New Movies and Shows on Disney+ and Hulu in February

Disney+ now includes content in its monthly email that’s also available on Hulu. It feels like they should just combine the two services and pick a single name – maybe Hisney+ or Dulu? I’m not sure what the best name would be, but having two separate brands for essentially the same content seems unnecessary.

And yes, this package does include everything from ESPN+, but honestly, if you’re here on ScreenCrush, you probably avoid sports like the plague! I’m focusing on the movies and shows you care about, so I’m skipping all the sports stuff.

The biggest news this February is a new take on The Muppet Show, with Seth Rogen as an executive producer. It’s starting as a single special episode, but hints suggest it could be brought back as a full series if it’s popular.

Hulu is currently streaming the new romantic comedy Splitsville and the horror film Clown in a Cornfield. Plus, later this month, fans can enjoy new episodes of the classic sitcom Scrubs—the first in over 16 years!

Here’s everything coming to Disnulu (?) in February 2026.

Monday, February 2
• Hulu: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024)

Here’s what’s new on Disney+ and Hulu for February 4th:

Disney+ & Hulu: Season 17 of Ancient Aliens is available.
Disney+: The first episode of the new The Muppet Show is now streaming.
Disney+: You can also start watching the premiere of We Call It Imagineering*.

Thursday, February 5
• Hulu: Splitsville (2025)

Saturday, February 7
• Disney+ and Hulu: Engineering Europe – Premiere

Monday, February 9
• Hulu: The Good Place (Complete Series) (NBC)

On Tuesday, February 10th, new content arrives on Disney+ and Hulu. Season 2 of the Hulu Original series The Artful Dodger will be available to stream in its entirety, and the 2024 film Clown in a Cornfield will also be added to Hulu.

I’m excited for what’s coming up this Wednesday, February 11th! I’m definitely planning to check out the new Hulu Original, The Scream Murder: A True Teen Horror Story when it premieres. And good news for fans of Hey A.J. – new episodes are dropping on Disney+ too!

Here’s what’s new on Disney+ and Hulu for Friday, February 13th: the premiere of Incas: The Rise and Fall (available on both platforms), Season 1 of Arranged on Disney+, and the premiere of Cartoonified! with Phineas and Ferb shorts, also on Disney+.

Saturday, February 14
• Disney+: Chibi Tiny Tales: Shorts (Season 7) – Premiere

Monday, February 16
• Hulu: Beyblade X (Season 2B) (Disney XD)

Here’s what’s new on streaming for Tuesday, February 17th: All seasons of Keeping Up with the Kardashians are now available on Hulu, along with the new film Urchin (2025). Season 2 of RoboGobo premieres today on Disney+.

On Wednesday, February 18th, Disney+ will release several new titles, including the premiere of Armorsaurs, as well as new seasons and episodes of Dead Girl Summer, History’s Greatest Mysteries (Season 6), Storage Wars (Season 16), and the movies A Roommate to Die For, A Sorority Mom’s Guide to Rush, and Trapped in Her Dorm Room.

On Thursday, February 19th, Hulu will release a new original series called Girl on the Run: The Hunt For America’s Most Wanted Woman.

Friday, February 20
• Hulu: Watching You (Season 1) (ITV Studios)

Monday, February 23
• Hulu: Paradise (Season 2) (Hulu Original) – Three-Episode Premiere

On Thursday, February 26th, new content will be available on Disney+ and Hulu. Premiering is Inside the CIA: Secrets and Spies, as well as the show Scrubs (originally from ABC). Season 10 of To Catch a Smuggler will also debut on both platforms.

Here’s what’s new on streaming for Friday, February 27th:

Disney+ & Hulu: Season 1 of Ancient Autopsy: Mysteries of the Dead is available.
Hulu: Watch Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025).
Disney+: Miraculous World: Tokyo Stellar Force is now streaming.
Disney+: You can now watch Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess on Disney+ for the first time.

