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Yes from my younger friends I think a good proportion of anyone around the age of 30 or younger see Craig as the best and some don't even really connect with the older version of Bond. I think we fans underestimate quite how much that reboot changed things and really did add another lease of life for Bond.
This girl on the YouTube (who is rather annoying in how emphatically she talks about things she clearly knows little about) is claiming that Disney is positioning their big Spring/Summer tentpoles of 'Mulan' and 'Black Widow' to move towards streaming.
It could be true, though its very hard to imagine that top-flight Disney executives privy to such conversations would leak to an Internet blogger over more legitimate sources.
Though, it does make me wonder if Eon have had a conversation about NTTD moving to digital download or Netflix......but if they choose either over theatres they move they will take a write-off.
That is the best depiction of Grace that I've ever read. Can't stand her.
Marcello Mastroianni after seeing that photo of Craig:
Hope I look like that when I'm a grandfather.
She is the worst.
Compensation for not having a single worthwhile thing to say.
While you are right about the not having anything to say part. But her loudness is typical of Americans, I think. It's not just a Grace attribute.
...credible sources.
Never heard of this Grace person and I won't watch that video.
Regardless of what you think of Grace, the fact that the theaters in China once again shut down must give one pause to consider that things may still be in bad shape by November. Move the date or stream, that will be a question for EON.
Mulan & Black Widow will NOT be moved towards streaming. This is getting very tiresome.
https://variety.com/2020/film/box-office/black-widow-release-coronavirus-1203532996/
Top marks 007 :-bd
Since the darker days of streaming & reshoots. New series coming: Narcostreaming: Reshoots in Italy.
Considering how bad things are right now, why even wait until it's nearly November to make that decision? Why not consider putting it on streaming beforehand (maybe still during April - please)?
With an icredible taste.
Probably because they've already factored everything in, allocated the marketing spend etc for a November release. Not much point, given the uncertainty, to make that decision so soon - and good for them, having made that move first. Maybe they re evaluate the situation before embarking on actually spending the marketing $$$ and restarting the campaign, which would probably happen in the summer.
Now the big question is, what happens come November. If cinemas don't reopen, I would genuinely think a premium VOD release is seriously on the table. But I think in either case something key to bear in mind is that the likelihood of any film hitting a billion or close to that at the box office when this situation has come and gone is fairly low, things might not get back to normal in that regard until 2021 even.
@Denbigh who said anything about streaming - that's the annoying thing, everyone is immediately assuming if it happens, it would be with an SVOD service... Question is - how long can MGM afford to delay this film's release given they don't have much else? That's equally as much of a risk, I'd argue, as a straight to home drop.
If the cinemas are still closed by November they can always just bump it back another few months, Fast and Furious 9 got pushed back by an entire year after all.
No matter how one spins it when it comes to a $150-300 million+ blockbuster, there's simply no way to fully recoup all the production and marketing costs via streaming or VOD. It's a very desperate last measure.
Yeah plus they'll be making another marketing spend on top of the one they started earlier in the year; the film is already down on profit before it's opened as it is.
Oooh, post no. 2,000 :)
That's my thinking. There may be a streaming campaign that starts after the theatrical run, or something, but I just can't imagine a model where you make the kinds of profits through streaming that EON needs to make.
Unnecessary.
Disney postponed everything. They too want the money from theatrical releases.
Like most things he comes out with.
You beat me to it.
Restrictions and fear are going to persist for a long time.
I can easily see them putting back the release even further.
I just don't see cinema attendances returning to normal by November if you think about the number of older fans who go to see Bond. Those people will be staying away en masse until there's a vaccine, which will be 12 to 18 months away.