 22, a few days before Christmas. Next, Disney has its highly-anticipated animated film ‘Encanto’ premiering on Disney Plus and Disney Plus Hotstar on 24th December. It is quite obvious that Disney will want to save maximum eyeballs on Disney Plus for the aforementioned two big ticket spectacles. This makes the ‘Eternals’ release on Disney Plus as a Christmas offering a bleak prospect.

However, with the insanely hyped ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ scheduled to hit theatres on December 17th, it doesn’t make sense to keep ‘Eternals’ in theatres for much longer beyond its 45 days.

All of the above points to one thing – ‘Eternals’ will certainly not make its way to streaming on Disney Plus and Disney Plus Hotstar on Christmas. But there’s a fair chance that Disney and Marvel might unleash it on OTT as a New Year’s weekend release. Interestingly, the company has no other release in the offing for the first few months of the new year, that is 2022. The earliest Marvel & Disney Plus release in the new year is ‘Ms Marvel’, which will not hit the platform before Summer 2022, most likely July 2022. That’s a really long gap to fill.

It’s more likely that Disney and Marvel might wait it out to release Eternals on Disney Plus in January or February 2022, if only to fill in the gaping time span between successive Marvel content.

All of this is just a bit of informed calculation on our part. One never knows what’s going on in the minds of Marvel and Disney strategists. But as per our analysis, ‘Eternals’ will only come to OTT in India in January or February 2022, and not before that.

Stay tuned to Binged.com for further news on Eternals’ OTT release.

We’re hiring!

We are hiring two full-time junior to mid-level writers with the option to work remotely. You need to work a 5-hour shift and be available to write. Interested candidates should email their sample articles to [email protected]. Applications without a sample article will not be considered.