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I really hope someday in the future all the financials behind that decision get leaked so mere mortals like myself can understand why they'd put a movie with a $200mil budget on a streaming service vs just shelving it for a year.
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Nov 19, 2020 01:03
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Movie theater industry will die Also they make money from theaters directly. I think
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Sirotan posted:I really hope someday in the future all the financials behind that decision get leaked so mere mortals like myself can understand why they'd put a movie with a $200mil budget on a streaming service vs just shelving it for a year. it's because AT&T sees HBO Max as (in the long term) a more reliable revenue driver than theaters. HBO Max has also been lagging behind their expectations for subscribers so with theaters closed for the time being there is a certain logic to foregoing theatrical revenue, even when it'd be a surefire ~$1 billion grosser under normal circumstances also, it's likely not viable for studios to keep delaying absolutely everything, because the backlog of releases is going to get unwieldy (especially as film production has ramped up again over the past few months)
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FoneBone posted:HBO Max has also been lagging behind their expectations for subscribers It's almost like not having an app on popular streaming devices is a huge deterrent for potential users.
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Nov 19, 2020 03:52
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They just made a deal with Amazon this week so it is now on Fire devices.
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FoneBone posted:also, it's likely not viable for studios to keep delaying absolutely everything, because the backlog of releases is going to get unwieldy (especially as film production has ramped up again over the past few months) stay tuned closely to Disney's investor day on Dec. 10 to see whether they blink on Black Widow, Raya, and more. I bet they will even if it's not announced there; a vaccine isn't going to be widely available in the US by early May
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Nov 19, 2020 05:13
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muscles like this! posted:They just made a deal with Amazon this week so it is now on Fire devices. I would also bet that they finally reach a deal with Roku in time for WW84
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Nov 19, 2020 05:25
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They stared into the abyss... and blinked.
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Nov 19, 2020 22:30
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Rumor has it that Godzilla vs Kong could go direct to streaming with Netflix offering $200 million and WarnerMedia thinking about putting it on HBO Max. The movie is currently scheduled for a May release and if it passes on a theatrical run that could be seen as a bellwether for next year's slate.
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Nov 26, 2020 05:11
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muscles like this! posted:Rumor has it that Godzilla vs Kong could go direct to streaming with Netflix offering $200 million and WarnerMedia thinking about putting it on HBO Max. The movie is currently scheduled for a May release and if it passes on a theatrical run that could be seen as a bellwether for next year's slate. A vaccine is highly unlikely to be widely available by May, might as well start ripping the denial Band-Aid off
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Nov 27, 2020 04:30
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GrandpaPants posted:It's almost like not having an app on popular streaming devices is a huge deterrent for potential users. This is where I grumble about the DC Universe app not being available on the PS4 for some reason. (Yes I know DCU is dead now.)
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Nov 27, 2020 07:22
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They did get it out on the ps4. Still dead though.
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Nov 27, 2020 13:44
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Every 2021 WB release, including Dune and Matrix 4, will debut simultaneously on HBO Max and in theaters. https://www.indiewire.com/2020/12/dune-matrix-all-warner-bros-films-hbo-max-1234602168/
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Dec 3, 2020 19:35
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Pirate Jet posted:Every 2021 WB release, including Dune and Matrix 4, will debut simultaneously on HBO Max and in theaters. https://www.indiewire.com/2020/12/dune-matrix-all-warner-bros-films-hbo-max-1234602168/ https://twitter.com/erikdavis/status/1334565772769693696?s=10 Insanity
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Dec 3, 2020 19:36
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GOOD. This is the dream.
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Dec 3, 2020 19:37
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HBO Max is now a must-buy and I think movie theaters are now loving dead. This is a gutshot and all that's left is the bleeding out. Holy poo poo.
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Dec 3, 2020 19:39
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZzR8FB8EEE
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Dec 3, 2020 19:41
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Yo, WB if you're gonna do that how about giving us Dune earlier than next December?
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It begins.
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loving finally.
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Dec 3, 2020 20:10
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Disney did this for Hamilton in June.
