'Disenchanted' Producer Explains Why He Was Still 'Excited' For The Movie To Go Straight to Disney+

Amy Adams reunites with Patrick Dempsey at the premiere of their new movie, Disenchanted, held at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on Wednesday night (November 16).

The two actors were joined by co-stars Maya Rudolph, Idina Menzel, James Marsden, Yvette Nicole Brown, Jayma Mays, Oscar Nunez, and Kolton Stewart at the event, as well as director Adam Shankman and composer Alan Menken.

Disenchanted is set to debut on Friday, November 18 on Disney+ – which is something that didn’t scare off producer Barry Josephson.

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Speaking with Deadline, Barry shared that bringing the movie straight to streaming wasn’t an issue.

“This was a situational thing,” he says. “This movie was developed as a box office movie. My development toward getting a greenlight, happened right in the midst of Covid, and as our whole world was changing and where streaming became more important.”

He went on, “When I got the call, ‘What do you think of this being a streaming film?’, for me, I was excited. I also understood there are all these streaming services, and for Disney to be the preeminent streaming family service, why not make things exclusively streaming? Two and two made four to me.”

“They did say to me, ‘you’re going to make this movie as if you’ve done it as a feature film for the box office.’ That excited me. It didn’t mean we were shrinking our idea down,” he continued. “The service is spending a considerable amount of money for their subscribers.”

Barry concluded, “It’s a period of adjustment that people need to get use to: There will be these things exclusively for streaming.”

FYI: Idina wore Khoon Hooi. Amy wore Cartier jewelry.

Check out 70+ pictures from the Disenchanted premiere in LA…