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It wouldn't be a dealbreaker for me but I can certainly see the necessity and benefits of 4k UHD from a marketing POV.
I wonder how many people took the 4k UHD option witb WW '84?
I suppose he is serious, our very own Trump. Someone with the mind and understanding of a little kid, who wants to get his way and yells and screams, if he does not get, what he wants. Sorry, usually I don't use language like this, and talk about and to other users this way, but it's getting tiresome. Because he does not want to discuss things, but just repeats the same tune, like a broken record.
One of the few people I would appreciate an "ignore" button. Maybe he should talk to people, who have lost beloved people to Covid19. Or people, who got infected and got healed, but still have to deal with the effects of it.
I myself would buy it on DVD as I still regularly watch and buy DVDS, and I don't own a Blu-ray or 4K UHD player.
I'm still on BluRay and haven't made the jump to 4k yet. I'd definitely recommend upgrading to at least BluRay! Stuff looks great.
And for you, I'd recommend the upgrade to 4K, though it's certainly not as noticeable as that DVD-to-blu-ray jump was.
I suppose it depends on how big your screen is. The jump from SD to Blu-Ray would be noticeable for me, but I don't have a big enough screen to justify the 4K jump, unless it's HDR.
Same. I have a sub-50” TV and sit far enough away that I don’t think my eyes would notice the jump from 1080p to 4K. A higher refresh rate would be nice for gaming though.
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With the talk of the current lockdown only being partially lifted by March/April I guess some move is inevitable for sure, the question now is whether that's an immediate move to months later or a Tenet-like slight push as timelines become clearer.
And it's worth noting once more... absolutely nothing is making a billion until 2022. The other studios are experimenting with VOD more and more or just sticking to dates and / or not moving back massively to 2022 etc to avoid further delays on their slates (eg Warner Bros). Whether it's a perfect solution financially is another question, of course it's not, but everyone's at this point trying to go for the least painful option for these films stuck in limbo.
It's no longer about making a profit, it's about losing the least amount of money. And as long as someone is paying MGM, it doesn't matter who - streamer or what. (Except to EON and the 007 brand but the WB move is definitely a thing that's gonna erode that expectation)
I’m pretty curious to see what will happen to Black Widow (scheduled a month after NTTD). We should pray Disney to stick with that release date. Theaters need cash, people must keep on going to the movies again and the summer season must be saved this year.
(Also we did see something kinda similar happen here as a result of the last delay - the Aretha Franklin biopic Respect. That was due out this month, but then they pushed it back to August apparently because NTTD needed to be out first, to help finance an Oscar campaign for it.)
What do you think will happen? Best guess scenario. We won't hold it against you if you're wrong. :))
Which leaves summer, sticking in April if a streamer is willing to pony up enough and EON don't veto, or doing what Tenet did - incrementally pushing back while keeping its "first blockbuster out the gate" position depending on lockdowns ending and cinema reopening timelines in the UK, Europe and New York/LA. (Asia is by and large as ready as it can be right now) We may all crow on about Tenet but that's still done nearly $400m in *worse* circumstances than this would be going into, if NTTD were to go down that route.
If I had my money on something right now, it's that Tenet approach.
I would bet my money on NTTD being postponed until they find an “”optimal”” window in order to gross at least $600/700 millions at the worldwide box office.
Man, I hate to say it (and I know you said you don't know and that's fine) but I feel there's little chance NTTD would have been the highest-grossing of 2020 even without COVID. 'Bond is Bond' is precisely the sort of thing I'm trying to question here because - people care but now, especially in the U.S., not as much as they do for Marvel, for DC, for Fast and Furious even, and there's a good chance if MI7 and NTTD went head to head in normal conditions they'd be *very* close, certainly wouldn't be an easy win for Bond (not to say it wouldn't come on top but it'd be a battle). The only places where it would be close to if not the highest-grossing of the year - the UK and parts of Europe. That's the only places where 'Bond is Bond' applies.
And now add to that the delays that have been the most publicised out of any film affected by COVID...
"I'm hopeful that it'll come out. But what comes first is the health of the world, and entertainment like our film is obviously secondary to that." I presume that was from an interview for the last TF cover which was *before* the latest November to April delay...
Another move is completely predictable. The US is a disaster, and will be until Biden takes office and defers to scientists about the pandemic. The UK is also trending in the wrong direction.
Everyone should be patient...hopefully if the general public gets vaccinated in the spring/summer as scheduled, NTTD can have a fall release.
In the US NTTD was projected to gross an estimated $250 million (by Forbes) but with a SF kind of reception the $300 million target would have been possible. Bond never made Marvel or DC numbers in the US. A film like WW made $100 million more than Bond’s highest grossing film domestic. A terrible mess like SS made more than SF in the US. It’s no today’s news that most of dear Americans have... different sensibilities... let’s put it this way.
IMO a Tenet strategy (almost a year later with a lot of millions already lost) would be a suicide. I suspect that they won’t release the film as long as theaters won’t work with a 100% capacity in most of the big markets. Even in the various announcements they kept on saying that “they won’t release the film because they want it to be seen by the wider audience possible”.
MGM doesn’t have tons of blockbusters down the pipeline. MGM doesn’t have a streaming service and their asking was almost the double of the bigger offer. Bond is their only ace and going with a Tenet strategy would be a huge gamble as I see things...
Yes, there was, but in April 2019 they announced the April 2nd release date.
I would expect FF9 to do better than Bond ( The last two instalments made over a billion worldwide ) but wont hit the billion dollar mark if it does get released this year.
Just because of China.
So it's not just bond, ff9 might not get released this year as well.
If this is how you deal with something out of your control, like the release of a film. Albeit a Bond film, and let’s be clear, 99% of members here are waiting frantically for its eventual release. But if you get this worked up over the release of a movie, how do you deal with everyday real problems in your life?