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Right I don't think studios like Disney are going to be spending mega movie budget money like you saw with those SW shows. Though I don't know how they can square that with the fact that theater attendance is still trending downwards.
I don't think if 3D happened now, rather than when it did to make everyone sick of it, that it would have changed fortunes too much.
But I do think something that can set the theater experience further apart from watching at home in a similar way would be beneficial.
Alternatively, this is kind of anti-consumer, but does anyone remember how long it took for a movie to hit home video back in like, the '80s?
Maybe if movies didn't hit streaming three weeks after opening in theaters, people would be more inclined to go and check them out when they are.
But I do think something that can set the theater experience further apart from watching at home in a similar way would be beneficial.
Alternatively, this is kind of anti-consumer, but does anyone remember how long it took for a movie to hit home video back in like, the '80s?
Maybe if movies didn't hit streaming three weeks after opening in theaters, people would be more inclined to go and check them out when they are.
I remember. I don't know when movies started moving from theaters to home video at warp speed, but it can't be helping theater numbers.
When every studio and their mother started their own streaming service and needed content to try and inflate their subscriber numbers for the investors.
It was before that. I remember seeing DVDs in the stores like a month after the initial theatre run. This was in the 2010s. They were greasing that pipeline long before streaming picked up.
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True. Things seem to have gotten worse with the advent of streaming. Besides the shorter down time, the relatively cheaper price, convenience and how the pandemic conditioned people to watch stuff at home, the effects are much more apparent though.
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Except when you cant.
Yes and no. I think the pandemic "boosted" streaming ahead of where it would have been, and that gave a lot of studios and corporations the false bravado to go all in on streaming thinking The Future Is Now.
But that hasn't panned out. Disney is notably shifting away from an emphasis on streaming to refocus on theatrical releases, and subscription numbers haven't lived up to projections for a while now. Notably this spring/summer has already seen a bit of a rebound in terms of tickets sold to theatrical releases. I doubt it'll ever go back to the way it was before, but I do think the reports of the theatrical release's demise have been greatly exaggerated.
I think that, as we continue to get further away from the pandemic, you're going to see an increasing willingness for audiences to go back to the theatres. Arguably we've already begun to see the start of it.
Again, this won't be a full regression, but it leaves studios in a bit of a bind. Their projections for streaming being the future were a bit premature, and viewership/subs hasn't born that out, but streaming isn't so dead that they can just shut the services down. It's a thing people broadly like, enough to take a chunk out of theatres' profits, but not as much as everyone expected as things level out post-pandemic, so studios are left in this limbo where they can't really commit to one over the other.