Once again, Disney Plus has proved to be a good news engine for Disney. The new streaming service has signed up 50 million subscribers, Disney said on Wednesday, a few weeks after it launched in most of Western Europe. In less than six months, Disney has signed up a third of the total achieved by Netflix after a decade. Disney’s stock, which has been hammered during the pandemic, shot up nearly...
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