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I think it's more that most people are rightly more concerned about their elderly and vulnerable relatives dying than watching a film.
I don't think they're really assuming anything at this point. I think they're hoping, more so.
Yeah, I didn't misunderstand your previous comments. It's still a broad stroke dismissal of a very complicated situation.
It's fanboy entitlement.
He was giving us the straight cold hard facts and you got too touchy over them, disregarding them as "being negative" and giving him crap for it.
What did you expect? STUDIOS ARE A BUSINESS. Harp all you like about the need for entertainment, arts, and escapism, it doesn't change the fact that if the numbers don't line up there's no business. The studios likely found out that whatever numbers NTTD would have drawn up in November wasn't enough.
Theaters are better off staying in hibernation at this point and getting bail out money from governments, rather than running theaters for only five people to show up in total to every screening.
Just accept the fact that movies are not going to come out until much later.
Right now, they're all trying their very best to keep their relevance and they're being resistant to a change that would potentially obliterate them and their means of living.
I think most people aren't aware that this world pandemic is a game changer on all fronts, and right now it threatens not only our lives, literally, but also the way we conduct our lives, and as such, our priorities, our values, and the things at the very core of what defines us as a species, such as our physicality and the way we interact with each other and the world.
This is no small matter, and no one is the wisest. One thing is for certain, we're all doing our best to survive and to make things that matter survive as well.
We'll see if cinemas can survive this. I, for one, hope so, but this will no doubtably dilapidate the overall amount of infrastructures dedicated to it. Many cinemas will not survive. Hell, many people aren't surviving. Get real folks, pandemics are now a possibility, even when Covid gets contained. Our ways of living won't return to "normal", they'll be readjusted, adapted. The only certain thing now is uncertainty. And we must, and I can't stress this enough, we must support our fandoms, our favourite arts and artists, our fellow people who have their livelihood at risk right now. We shouldn't, we can't, in panic and ignorance, kick them when they're down or potentially at risk.
They've been giving us joys for years and years, and now that they are at risk, we berate them like spoiled children. Let's not, please. Let's give them our support. They deserve our very best, as they always try to give us theirs.
Univex out
No prob, @MakeshiftPython. I wholeheartedly agree with this you've just said: "Just accept the fact that movies are not going to come out until much later".
And not only that, but we don't know how or where. But we should be behind their decisions, supporting them. Even if their reasoning is based on numbers, or people safety, or whatever, at the end of the day, they're only trying to survive as a business and way of living. And how could we not support that? Right?
Oh, and btw, by support I also mean we should direct our governments attention to this. Arts are not to be made redundant by the economy based mind set that rules our systems and society.
I just hope this method works out for them: https://deadline.com/2020/09/movie-theater-rescue-filmmakers-nato-mpa-dga-letter-to-congress-theaters-1234589055/
If not enough movie goers can help save cinema, then perhaps this is the way.
We writers have been doing the same, to a certain degree. Well, I'm haven't been directly affected by all of this because I have multiple careers, but I'm along for the fight. As the publishing industry was put to an halt, many books were canceled. And many of my fellow writers depend on those to survive. So, again, we must urge our government to help. Same goes for the orchestras and choirs, dance companies, and many, many other artistic institutions.
"Our man, here...."
Nice work, @Univex
Agreed.And remember,theaters dont get a cut of VOD sales like they do box office.This is exactly why the major cinema chains in the U.S were outraged when Universal put Trolls:World tour on VOD and when it made them a ton of money,said that this was the way forward.
Now is as safe as its going to get to go to the cinema for quite a while.I work in a factory of over 500 people but our workplaces underwent a major overhaul to ensure social distancing and masks are worn wear this is not possible.Cinemas have done the same thing and the studios are literally cutting off their business by not releasing their big franchise films.
I felt safe and comfortable when I went to Tenet. I'm looking forward to seeing The New Mutants this week too.
Certainly explains a lot.
Say No Time To Die was released in November, and we ended up with another Tenet scenario where under the circumstances the film did admirably but not well enough to recover its alleged costs or make it a worthwhile venture. That is the most likely scenario, one that satisfies an element of the public who just want the film but it actually doesn't really save anyone or anything. It gives it a good go, for sure, but cinemas are still in trouble.
What then? Do we just keep pushing that narrative with each new film that was supposed to come along?
I dont think anyone here thinks that any one film ( no matter how good or how popular ) can save cinema but its all about momentum.Tenet kicked it off and it should have been followed by Bond,Black Widow,Wonder Woman (etc).It would have got people going to cinemas again and while the studios would lose some money in the short term,they would in the long term save their own business.
Widow moving to next year was a crippling blow and then the announcement of Bond moving is now seen as the final nail in the coffin.The irony is the studios who did this will not make as much money as they think they will next year cos a LOT of cinemas will be closing their doors permanently.
That’s certainly what they’re hoping. Studios take the hit for the sake of feeding the cinema infrastructure and keep it ticking just for X amount of time.
Obviously the decision has been made now, but in your opinion @antovolk, was that ever viable?
It's not cowardly. It's the pandemic. It would be irreponsible, plus people would be afriad of going to the movies. The only way to improve things would be to get a vaccine to control Covid19.