This is right, but the movie studios are setting a dangerous example for consumers. Without theaters, either the films go down in production value or the streaming costs go way up.

Streaming it and inviting people over to watch it with you

Smoking big kush at the crib

FINALLY

I think it’s a damn if you do damn if you don’t situation. It’s just hard right now with the lack of options, as a consumer it sucks seeing anticipated movies keep getting pushed back. If they treat this as a one year event and then once the world is back to normal shift things back to usual then I think we should be good.

This is a massive L not just for theaters but for cinema

This just made it much more harder to get the next Mad Max Fury Road or the next Dune. Studios aren’t going to want to put a 150 mil+ budgets into risks like those because streaming numbers can’t match box office revenue.

Going to be sad af when we just see a bunch of capeshit and fast and furious / godzilla vs some cgi crap every year along with like 5000 movies a year about how some minority group is brave

I agree this might be bad news for big blockbuster flicks if cinema does get demolished. But in your last sentence you failed to mention we will still get films like Parasite, Uncut Gems, The Lighthouse, etc. All those were the best films from 2019 that didn’t require a crazy budget and wasn’t a typical “minority group” movie. Happy medium.

And all of them will stream with poverty video and audio quality

whoever said theatres were on their way to being more of a concert/broadway type of thing might've been right

Its ultimately up to theaters to evolve with the times. Lots of other industries have been challenged like this before. Theaters have had the privilege of largely not having to innovate their model for well over half a century if not more. This was inevitable

People are social and still want to go out to see big spectacle movies, and studios still need theaters because thats the only way to make huge profits and justify a big budget film and salaries. This deal is a loss on each film on their slate its not desirable for anything more than increased subs. Only so much you can do when you have a slate, people aren't going to theaters, and they've been shut down for 9 months and counting in the nation's biggest markets (NYC and LA).

You can't make that much off of a big budget film on a streamer unless you use the Disney+ Mulan model, which still had losses. We aren't all of a sudden going to shift backwards. These companies want as much money as possible and when things are normal theaters would still be the method to making billions

conflicted cus i dont kno if i wanna be in a theater next year but also not gonna pay for yet another streaming service, goddamn covid i just wanna see Dune

Watching Dune and Godzilla vs Kong on my iPhone

Life doesn’t get any better than this

You know, I’m just happy for art at this moment. Corporate decisions have never once negatively affected the creation, awareness or accessibility of art. If corporations know one thing, it’s art and showing it some f***ing respect. So a decision this large can only mean good things. For art, obviously.

Looking forward to the future! I ❤️ Capitalism

Studios should do pop up movies or drive ins instead of normal theaters and make it a whole ass experience. Like for a week or whatever you get a chance to see the movie on a big screen with added entertainment and design

wow

Yes yes yes!!!!!!!!!perfectly put

fury road wasn't a risk it's part of a movie franchise

Man that would be f***ing madness.

Tickets would be sold out for weeks for a big release if there’s limited theaters.

But I feel you.

What he’s saying is it cost around 150 million dollars to make Fury Road. Without cinemas it’s going to be hard for studios to shell out that much money for big blockbusters if all they’re gonna see is streaming money

Not if it’s OLED

Also, this avoids people getting spoiled on social media if they didn’t go see it at a midnight release or first weekend.

I misread this and thought they were releasing all their 2021 movies on HBO Max at once lol

Damn, if theaters die or change drastically soon as more studios do the same, it feels good to have grown up in a time period where we experienced the other side

A franchise that doesn’t normally get budgets like that especially since it’s R rated

Confirmed to be streamed at 4K UHD with Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos, HDR10, and HDR10+