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Like UCI Cinemas, the largest chain in Italy. AMC has basically hands everywhere.
I believe Universal will apply this model only to selected titles. Plus, I think they know this Troll World Tour success came under unique circumstances.
I disagree with every single word you typed.
And I think that cinemas are ultimately worried that they'll have no say in what those selected titles are. The circumstances of Trolls success aren't relevant to them right now, they're more worried about the precedent this will set.
This will be a game now. Cinemas obviously need wide releases of sizeable films to survive, but likewise studios need those wide releases for things like FAST 9 and NTTD in order to make a decent return on them. $100-200million on VOD wouldn't cut it, I don't think.
We'll just have to wait and see who blinks first and takes the step into the grey area, at least until 2021/2022 comes knocking.
I said this a couple of months back, but it's not only the way films are distributed that will change; the way they are made/produced will now too.
Yes, that's the point. Anyway, to me it looks like this virus just accelerated the future.
I posted an article earlier about the UK's Sky channel confirming they are shutting down all of their productions until 2021. This is at least 8 months of hiatus. What happens when streaming services like Netflix & Amazon actually run out of material to release? I doubt even Netflix has enough TV series stored in their database to last that long, if the situation doesn't improve until next year.
If cinemas are still closed by the end of the summer, I think we will have a lot bigger problems to worry about. I can't even imagine the state of cinema chains & Hollywood will be in after 5 months of closure. Not forgetting that nearly every major productions are suspended indefinitely too, so by then Netflix & co may run out of new materiel to release.
They will...
I just use 'if' to avoid certain members getting angry and retorting that 'everything will be fine shortly'. ;-)
But yes, things are not looking good for this summer, or for this fall for that matter.
I guess the idea is that everything shakes out, in that the films are delayed just as much because of cinemas being closed but productions being shut, so it's just a case of slates being pushed back by a year. With regards to Netflix, they've commented about this very issue, saying their 2020/21 slate of originals is all in post production so that's no problem for them. But seems like productions are finding a way out of this bit quicker, even with restrictions and so on...Sky halting things until 2021 is an exception at the moment.
The owner of Odeon Cinemas has banned all Universal films after the studio said it will release new movies at home and on the big screen on the same day.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52468881
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China's cinemas expected to reopen in June, Beijing official says.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/chinas-cinemas-expected-reopen-june-beijing-official-says-1292369?
That is a 5 months closure. A similar timeframe for US & Europe would bring us to August for a potential re-opening.
EDIT: After carefully re-reading that Hollywood Reporter article, they forgot to mention China has already attempted to re-open their cinemas in late March, only to shut them down completely again a few days later.
That's a good point about Zimmer. I was a bit overly negative in my post. I mean, the cinematography in the Matera scenes clearly looks incredible. I didnt mean that any of the action or style looked bad, just that it didnt excite me particularly, or look particularly special. Compared the the MI:Fallout trailer, NTTD looks very pedestrian. Different films of course...
The doubling down on the SP concepts though really troubles me to be honest.
That's certainly what it looks like. NTTD is a sequel to an unloved film from 5 (maybe 6 when it finally comes out) years ago. Imagine if Goldeneye followed on from LTK and had Bond have to come back to Mi6 from Florida and get reinstated. Bringing Pam Bouvier with him.
Well in China the news about COVID broke in late December. So that would mean 6 months, if they will indeed re-open.
That argument ignores the current state of blockbuster films. The trend currently is to connect all films within an IP. Looking at Marvel, Star Wars, DC, Fast and Furious, MI and Harry Potter World. All major films must have a through line as the audiences now expect this to a certain extent. Cliffhangers across films and multi part films are becoming the norm. As many have stated Bond movies can act as markers for what film was like at the time of their release. This era is no different, it started with gritty real action after bourne, went to a character driven film with Skyfall and is now ending with interconnected storylines across films. Comparing this to pervious Bond films and eras does not account for what films are like now outside of Bond.
................Or imagine if there had been a 6 year gap after AVTAK and Moore returns circa 1991, following up and his relationship with Stacey Sutton and her cat. Christopher Walken returns as well somehow having survived his tumble from the Golden Gate Bridge.
That was really my biggest reservation on NTTD. I'm feeling Fukunaga has probably injected the film with it's own energy and style that's completely Bondian and different from the previous film. I think the visuals look outstanding.
Yeah, I think that has always been a slight worry for most fans, Coz I think very few like SP. EON could have easily gone with a new narrative(something i would have really cherished, considering am a fan of Standalone Bond Adventures) But I have a feeling, EON wants to make SP more relevant by broadening it's myth....so fans in retrospect, will look back at SP with a warmer reception. I liked QoS from the first day I saw it, but i noticed some fans later liked it when SF came out....even without the films having any connection.
Am 100% sure SF was the beginning of Standalone adventures for Craig's Era....I mean, I love the Mission Briefing between M & Bond. it means SP might not have been called SP, meaning a different plot. SP might have been RISICO, SHATTERHAND, SCORPIUS or SEAFIRE.
As Brilliant as Craig's Bond is, most happenings in his era looks contrived, Coz EON were not really sure if they wanted his era to be serialized or standalone. If we heard Silva or Blofeld's name in CR, then it would have been much cooler. The link between CR & QoS is understandable though. I really do think EON adamantly continued SP's narrative in NTTD to prove SP wasn't a mistake, by making it's narrative better in NTTD.
Well we did get the video game Bloodstone, so you could count that if you wanted...
It'll be a rebooted alter ego
Professor Yes
Oh I completely agree. I hate it. Can't stand Marvel, Fast and Furious etc. MI maybe, but only because I like that sort of action. What's the one thing I cannot stand about MI though? Hunt's marriage. To be fair the team aspect was also a feature of the programme anyway, but the soap opera elements I really don't like.
Bond does not deserve a relationship to be a success. The price he has to pay for his job and his vices is perpetual loneliness.
Anyway, I am going off topic. I agree with what you are saying about modern franchises, but i don't have to like it.