Things Get Worse for Movie Theaters

GrundleStiltzkin

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Warner Bros. is plotting a sweeping response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has shuttered movie theaters around the country. After announcing that Wonder Woman 1984 will go to HBO Max as well as theaters on Dec. 25, the studio has laid out a similar path for its 2021 slate amid uncertainty about when movie-going will get back to normal.

The studio announced Thursday day-and-date releases for its 17-film slate, which will hit HBO Max for a one-month window that starts the same day they will be available in U.S. theaters.

The studio's 2021 slate includes projects such as The Suicide Squad, The Matrix 4, Dune, Godzilla vs. Kong and Space Jam: A New Legacy. Other films include Little Things, Judas and the Black Messiah, Tom & Jerry, Mortal Kombat, Those Who Wish Me Dead, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, In The Heights, Reminiscence, Malignant, The Many Saints of Newark, King Richard and Cry Macho.

The unprecedented move is likely to catch theater owners off guard and upsets a model that has been in place for decades. Warner Bros. stresses that these are pandemic-only rules, but once something is broken, can you really put it back together again? This also raises serious concerns about the landscape of movie-going in 2021.

dnc

This couch sale was inevitable

RaceBannon

Almost all of those are remakes or sequels. The creativity in Hollywood is staggeringly bad

GrundleStiltzkin

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Found Throbber's alt

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Doog_de_Jour

I worked in a movie theater during college. Loved it. Saw all these new releases and rare art house films on the big screen for free. Was so broke at the tim my dinners were either leftover popcorn or soft pretzels from the concession stand. 81% sure my boss sold drugs as a side hustle.

With that in mind, movie theaters and that business model were dying before the pandemic. They’ll still continue on, just as we have orchestra performances, playhouses, etc. but not in the numbers we have today.

RaceBannon

The rise of affordable huge screen 4k video is going to kill theaters and sports live attendance

greenblood

Doog_de_Jour said:

I worked in a movie theater during college. Loved it. Saw all these new releases and rare art house films on the big screen for free. Was so broke at the tim my dinners were either leftover popcorn or soft pretzels from the concession stand. 81% sure my boss sold drugs as a side hustle.

With that in mind, movie theaters and that business model were dying before the pandemic. They’ll still continue on, just as we have orchestra performances, playhouses, etc. but not in the numbers we have today.

Tickets for you, wife, and 2 kids $24

Bucket of Popcorn $7

A box of Junior Mints $4

2 boxes of sour patch kids $8

Two large Pepsi's $14

Two small Pepsi's for the kids $10

Total- $67

Let's be real, this is only on the rare occasion we don't sneak in our food and drinks, except for the popcorn. Movie theatre popcorn is the tits.

Nonetheless, the cost isn't justifiable anymore, when you can watch from home.

YellowSnow

We need mor westerns. Fuck all this comic book bull shit.

IPukeOregonGrellow

GrundleStiltzkin said:

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Found Throbber's alt

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My first job was pumping gas at a movie theater. FREE POPCORN PUB!!!!!!

AtomicDawg

YellowSnow said:

We need mor westerns. Fuck all this comic book bull shit.

This comic book shit is all they have in the suburbs. It’s awful. But ppl like what they are told to like a lot of the time. When I was growing up nobody gaf about these super hero’s and now the same ppl that didn’t gaf cum their pants when the new marvel movie comes out. Really weird.

PurpleThrobber

GrundleStiltzkin said:

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Found Throbber's alt

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Make Drive-In handies great again.

RoadDawg55

RaceBannon said:

Almost all of those are remakes or sequels. The creativity in Hollywood is staggeringly bad

Hollywood is for China. Dialogue and plot hardly matters. Just blow up some shit and have the Transformers or comic book heroes in the movie and the movie will be a success from the overseas box office.