Disney Plus Announces Summer Movie Nights Schedule, Includes Marvel, Star Wars And More

Though theaters are opening, there's not a whole lot of new movies coming out over the next few months. That means most folks will continue to rely on their streaming subscriptions to offer up some fresh films to watch this summer. And Disney Plus is ready to give the people what they want. The Mouse House's service has unveiled its "Summer Movie Nights" schedule, which will see a major blockbuster or old favorite flick go up on D+ every Friday in the coming months.

Christian Bone

Published: Jun 29, 2020 07:04 pm

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Though theaters are opening, there’s not a whole lot of new movies coming out over the next few months. That means most folks will continue to rely on their streaming subscriptions to offer up some fresh films to watch this summer. And Disney Plus is ready to give the people what they want.

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The Mouse House’s service has unveiled its “Summer Movie Nights” schedule today, which will see a major blockbuster or old favorite go up on D+ every Friday in the coming months. The impressive line-up includes Marvel Studios movies, Pixar, Star Wars, musicals and even a bunch of X-Men films. The season will kick off this Friday with the much-anticipated release of Hamilton, and you can read on for the full schedule:

Friday, July 3rd – Hamilton

Friday, July 3rd – The Mighty Ducks

Friday, July 10th – X-Men; Days of Future Past

Friday, July 10th – Solo: A Star Wars Story

Friday, July 17th – X-Men: Apocalypse

Friday, July 24th – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Friday, July 31st – Incredibles 2

Friday, August 7th – X-Men

Friday, August 7th – The Peanuts Movie

Friday, August 14th – Ant-Man and the Wasp

Friday, August 14th – The Greatest Showman

Friday, August 21st – Beauty and the Beast (2017)

Friday, August 28th – Fantastic Four (2005)

Friday, August 28th – Alice Through The Looking Glass

Friday, September 4th – The Wolverine

As you can see, this Friday will also see the arrival of the original Mighty Ducks movie on D+, ahead of the TV series continuation of the franchise that’s in the works. Solo: A Star Wars Story joins the ranks of SW films on the service the week after, while the fifth and – to date – final Pirates film with Johnny Depp follows the Friday after that. There are also a quartet of Fox’s X-flicks coming up over the next two and a bit months, not to mention the first Fantastic Four movie.

At the end of July, Incredibles 2 blasts onto the site, with The Peanuts Movie hot on its heels the week after. And don’t miss Ant-Man and the Wasp, Hugh Jackman’s The Greatest Showman and the live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast in mid-August. Another one for Depp fans, Alice Through the Looking Glass, then arrives at the end of August.

Let us know which of these movies you’ll be checking out as Disney Plus unleashes its Summer Movie Nights schedule over the next few months in the comments section down below.

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Christian Bone

Christian Bone is a Staff Writer/Editor at We Got This Covered and has been cluttering up the internet with his thoughts on movies and TV for over a decade, ever since graduating with a Creative Writing degree from the University of Winchester. As Marvel Beat Leader, he can usually be found writing about the MCU and yet, if you asked him, he'd probably say his favorite superhero film is 'The Incredibles.'