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The majority may not be, but enough are to make it financially unfeasible. I’d see it in theatres too after a stream release, but Craig’s point remains; we’re the minority there. Non hardcore fans will watch it at home and that will be enough for them.
I guess we just look at the world differently then, @Zekidk :-?? I'm just not really sure what the payoff would be from a business point of view.
Payoff? This event would be marketed and sponsored. Who doesn't want to be affiliated with it? And then there's the mark on history as I mentioned earlier. Some things just can't be bought!
Exactly, @NickTwentyTwo! In a nutshell.
Marketed and sponsored by who?
Pepsi, Coca Cola, Heineken, Nestle, Samsung, Mastercard, Google, Adidas, your local deli ...I don't know. Someone who wants to attach their name to the project/event.
I see, thanks.
Well, all I can say is that I genuinely admire your optimism!
It's very easy to throw other peoples' money away! :)
All we (the human race) had to do was lock sh*t down for a month or six weeks. No travel. Mandatory delivery of all goods. Maintain complete distancing. This was a small sacrifice. But nooooooooooo.
So here we are. A virus mutating like a mofo, ten months later, and we're not better off.
That all said, I am optimistic that vaccine distribution will get better in the weeks/months ahead. NTTD's delay won't be put off as far as November.
Umm, you might not have noticed, but we have vaccines now.
Did you read his follow-up sentence before excluding it from your quote, or....?
I laugh when I think how quickly we could have been done with this pandemic. Then I cry.
I apologize world, for my government’s incompetence. I didn’t vote them in, but I apologize for a few of them, as they should have been term-limited or voted out LONG ago. So, blame my government and these idiots who keep voting people in who clearly don’t care for anything else but their bank accounts.
Interesting to know! Sounds like an equally poor alternative though...
Hinx should have just given a terrible scream... would have been much better.. words weren't needed
No way this is happening this year. NTTD's release may be next spring, assuming the vaccination roll-out goes well, and an unforeseen new strain doesn't suddenly arrive which these current vaccines can't affect.
As far as Bond 26 goes, it's one of these impossibly far off concepts like heat death.
If they were smart, they would already be planning it or at least writing it.
Many have tried to explain why releasing on streaming won't work for Bond 25. The main issue is that there isn't a natural service for it to head to, and the likes of Apple/Neltflix/Amazon aren't willing to cough up 600+ million for a single film (which is what it would have to make to break even). Secondly MGM don't exactly have a factory pumping out a dozen blockbusters per year like Disney and WB. Outside of a few smaller films, and the Creed franchise, this Bond movie is the culmination of 6 years work. They can't afford to simply dump it on Netflix and move on, the financial repercussions would be disastrous.
At some point in future movie theaters will be open again, and people will eventually come around to watching things on the big screen. I think there is validity in the idea that the first films out which capture the public are likely to receive a bump, since going to the cinema will be a cultural novelty again. A bit like after Jaws the shark dies, everyone wants to go for a swim. The trick is getting the timing right, I think at this point between April and November 2022 is a safe bet, this year is probably gonna be turbulent, with new strains popping up, and intermittent lockdowns continuing.
Once we begin to talk about Bond 26, then things really to get interesting. I'm starting to think perhaps @ToTheRight and others are correct, and that we might not see another film this decade. There is so much background shuffling that needs to take place before they can even start to think about the next project. Casting a new Bond is a careful job in itself, and they've managed to maintain a good record at it so far...
Apparently MGM borrowed the money to make it so they need to pay that back. It seems likely they do need to release it.
True, which is exactly why they can't afford to just drop it on netflix.
Their only option is to continue to accrue debt until the movie can safely open, and hope it opens BIG.
I bet Barbara and EON are confident they have the goods.
Or years from now when we do reach that stage when cinemas are all open and we reach normalcy to how it was before the pandemic, people would be more cautious about going back out to crowd the cinemas. This whole delay after delay is just dumb. Delay the upcoming April release, and it'll only be delayed again and again and again. Unless they go digital and release simultaneously in the cinemas, we would never see it.
It is dumb. Because they are targeting an unrealistic theatrical only release which won't happen anytime soon. So they won't earn anything from the countless delays. Whereas if they were to release it in April simultaneously with cinemas and digital download/on demand etc just like WW84, they would still be earning something for the movie rather than not earning anything at all from the countless delays, pushing it back hoping to earn big through cinemas which won't be opening anytime soon.
I would say that taking a small amount now when you can take a larger amount later would be pretty dumb.
It's their money, it's not ours: we don't get to decide what they do with it. They also have more information than we do and have a better idea of what they need to do, and what they need to get.
They know better than us. It's their job, their property, their money.
Unless WW '84 magically makes a lot more money in the next few weeks, the tandem cinema and VOD/streaming release hasn't proven successful in any way yet.