Here’s what’s new on streaming for Saturday, February 28th: Season 4 of Celebrity Jeopardy! is available on Hulu (originally aired on ABC), and the premiere of Danger Decoded is now streaming on both Disney+ and Hulu.

Lost Disney Animated Movies That Were Never Made

Who Discovered Roger Rabbit

After the huge success of the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, plans began for a sequel called Roger Rabbit: The Toon Platoon. It would have shown Roger Rabbit’s early life, including his time serving in the army during World War II. However, after directing Schindler’s List, Steven Spielberg stepped away from the project. Years later, in 1997, the idea was revisited as Who Discovered Roger Rabbit, with a new story focusing on Roger becoming a star in Hollywood and on Broadway. Despite test footage created in the late 1990s and early 2000s – which combined classic animation with live-action and computer-generated imagery – Disney ultimately decided not to move forward with the film.

Untitled Nightmare Before Christmas Sequel

In the early 2000s, Disney explored the possibility of making a computer-animated sequel to the 1993 stop-motion classic, The Nightmare Before Christmas. However, the film’s creator, Tim Burton, persuaded them to abandon the idea, wanting to preserve the original movie’s unique quality. Instead, a direct continuation of the story was released in 2004 as the Capcom video game, The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie’s Revenge. More recently, director Henry Selick suggested making a prequel, but as of 2024, both he and Tim Burton have stated they don’t plan to create any further films in the series.

Swan Lake

In the early 1990s, Disney planned to create an animated movie based on the famous ballet Swan Lake, perfectly fitting their classic princess movie style. However, they cancelled the project when they discovered that Richard Rich, a former Disney animator who had started his own studio, was already making a similar film called The Swan Princess. Released in 1994 by New Line Cinema, The Swan Princess wasn’t successful in theaters, but it later gained a dedicated fan base through home video.

Don Quixote

For decades, Disney has repeatedly tried to create an animated movie based on the famous Spanish story, Don Quixote. The first attempt was in the 1940s, but it was canceled due to money problems and because Pinocchio and Fantasia hadn’t performed well in theaters. Disney also shifted its focus to making shorter films and movies to support the war effort. They tried again in the 1950s with a different animation style, but that version didn’t work out either. More recently, in the early 2000s, Disney canceled another Don Quixote adaptation, deciding it was too mature for a family audience.

A Princess of Mars

In the early 1990s, Disney began developing an animated science fiction movie called A Princess of Mars, inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs’ classic novel. Disney’s then-CEO, Jeffrey Katzenberg, was very enthusiastic about the project and offered it to renowned directors Rob Clements and John Musker, but they turned it down. Almost twenty years later, Disney released a live-action version called John Carter in 2012, but the film wasn’t successful in theaters.

Kingdom of the Sun

Before the fun, buddy-comedy The Emperor’s New Groove came out in 2000, Disney had been working on a very different movie called Kingdom of the Sun. This earlier version was intended to be a darker, more musical story about a prince and a witch named Yzma who wanted to cover up the sun. Owen Wilson was originally cast as the voice of Pacha, and Sting wrote music for the film. However, after early test screenings didn’t go well, the filmmakers had to completely rework the project. They dropped the traditional musical elements, but luckily, Eartha Kitt’s song “Snuff Out the Light” – originally written for the film – still made it onto the official soundtrack, even though it wasn’t included in the final movie.

Tinker Bell and the Ring of Belief

Before Disney released the Tinker Bell film in 2008, another movie called Tinker Bell and the Ring of Belief was being made. Brittany Murphy, who sadly passed away, was going to be the voice of Tinker Bell. Planned for release in 2007, this film would have told the story of how Tinker Bell first met Peter Pan. Disney released some early looks and trailers for the movie in its promotions during the mid-2000s. However, disagreements about the film’s direction, money problems, and Disney’s switch from traditional 2D animation to 3D animation led to the movie being completely reworked.