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Pirate Jet posted:Every 2021 WB release, including Dune and Matrix 4, will debut simultaneously on HBO Max and in theaters. https://www.indiewire.com/2020/12/dune-matrix-all-warner-bros-films-hbo-max-1234602168/ I'm glad that studios are starting to end their months and months of self-delusion. Moviegoing patterns in the US aren't going to be anything close to pre-COVID normal anytime soon even with promising vaccine results, and it's just not tenable to keep delaying entire studio slates by months and months; the backlog of delayed films is already massive, and absent a willingness to embrace VOD/streaming, it's only going to keep growing as film production has largely resumed. Disney's investor day a week from today is going to be very interesting in this regard. the reporting I've seen from the Hollywood trades suggests that they're considering releasing Cruella and some of their 2021 slate on Disney+, but that they're still deluding themselves with respect to Raya, Black Widow, etc. we'll see if that's the case or if they're ready to embrace reality
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Barry Convex posted:Disney's investor day a week from today is going to be very interesting in this regard. the reporting I've seen from the Hollywood trades suggests that they're considering releasing Cruella and some of their 2021 slate on Disney+, but that they're still deluding themselves with respect to Raya, Black Widow, etc. we'll see if that's the case or if they're ready to embrace reality
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Barry Convex posted:I'm glad that studios are starting to end their months and months of self-delusion. Moviegoing patterns in the US aren't going to be anything close to pre-COVID normal anytime soon even with promising vaccine results, and it's just not tenable to keep delaying entire studio slates by months and months; the backlog of delayed films is already massive, and absent a willingness to embrace VOD/streaming, it's only going to keep growing as film production has largely resumed.
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CapnAndy posted:It really is; everyone's gonna be pressing them to match WB and they've seriously got to get Black Widow and Eternals out somehow already; for everything else, delaying a movie just delays that movie, but they have an entire linear storytelling franchise here and the knock-on effects are growing exponentially. it's particularly acute for the MCU because the Disney+ series mean it's not just the films that are interconnected anymore; further delaying the films could also force further delays in the Disney+ shows, which are obviously hugely important to the future of the platform as a whole (rumor has it that Falcon & Winter Soldier was delayed out of 2020 not just due to COVID-related production issues, but also due to plot elements from Black Widow that it follows up on)
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David D. Davidson posted:They did get it out on the ps4. When? Last I checked it just never happened.
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Dec 3, 2020 21:04
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This isn’t unexpected but it still loving sucks a shitload
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Dec 3, 2020 21:57
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A24 drop the Green Knight on Netflix or something, TIA.
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How long till Disney and the rest of them does the same? I'm betting Netflix will step in for the smaller studios that can't afford a streaming platform. All in all this will probably go a bit like how the digital distribution wars went down in gaming, with alot of delutional parties trying to set up their own platform before folding into steam once their own initaitives failed to take root. Netflix is basically the Steam of movies. They don't have a ton of IP's, especially legacy ones, to rely on and instead need to maintain marketshare as a strategy.
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Dec 3, 2020 23:43
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I'm glad theaters are dead.
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Freakazoid_ posted:I'm glad theaters are dead. I will never understand the people who unironically have this attitude.
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Detective No. 27 posted:I will never understand the people who unironically have this attitude. How i curse you friend havers, with your "goings out" and your "participation in society". now the couch moles shall reign supreme
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Dec 4, 2020 21:07
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I've been to theaters on major holidays because it was better than spending the day alone. it's lovely that people are forced to work it but 6 of one half dozen of the other
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Detective No. 27 posted:I will never understand the people who unironically have this attitude. Not everyone lives near a fancy boutique cinema.
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I cancelled my AMC A-List. With COVID still being a very real threat and the WB HBO Max deal being announced, I don't foresee myself going to a theater in the next several months, and I can't resubscribe for 6 months anyway. Maybe in 6 months, things will look different. Maybe not. Even if multiplexes die, I hope indie theaters survive somehow. There's a local indie single-screen theater that's been around for 100+ years that I really don't want to go away. I haven't been there since before the pandemic, but some of the coolest screenings I've seen have been there.
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SCheeseman posted:Their existence prevented me from watching movies when they are released at home, instead I had to spend a ridiculous amount of money to go to a local cineplex with garbage 2K digital projectors with worse visual quality than my own drat projector setup. Luckily, we all have extremely good projector setups.
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RBA Starblade posted:Luckily, we all have extremely good projector setups.
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