Dr. Ruth and Richard Simmons on the same day.  Farewell, legends.  The 80s really are over. 

I’ve always liked to see trailers but commercials suck. That shit started like 20 years ago too, it’s not new.

What kind of idiot doesn’t understand that when you change your entire delivery model that your entire delivery model will change?

“When we dammed the river, we weren’t expecting this lake to form!”

You think studios would have learned something from Top Gun: Maverick which had a much longer (these days) theatrical run before Paramount let it go to streaming/VOD. I know that was almost entirely due to Cruise’s insistence, but surely some studio suit would have thought “y’know, maybe the kid’s on to something…

“Studios like Disney ‘weren’t thinking at the time that we would change or disrupt the theatrical experience’ when pivoting to streaming.”

Especially because Netflix was spending absolutely stupid money on a lot of those shows.  Seemed like everything they announced was a $200 million investment.  They created their own arms race.

I’m aware of Tubi and Crackle. But moreover I think it’s silly to have to download numerous apps and set up user accounts AND hunt things down to find them on whatever service is hosting them for a few weeks/months.

“but the general result was a drastic cut to the expected window between a film’s theatrical and VOD/streaming release.”

Except, why would Netflix do that? To prop up theaters, a whole business they don’t need except for award show qualifications?

I would add that CEOs are all about maximizing short term profit (I may not be here in 5 years!) and if that means killing the goose that lays the golden eggs for goose meat now, they’ll do it.

Look, the industry’s led by idiot middle managers who don’t know anything about movies and barely face any consequence for being wrong. They chased short-term profits, some got it and execs cashed out, and they gave up long-term sustainability. That’s it. They pretended the pandemic era would last forever, so they…

Except that’s not totally true, because Netflix did almost single-handedly kill the home video market, which was lucrative enough to cause movies that bombed in the theater market, yet make bank on VHS/DVD, etc. sales, to get sequels that would make money both in theaters and at home.

I love going to movies and do so often. But people's behavior is changing. In the last month and a half I have been to three movies where people have iPads out. Even at lowest brightness it's still annoying. That's what's making me go less. I went to a R rated horror movie and there was a group of teenagers taking…

The loss of home video/DVD sales and rentals is a big deal for the lower- or mid-budged rom coms and such like we saw in the late ‘90s. I remember Matt Damon talking about that on Hot Ones and I thought it was a really good point. If there’s no market to recoup the cost of the film, studios will focus even more on the…

...what? my point was that young people are energized and excited about rep screenings and old movies, are actively seeking them out and learning.

they bent the knee for glass onion and even then only let it play for 2 weeks. netflix has a relationship with the tiff theatre here in toronto so i do get to see them sometimes, but why not let people see beverly hills cop 4 in a theatre for 4th of july weekend? what’s the harm?

As a theater and streaming patron: Both services suck.

It’s almost like the demand for content doesn’t magically grow just because that would be nice for some company’s bottom line.

It’s genuinely mysterious to me why streaming companies that have spent significant amounts of money making movies (Netflix spent ~$166m on Rebel Moon) they don’t put those in theaters first with the promise that the only place you will be able to watch it once it leaves theaters is on their streaming service.

It’s called “market cannibalization”. It’s a very basic concept of product development. I imagine they had very smart analysts who warned them about it, but management loves to ignore research they pay for. I have a theory that becoming a C-level executive is harmful to your cognitive abilities.