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Even if cinemas are open, social distancing, edge of Winter where respiratory illnesses thrive, older demographic shielding, cases increasing with hospital admissions and respirator use a lagging indicator. The decision to green light the November publicity campaign was made just before case numbers started to take off again but Universal need to do the right thing and delay for 12 months.
If NTTD does release in November, it may become increasingly unlikely that I will get to see it in theaters if the situation keeps degrading.
If it gets to that point, I will join the 'NTTD must be delayed' camp. I have no desire of discovering a new Bond film on VOD or directly on Blu Ray.
Let s see what the government says.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsregisteredweeklyinenglandandwalesprovisional/latest
From the UK link:
https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/the-shows-must-go-on-series-free-musicals_52428.html
the Tenet 2.0 narrative really picking up with this film...
Yeah and it’s annoying. I still can’t believe EoN is goin full steam into this suicide mission with their only precious asset.
The stakes have never been higher.
What is surprising to me re: this topic is how many people sure sound like they're rooting for Bond (or maybe just Eon) to fail here. Look, I want to see this movie ASAP just like the rest of us. Theaters aren't open yet in my neck of the woods and if NTTD is indeed released in November I probably won't be able to see it on a large screen with an audience around me ... for that matter, I probably won't be able to see it until it's released on DVD and Blu-ray. I fully recognize that it's not going to be able to make blockbuster $$$$ for a long time, and probably never WILL see the sort of returns it would have seen in a pre-COVID world. But we are where we are and we take what we can get. I recognize this fact, the movie moguls recognize this fact, and I don't think anybody's going to fault the Bond franchise for not bringing in a billion bucks this time around. Still, the movie industry needs to pick up and move forward -- your local theater needs this as much as if not more than anybody else in the food chain -- so I'm hoping that NTTD is indeed released in November. I hope it does as well as possible financially, given current realities... and I fully expect that it will be released in a wide variety of other formats, VOD, DVD, B-RAY, and anything else that can be thought of, ASAP, once it's had a reasonable run in the theaters. Assuming the film industry does indeed survive in one form or another once we have attained a New Normal, then James Bond will indeed return. So let's cease this useless bitching about why The Powers That Be have not recognized the excellence of whichever plan you or I have been promoting... and just root for Bond to save the world as we know it one last time, okay?
Now in this case, it mostly won't.
Exactly. If NTTD fails at the box office, no one will be blamed and fired for it, and making Bond films in the future won't be jeopardized. They will most likely be made with smaller budgets, and I'm all for it.
The only consequence will be that very rich people will lose some money instead of earning some.
Okay? No.
I don’t see the point of releasing a film in the worst possible window of the year, since by November with colder temperatures affecting Bond’s main markets the situation will get far worse. Everyone’s delaying for a reason, but if we are fine with Bond being the only sacrificial lamb in order to save the industry* for Fast and Furious and Tom Cruise in a complete suicide manner well, so be it.
I’ve been saying since April that Bond should’ve delay to late Spring/early Summer 2021. We’ll see how F9 will perform next year...
*Surprise, within the current market conditions, neither Endgame would save the industry. Why? Because, beside the fact that we don’t even know if theaters will be open by late 2020 and restrictions are a fact of life, most of the people out there would prefer to see NTTD safe at home, instead of being locked inside a room for 3 hours.
I’m wondering, since releasing NTTD in November will 100% mean missing the $500+ million break even point, a 2022 re-release for the 60th anniversary would be nice.
Thank you. Yes.
Also: the Liam Neeson action flick Honest Thief has been delayed by 1 week, in anticipating of more theaters being open by October 16th. This leaves War with Grandpa as the only new wide release in the next 3 weeks.
Money to be made? Yes there is, but it is not remotely enough. I see your point but it was EoN decision to start again the marketing campaign right after Tenet first encouraging weekend, and honestly I don’t see $30/50 million already lost on marketing a solid reason to release the film right through the flu season knowing it will lose in the best case scenario 50% of its pre-Covid potential gross.
Let's hope people are in the mood for a visit to a cinema in November just as respiratory disease starts to thrive.
The world needs Bond!
Yeah...well, at least not many people die from it any longer in our part of the world. But more and more people will die or suffer in an indefinite lockdown.
Of course here in the US we're still in the first wave.
I believe the only way to launch this year is a staggered theatre release and a PVOD release simultaneously.
"Maoyan Research Institute on Sept. 1 released a report summarizing the first stage of cinemas reopening, which lasted for 43 days, revealing a revived movie market in China.
After about 6 weeks of reopening, around 75% of all Chinese cinemas have resumed operations"
https://pandaily.com/43-days-after-re-opening-chinese-movie-theaters-see-new-life/