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Also agreed.Tenet,no matter how good or how popular it was going to be,was never going to save cinemas all by itself.Momentum was the key.All the other major studios should have worked together and released their movies in succession and slowly but surely got people going to theaters again.
Bond being pushed again to next year is the fatal bullet that will kill many cinema chains that will now not survive and consequently when NTTD is released theatrically it will not make as much money as it could have.
And before anyone says that it would be '' irresponsible '' to release it now,cinemas are as SAFE as it possibly is to be outside the home during this pandemic and people want to go.They could have always moved to PVOD during a theatrical release during a second lockdown ( Just like films like The Invisible Man did last march ).Yes,they would not make as much money but at least the movie would be out there and keeping the theater industry alive.
A double dose of Gal Gadot is just what i need to get me through holidays!
The reality is that while No Time To Die wouldnt save cinemas by itself but if it would make good enough money then it would inspire other studios to release their movies and that was always how it was suppose to go. Popculture is driven by trends and trends are not started with popular, reasonable decisions. It's always surrounded with risks, uncertainty and failed attempts. There has been many examples of that in the history- female written kids books werent suppose to sell that well untill JK Rowling absolutely destroyed that notion, movies in a shared universe, all linking to each other werent suppose to work untill Marvel came around. Now everyone is saying that releasing movies during a pandemic is not going to work untill there will be a movie that will be get released and will significantly overperform the expectations and then everyone will be racing to release their movie as quickly as possible, that's how it works.
That's true - the plane may crash.
Or even assuming people can actually afford to go to the movies, as if we're still in pre-pandemic times when unemployment wasn't going up.
There's a lot of factors many here are not considering. So much wishful thinking. Apparently the studios aren't as knowledgeable about these things as a bunch of movie nerds on an internet message board.
Every one of you claimed TENET would bring back audiences. It didn't. Now you're all saying we need to put out MORE movies to draw in audiences. How certain are you? This is a lot of money you're willing to gamble.
You're speaking about the USA.
Here in Germany "Tenet" already made more than "Dunkirk" and is on its way to surpass "Interstellar".
The main problem is, that some people think, that a theatre visit is risky, when in fact the risk is far lower than anywhere else in public.
I have been to the movie theatre a hundred times since cinemas re-opened in Germany in May.
You book tickets online, you have to give your contact details, you have to keep 1.5 metres at all times, you have to wear a mask until you reach your seat (can take it off during the screening).
IF someone from the audience from those 100 cinema visits would have tested positiv afterwards, the Health Department would have called me and I would have been tested aswell. I believe that's how it works in every country, right?
Cinemas have modern air condition (exchange of the air every couple of minutes), almost no talking during the show, and at least 1.5 metres distancing at all times.
And as I explained before there has not been one (!) screening, that turned out to be spreader event afterwards - as we all would have read about it in the papers.
I write this again and again as I want to take the fear of those who believe, that it's extremly risky to attend a theatre.
So even if someone who is unknowingly infected with Covid sits two rows behind you, the chances, that you get infected are very, very low - almost non-existent.
A rather important market.
Yes, but even there the risk of getting infected at the cinema is as low as elsewhere in the world.
I think theatres have to do something to make sure public enter there without fear. At the moment i really don't know why people aren't going into theatre but going everywhere else? it's the safest place there is, compare to others.
That doesn't matter. People here can bring up the fact that going to the cinema is safer that grocery shopping, that doesn't change the fact that too few in the USA are going at all.
As nice as that all is, the truth is that it doesn't really matter how safe theatres are.
Yes, but there (or rather, HERE) to risk of finding somebody being reasonable about the whole topic is far LOWER than most other places in the world.
Minding the rules.
At any rate -- many people regard theaters with less certainty of their safety than do you. They only just re-opened in other places beyond your home. They're enclosed. So, even if these folks are wrong, that's how many people see it and that affects attendance and Box Office receipts. The Theater operators' association(s) have announced their safety practices and, apparently, they're not enough to win people over very much. Furthermore, with theaters promising to allow only some amount less than 100% to attend, that also reduces box office receipts, so, from the viewpoint of people with a financial interest in a film's receipts, it is not encouraging, even were everyone to find it as safe as do you.
No, I don't work at a theatre. I'm just a movie fan.
Here in Hamburg some theatres had special prices when re-opening, like €4,99 per movie.
I've seen lots of classics:
- Harry Potter 1-8
- Phantastic Beasts 1-2
- Lord of the Rings 1-3
- Hobbit 1-3
- Back To The Future 1-3
- 2001
- A Clockwork Orange
- Barry Lyndon
- The Shining
- Eyes Wide Shut
- Inception
- Casablanca
- Bullitt
- Dirty Harry
- American Graffiti
- Sugarland Express
- Jaws
- Alien
- Apocalypse Now
- The Empire Strikes Back
- E.T.
- Scarface
- Ghostbusters
- Do The Right Thing
- Good Fellas
- Night On Earth
- Terminator 2
- Jurassic Park
- Inglorious Basterds
- Mad Max
- Mad Max: Fury Road
When Ennio Morricone died, some cinemas showed the movies he did the music to.
I saw
- Once Upon A Time In The West
- Cinema Paradiso
New US movies:
- Irresitible
- The King of Staten Island
- Unhinged
- The Climb
- Tenet
- Bill & Ted Face The Music
- On The Rocks
- Nomadland
And we recently had the Hamburg Film Festival with lots of new releases. I got to see some movies there aswell like the wonderful "Spring Blossom" from 19-year-old french director Suzanne Lindon.
And many more movies I will not list, because it may bore you to read german and other european movie titles.
I can tell you: it's fun to see all those movies on the big screen again or for the first time.
At two screenings I was all my myself, at some screenings around 10 to 20 people attended. The record attendance must have been with about 300 people at one screening. But that was a screen with more than 1000 seats.
I went to as many as atleast 20 different cinemas, and not once felt unsafe.
Sometimes I went on my own, sometimes with friends.
They’re using Bond as a scapegoat. They never would have held out until Nov 12th, they had planned on shutting down for a while now. Closing a huge chain like that across the UK and US really isn’t an overnight thought like their press department are making it out to be.
I imagine it's more the case of they had scenarios in place for shutting down in the event of further lockdowns, and the postponement of NTTD triggered the scenario because without Bond, what point is there staying open? No other major release is scheduled until Christmas at the earliest. So scapegoat or not, it's a direct cause and effect of the decision to postpone.
Exactly.