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Originally Posted by goodgrowth
Don't understand why they don't release some of these new movies to rent for $20 on video on demand. That would be the approximate equivalent of two movie tickets.
I think there has been some similar experimentation with this in recent years where movies are available to rent at a higher price relatively quickly after it's been the theatres.
I guess the economics of forgoing the box office just don't work for bigger budget movies..
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I think the other factor as well, is that the studios aren't MAKING anything new at the moment. So one way or another there is going to be a gap in movies coming up. By delaying the major releases they have in the can now, they can use the existing films to cover the gap when production restarts. Especially since the general public may not completely understand why a future gap might exist when "everything else is open and back to normal" sometime in the future.
There's going to be a trickle of new movies regardless once production restarts, but by making sure the 'gap' in production matches the gap from theatre closures and when everything else is closed, it means less to explain to the stupid public.
In other theatre news,
the Cineplex/Cineworld deal is the deal that keeps giving lawsuits it seems.
Both sides have filed lawsuits over the failed deal seeking various damages. I suspect the only ones to get money out of this will be the lawyers in the end.