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More Opera house than Movie theater by the end of the 2030s in the USA ?

Even without COVID, IT 2 from IT drop would have been a dream scenario for this I imagine.

It is a bit low, that exactly what The Smurfs 2 made with the $13M in merchandise and maybe what it was based one, while the box office of both family animated movie were similar, Trolls was much more Domestic heavy and that usually translate to higher revenues, specially for a movie in the domestic Top 5 in sales versus one out of the top 50. It was maybe a bit above that (specially once merchandise/sountrack took into account) But that said, I am pretty sure The-numbers show gross sales of dvds revenues, not the studio share for them.

Peakcock would still have to make a deal I would imagine, a major Universal partner like that/residual calculation rules and so on would probably necessitate them to buy the streaming right internally to some reasonable market value: https://www.dentsu.com/business/japan/contents/entertainment.html https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?companies=co0169264 And it is an old ongoing franchise (i.e. that has streaming deal already in place), https://deadline.com/2020/04/trolls-world-tour-vod-box-office-movie-profits-universal-coronavirus-1202903913/: Hulu streaming window deal that is valued around $25M.

A lot (more and more) is about living the hype at the same time as everyone else (i.e. the industry getting more and more frontloaded) and why theater chain fear this so much. The success of the low budget horror movie in the last 5 year's seem to indicate than the theatrical experience, going out, date, is still even if less than before part of it, so I would say both.

I am ambivalent here because like it was for cable, the people that make movies tend to own (and way more now) the VOD platform, and they could be interested to do what is better for their platform than for the movie if it is not 100% aligned. The first year that it would be put in place, that would just be a net positive for us the consumer, but if it has a negative impact mid-long term on the feature film production, fan of those could loose, we arguably need to protect ourself a little bit of watching stuff in the most conveniant ways and without any shaming involved, numbers show it will end up being cheap cats video and porn.

Explicitly say including to remove any possible confusion (because of the very popular term Home Entertainment that exclude it). They are has limited has theater want them to be, they could do one on 5000 screens if they wanted. There is no, not in theater window put in place (except for Disney that tend to control their vault closely) Theater need protection from Home media completely (and not much the other way around for sure), that why home media does not need a window when the movie cannot play in theater (and that do not tend to exist).

Not sure to follow, how is home media release including tv-cable have an exclusive windows, Titanic play in theater all the time as well (and not only during a mediatised WW 3d re-release or anniversary release): https://www.amctheatres.com/movies/titanic-20th-anniversary-55690 But in general, like most popular movies do, I am not sure any post theatrical windows are set up in a way that make it impossible for theater to play them (except for Disney title), for example in 2020: https://www.marcustheatres.com/movies/titanic When fandango did let you see movie ticket sales on their platform, from what I remember Titanic/lord of the rings/Dark Knight/Die Hard/Gone With the Wind were very often playing somewhere in America, normally if you are in a big city you will have many occasion to see something like Parasite in theater in your lifetime (biggest city tend to have 75-100 different movie playing in any given day, most but not all are new release many are older one).

I am pretty sure Titanic played on free TV and cable in most market.

Now I am curious what do you think this was about ? If you didn't thought it was about a movie studio alleging they would stop to respect the theatrical window in the future ? That we have little idea what they would look like.

Will it stay at that level if their movies are available from home the same day that in theater ? The premise that removing the windows would have 0 effect on the box office make it trivial that theater boycott is ridiculous, but that a circular argument. AMC make more than 45% of that 325-400M in revenue once you consider food&breverage&arcades game playing those patron behind that box office consumed on location like you said.

That is quite the speculation, how much theater can make in profit from movies that are already released on home video versus figth against it. AMC will continue only if everyone follow them (like they always did and will probably do), people are right to expect AMC not to do it if they are alone in this, I doubt they would be: https://celluloidjunkie.com/wire/trolls-world-tour-vod-revenues-do-not-indicate-a-shift-in-consumer-movie-viewing-preferences/ I expect they will at least all of them treatem studio's of following AMC.

