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Nope. Too much money at stake. Hollywood will still produce movies. Theaters may die or change, but Hollywood will go on.
I agree. There's still an experience of watching a movie on a big screen that you can't get at home. Granted, that's not an issue for the average FBG with our own massive indoor theaters, but it does matter for the general public. I think that theater revenue will be much less of the movie revenue pie, however.
I guess my question with that is if theaters die, how does Hollywood get the content out?
Seems like the obvious answer. I’m sure Disney is tired of splitting ticket revenue with AMC. Just buy them out, theme the places with Disney/marvel/Star Wars designs and rake in the money.
I bought Bill and Teds new movie for $25 the other day. It was decent, but after I thought about how thankful I was to be able to watch a new movie, Sunday morning drinking coffee and the kids eating pop corn.
Reminds me of Amazon buying up the mall space of stores they helped put out of business.
Could be if they own a certain % of available theaters. Could certainly get into a pricing fixing situation.
Good point. Really they could just buy up the one or two biggest theaters in big cities and make them tourist attractions instead of buying a whole slew. The scarcity would draw the buyers.
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They would argue that it's not fixing because they phase the releases out over different platform and having one platform at a high price does not restrict you from waiting for a different platform. If DeBeers can get away with this logic (arguing mostly that you can always find a cheaper diamond at any size), MGM sure can.
Yes, that is actually how the movie business used to be. Loew's Theaters created MGM by merging 3 film production companies (Metro, Goldwyn and Mayer). This was pretty much standard practice then but United Stats v Paramount ruled against the practice and Loews and MGM were forced to separate.
If the pandemic can somehow take down the Kardashians and all of reality TV with it it’s a sacrifice I’d be willing to make....
I think this was a bigger advantage for theaters when watching at home meant watching on a 19" 480i CRTzamboni said:
Maybe you don’t understand how this works. If AMC goes under right as the pandemic ends, we will have Amazon theaters, Apple theaters or Facebook theaters. The buildings aren’t going anywhere and plenty of people (myself included) literally cannot wait until they can go to a movie theater. I’d suspect the energy in the first marvel movie that is released to a packed house will be unreal.pantherclub said:
Anti-Trust laws are a thing of the past. Nobody wants to put their name on laws that will hurt the reelection cash donations,
I'm a bit surprised that the studios are choosing to delay releases rather than find ways to go direct to consumer via streaming. I definitely don't think theaters will go back to anywhere near their prior levels.E Street Brat said:
This. Theaters will always be the defacto first, second and fourth date. Where families go to get away from each other. Where parents go when they finally trust a babysitter. Where a ton of kids from 12-16 spends the middle of the day during the summer, when they want to meet the opposite sex (who will be staring into their phones the entire time).bostonfred said:
I am with you, especially for genre movies like horror and comedy. It's great with a great crowd.
While I disagree on the quality of current streaming movies, even if we were to assume that the point here is that if theaters went away the current theatrical quality/type releases would be streaming movies instead. It's not like Disney is going to stop making Marvel movies because there are no theaters and they have to sell them direct to consumers instead.
DeBeers didn't get away with it. They pled guilty to price fixing and paid a fine. Until they did so they were not allowed to directly enter the US market. Since they did so--they have also lost the huge monopoly they had on the diamond market. Most people in the trade that have knowledge believe that DeBeers currently controls maybe 25-35% of the diamond trade when before--they controlled 90%+.culdeus said:
Funny, I was thinking just the opposite, that nobody would care enough about the theatre experience after a year+ of appreciating the benefits of watching movies at home. I guess it will boil down to how many people share your enthusiasm.
