>>Movie theaters have threatened to blacklist any movie released on pay-per-view or on home video outside the accepted eight to twelve week window. For obvious reasons, theater owners are terrified moviegoers will embrace the idea of seeing a just-released movie at home instead of the theater. And so, for the last decade, it’s been a game of chicken, where the studios dare not antagonize the theater owners, especially when the studios don’t know if moviegoers will embrace paying $20 to rent a just-released movie for 24 hours. Think about the risk; just like that, they could lose tens of millions of dollars on their investment. No one wants to take that chance.The coronavirus changed all that.
Pay-Per-View Success of ‘Trolls 2’ Could Change Hollywood Forever
Jayden Smith
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Oliver Nelson
Was it a success? really?
Lucas Young
Biggest streaming debut yet, iirc.
David Johnson
Fuck theaters and fuck their overpriced concessions.
Daniel Jackson
They are a social experience, that is part of the fun.
Jace Harris
All it proved was, if forced to sit in, people will pay for a movie. When people are allowed to congregate in large numbers again, parties will have 1.50-2.00 movie night.
Zachary Green
>buying anything other than corn and a drink
Andrew Thomas
Oh yes, the "social experience" of being a room full of people who happen to be staring at the same screen as you, and if you're lucky they'll keep their goddamn mouths shut. Good riddance.
Jace Powell
I wonder if this means good news for Scoob, even if theaters were open that movie was likely to underpeform
Zachary Campbell
Where the hell else am I going to go for air conditioning?
Michael Sanchez
The grocery store.
Aiden Foster
What kind of fucking destitute faggot are you that you don't have air conditioning at home? Better stop going to the movies and make better life decisions.
Dylan King
No Patrick, air conditioning is not a social experience.
Jaxon Johnson
100 fucking million
Theatres are dead.
Anthony Taylor
>“With nearly five million rentals, the digital release has in three weeks generated more revenue for Universal than the original Trolls did during its five-month theatrical run,"
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Jack Gray
People?
Christopher Bell
The bigger problem is that is Trolls 2.
I guess kids really are stupid.
Matthew Baker
Burgerbux
Isaiah Hughes
God damn
It isn't killing regular movie releases but sure as hell is killing anything that isn't big blockbuster
Cameron Anderson
I can't believe RLM's dream to see the death of cinema actually came to fruition.
Nicholas Green
Good. I HOPE this becomes the new Normal. I hate being stuffed in a theater. Just charge me abit.
Let me and my friends pull out some drinks and food then watch at our own pace.
Also Trolls 2 was Ok. First was better and the cartoon is WAAAY better
Isaiah Garcia
oh shit this might actually do well
Jack James
Use an archive, user.
Jace Edwards
Based upon numbers released from the creators of 'Trolls 2' with no way to verify them.
... gee, I believe them...
Samuel Gutierrez
dreamworks changing the industry again
Ryder Cruz
Sorry AMC you're going out of business
Jason Cox
I'm the exact opposite
I prefer the theater than watching shit at home
Brandon Gomez
trolls 2 was the movie that killed theaters
this is going to go down in history books, anons
Gabriel Gomez
Give me the option then.
Hudson Reyes
>I HOPE this becomes the new Normal.
Go fuck yourself faggot.
Owen Smith
In a good theater experience, emotions are amplified. Funny things are funnier, scary things are scary, exciting things are more so.
I can't really explain it but it is. Also watching on your tv or computer isn't the same as watching on a screen bigger than your house.
Charles Carter
Why can't we have both?
Just charge more for the one that has more demand.
Nicholas Anderson
>Just charge more for the one that has more demand.
Wait... I got it wrong, I meant the other way around.
Gavin Gonzalez
>Sonic the hedgehog, the last biggest earning movie before the pandemic
>Trolls 2, the movie that could possibly change the movie industry forever, killing theaters with its success.
What a time to be alive.
Ayden Johnson
holy shit.
animated movies will never be released in theaters again.
Benjamin Ross
So far it looks like a monkey's paw.
Daniel Johnson
Good. Fuck theaters. They deserve the same fate as big box retail stores.
Leo Butler
did you see that comic shop owners? this is your future
Hudson Watson
HAHAHAHAHA
TIMES ARE A-CHANGING, FAGGOTS
Jordan Garcia
I doubt it would make as much money if people weren't stuck at home
Blake Cooper
If it does, it'll be a game changer for children and family movies for sure. Time will tell if this format will work for everything else.
Jackson Peterson
theaters are just out of style, for now. Home entertainment is whats all the rage. Theaters will come back in style in a few decades if/when pod life gets old. That or we just become Ready Player One irl.
Christopher Ward
Disney will likely
Low budget kid shit is over with
This could be amazing if it pans out right for animated films
Christian Wilson
That was uncalled for, mario.
Adrian Wilson
Can someone tell me how Pixar's Onward is doing? Has it been released for streaming?