Where the Wild Things Are

Long before the live-action Where the Wild Things Are movie came out in 2009, Disney considered making an animated version of Maurice Sendak’s popular children’s book. Back in 1983, animators Glen Keane and John Lasseter created a short test film showing Max’s playful antics in his bedroom. This short combined classic hand-drawn animation with early 3D techniques, but Disney ultimately decided not to pursue a full-length movie because it would have been too expensive and technically challenging to develop further.

Gigantic

I was really excited when Disney first announced Gigantic back at D23 in 2015. It sounded amazing – a story about a boy in Spain who makes friends with a giant girl named Inma, and they discover this incredible world up in the clouds. It was going to be a fresh take on the “Jack and the Beanstalk” story, all done with beautiful CGI animation, and even the team behind Frozen was working on the music! Sadly, it kept getting delayed, and eventually, Disney canceled it in 2017. Ed Catmull, who was head of the animation studio at the time, said they had some creative disagreements. It’s a shame it never saw the light of day, but it’s kind of cool that they included a little hidden nod to it in Zootopia – a tiny Easter egg for those of us who remembered!

Babes in Toyland

In 1955, Walt Disney originally intended to create an animated movie based on the beloved Christmas story, Babes in Toyland. But the project faced setbacks and was later reimagined as a live-action film. Starring Annette Funicello, Disney’s Babes in Toyland premiered in 1961 and marked the company’s first full-length live-action musical.

Dufus

During the late 1980s, Disney considered making an animated movie based on J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, with a unique twist: talking and singing German shepherds. They even asked lyricist Howard Ashman to write songs for the film, which was tentatively titled Dufus. Unfortunately, Disney couldn’t secure the rights to the story from Salinger himself, so the project was ultimately abandoned.

Mistress Masham’s Repose

In the mid-1980s, Disney animator Joe Hale began working on a film called Mistress Mahasam’s Repose, inspired by T.H. White’s 1946 novel. The story would have centered on a young orphan who becomes friends with a group of Lilliputians – the tiny people famously featured in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. Although Roy E. Disney was enthusiastic about the project, then-CEO Michael Eisner didn’t approve, and the film was canceled. Now, you can still find early concept art and character designs by renowned Disney animator Andreas Deja online, offering a glimpse into what could have been.

King of the Elves

As a huge animation fan, I remember being really excited when Disney announced King of the Elves way back in 2008! It was going to be based on a Philip K. Dick story – can you believe it? – and the idea was fantastic: a human gets named king by a group of elves living in the Mississippi Delta after rescuing them from a troll. The team behind Brother Bear was set to direct, which made me even more hopeful. But things got complicated. The project was put on hold in 2009, then briefly revisited, before Disney ultimately shelved it a few years later because they couldn’t quite nail the story. It’s a shame, because it sounded really unique!

Newt

Back in 2008, Disney revealed Pixar was developing a movie called Newt. It was going to be about two endangered blue-footed newts—a male and a female—who started to connect with each other during a shared adventure, even though they didn’t initially like each other. The movie was planned for release around 2011 or 2012, and a little newt carving even appeared as a hidden detail in Pixar’s film Brave. Ultimately, though, the project was canceled because the story was too similar to the 2011 Blue Sky Studios film Rio.

My Peoples (AKA A Few Good Ghosts)

In the early 2000s, Disney developed an animated film about a pair of young lovers from rival families in the Appalachian Mountains. The story involved enchanted folk art dolls who offered assistance, and featured the voices of Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, and Hal Holbrook. Directed by Barry Cook, who co-directed Mulan, the film would have blended traditional animation with computer-generated imagery and included a bluegrass soundtrack. However, the project—known at different times as My Peoples and A Few Good Ghosts—was canceled in late 2003. Many believe Disney chose to focus on Chicken Little instead, as it was seen as more commercially viable. The folk doll characters did briefly appear in the 2007 film Meet the Robinsons.

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