Depend where you live, but if you are Americans, that something that was unlike sport / music ticket quite stable: A 2D regular ticket is cheaper now than in the early 70s in America. They were cheaper in the 90s to early 2000s but not by that much

Competitor, that assuming any chain will accept this ? AMC didn't play any Netflix movie before, their competitor (the large chain) didn't made any revenues from them because they also in solidarity has a group didn't play them. Single theater chain have little power and could not do it, historically they gang up together and achieve to keep the window because they form an united group about it.

Yes the cable box, the amazon prime, the distributor take a cut, EST historically have been by far the highest margin for the studio and that high price rental at similar price point is probably quite similar. In some country you paid for the right to have the title in your library and a % by sales, % that changed by the strenght of the title and the numbers of days it was available on VOD.

I am not sure how world TV/streaming contract will look like for a direct VOD release, but on what is this based ? It is obviously and extraordinary situation with parents desperate to occupy kids inside the homes, but if this reach $100M WW in vod revenues alone during is lifetime and make just $90M from WW TV at a $90M budget, why would they be no real profit possible ? It depend how much a direct on video release in an empty media environment did cost obviously.

Until we the (p.g.a) tag next to the names and that there was no best picture nomination vetting process, I would imagine that there is not much strong rules going on. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1477834/fullcredits, executive producer on Aquaman: Produced by Khadija Alami ... line producer: Morocco plate unit Jon Berg ... executive producer Rob Cowan ... producer (produced by) Walter Hamada ... executive producer Geoff Johns ... executive producer Mark O'Neill ... associate producer: Newfoundland plate shot unit Peter Safran ... producer by (p.g.a.) Enzo Sisti ... line producer: Italy plate unit Deborah Snyder ... executive producer Zack Snyder ... executive producer

It is hard to know if The Game of Thrones: Game of Thrones: The Complete Collector's Set would not have shown up in those best sellers list (like it did for season 1 through 7) with a better received finals (or the season 1-2 sales like it did before the final season's). But yes this is of course impressive (specially for cable):

US revenues ($276M) being significantly higher than Get Out ($249 M) despite I would imagine being relatively less popular after their theatrical run, either goes into the direction that my feeling they were going quite low on their estimate last year were justified or that revenues for movies started to really get bigger in 2019 then 2018.

A bit like lot of people in high position often didn't wrote letters themselves before, when you have assistants with cell phone and e-mails (and your wife is a producers on your movies), it open a world of possibility.

she ? What you on the final result on screen I imagine is quite different that what the work for an actor was (specially if you talk about a movie final edit and not the actual footage)

Been a while since I watched it, but would it not be: 3.6/3.6, not great, not terrible, instead ?

It is not a movie that was particularly popular among people that define mainstream-pop culture footprint, but still if we look at similar type of success: 148 2011 Fast Five $630,163,454 $210,031,325 $420,132,129 149 2007 Ratatouille $626,549,695 $206,445,654 $420,104,041 150 2008 Hancock $624,234,272 $227,946,274 $396,287,998 151 2018 Ant-Man and the Wasp $623,144,660 $216,648,740 $406,495,920 152 2004 The Passion of the Christ $622,341,120 $370,782,930 $251,558,190 153 2010 Iron Man 2 $621,156,389 $312,433,331 $308,723,058 154 2012 Life of Pi $620,912,003 $124,987,022 $495,924,981 155 1997 The Lost World: Jurassic Park $618,638,999 $229,086,679 $389,552,320 156 2008 Mamma Mia! $615,514,762 $144,130,063 $471,384,699 157 2017 Logan $615,461,394 $226,277,068 $389,184,326 158 2014 How to Train Your Dragon 2 $614,586,270 $177,002,924 $437,583,346 159 2005 War of the Worlds $606,836,535 $234,280,354 $372,556,181 160 2017 Transformers: The Last Knight $602,893,340 $130,168,683 $472,724,657 161 2008 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa $599,680,774 $180,174,880 $419,505,894 I think it is fair to say that it is above average, I doubt much of those movie will get more talk 15 year's after their release than Passion, will see if the sequel ever get released if it will refresh it.

Yes, but during an low news time, trying to predict trailers from picks is a nice game to play (no one think that they matter by themselve, they know it is the trailers that will be everything)

It is more not starting to put the Hunger Games/Divergent type of Sci-fi in there has I am not sure that the social thought experiment Sci-fi genre is relevant (or thought as Sci-fi by many people)