Among those films: impending blockbusters and starry event titles with nine-figure budgets (and equally gargantuan marketing costs) including Dune, The Suicide Squad, The Matrix 4 and Space Jam: A New Legacy - films that were never intended for a so-called day-and-date release scheme and whose coexistence as a home-sofa viewing option threatens to provide a death blow to major movie-theater chains like AMC, Cinemark, and Regal, which were already hanging on by a financial thread thanks to malingering pandemic-related closures.įollowing closely on the heels of Warner Bros.’ recent announcement that director Patty Jenkins’s Wonder Woman 1984 would sidestep standard movie-distribution protocol by opening first in cinemas internationally on December 16 and then streaming on HBO Max on Christmas Day (while releasing in domestic theaters the same day), the move caught many in the entertainment industry by surprise - not least executives at production companies behind films on Warner Bros.’ 2021 corridor. announced plans to release all 17 of its 2021 films via an experimental “hybrid model” that will see them premiere in theaters as well as on HBO Max, at the same time - for one month domestically, at least. Photo-Illustration: Vulture and Warner Bros.Īrriving at the calendar end of a bizarro-universe year that has seen North American movie-ticketing revenue free-fall by more than three quarters from 2019 levels, a recent and unprecedented changeup to the 2021 theatrical release corridor sent a seismic jolt across Hollywood. The company’s decision to premiere its 2021 titles on HBO Max has major segments of the movie industry up in arms.
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