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Then you should just view it as 2019 film.
The clothes and hairstyles will also be from 2019 making the film all the more confusing.
QOS was filmed with Bush as president, and was released after Obama won.
Did it matter? I don't think so.
Most other films, that get released this year, were filmed even BEFORE Bond.
So they are much more outdated.
Amazon nears deal to buy MGM Studios for nearly $9 billion
A transaction could be announced as soon as Tuesday, sources say.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/24/amazon-nears-deal-to-buy-mgm-for-nearly-9-billion.html
It is not needed to do official Corona test, but same rules as before. Tickets online only, mouth cap in waitingroom/toilet and can't get in waitingroom 15 minutes before movie started.
Some movies go straight to DVD and BD (or 4KBD), but Universal/Warner wil be happy that there can release Fast9 and Croods 2. And Warner with Godzilla vs Kong. Order tickets wil start on 30 May.
"Here's why straight-to-streaming blockbusters might never work"
As a result of the pandemic, studios started releasing movies in theaters and on streaming on the same day. But is that really a good thing? CNN Business' Frank Pallotta explains why that strategy may not become the solution for your favorite blockbusters.
It's a fairly inhospitable time to be a blockbuster at the box office currently. We have had a string of flops or films underperforming, namely:
There have been some success stories though. Godzilla vs Kong benefitted from being 'first', F9 got a big assist from China and A Quiet Place Part 2 benefited from being a fairly small film which was much anticipated.
Considering the superhero films are really the lifeblood of the box office and even those are faltering, it does go to show that audience appetites are changing - especially now there is a glut of similar content to stream at home. I would say that the at home streaming option provided by Disney and WB is killing the BO. However, some films have overperformed in spite of that. I think piracy may be a bigger factor here, as younger people are much more savvy on the internet and they are the core audience who turn up to see these films multiple times.
Though, since the Delta variant is now taking off in the USA and vaccinations have plateaued (incidentally, this the exact opposite of what is happening in the UK at the time of writing). Some publications have now gone on the record saying that there is a possibility that the domestic box office will be too weak to sustain films like No Time To Die, Eternals, Venom: Let There be Carnage, and Spider-Man: No Way Home (the latter of which hasn't started marketing).
Currently, I'd say it be very difficult for the film to hit $600m (CR's gross) and it's looking for something closer to $350-400m (closer to Tenet or 1917 numbers). Given the current market, that would be a 'hit.'
Though with dynamic theatrical-windows, NTTD will only want/need 30-45 days in theatres before it moves to Blu-Ray, digital and streaming. It'll make more money in PVOD, etc. So I guess the accounting will be different. Personally, I say they keep to October. They know it won't be as successful and will only ever require a short theatrical-window before moving on to different platforms. That will be the same going into 2022. In this sense, NTTD was always a transitional film before the Amazon takeover comes into play.......Now is the time that Eon are sweating and deciding if the market can sustain a film like NTTD.
If it's available to streaming services, people will watch it there. People who have HBO Max subscriptions will not pay to see a movie in a theater if they can watch at home. Cruella and Jungle Cruise is also available at a cheaper rate than seeing it in theaters for a family of 4. My family did the same thing last weekend for Space Jam 2, that a month subscription at $15 is cheaper than 4 of us going to a theater, dropping 50-70 for tickets and concessions.
F9 and Quiet Place 2 was theater only. NTTD will be more profitable than any film that releases on a duel theater/streaming platform.
If EoN sticks to October, it would be only because they made peace with the fact that this film is a cursed lost cause.
The alternative is to delay the film to the spring of 2022 in the hope that the delta variant will be under control by then. But for all anyone knows there will be the epsilon or gamma variants in 2022 and so we will be back at square one yet again
Some people.
And in the end it depends on how politicians and the media speak about Covid.
If they tend to panic, people tend to panic.
If they say, that you don't have to fear anything when you're vaccinated, people will be more confident again.
How about that? 1/3 of F9 gross came from China.
The above is a bit of a parody Twitter account I think. Not worth getting your news from.