Warner Brothers pushing all 2021 movies to HBO Max and Theaters Same day in 2021
 

Huge news out of Warner Bros. today. Following the announcement that the highly anticipated Wonder Woman 1984 will be released on HBO Max on Christmas Day for a limited one-month engagement on the streaming service (in addition to a concurrent theatrical release where theaters are open), the studio announced today that all of its 2021 films will follow this same release model.

Yes indeed, movies like Dune, Matrix 4, and Godzilla vs. Kong will be released theatrically worldwide, but concurrent with the domestic theatrical release the movies will also be streaming exclusively on HBO Max for one month. After that one month period is over, the film will depart HBO Max and continue to be available in theaters worldwide, at which time it will follow all customary distribution windows applying to the title – which means after it leaves HBO Max, it will later still have a full Digital HD and Blu-ray/DVD release before eventually returning to the streamer.

The 2021 Warner Bros. films that are expected to be released next year – and that are expected to follow this “on HBO Max and in theaters at the same time” model – include:

The Little Things
Judas and the Black Messiah
Tom & Jerry
Godzilla vs. Kong
Mortal Kombat
Those Who Wish Me Dead
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
In the Heights
Space Jam: A New Legacy
The Suicide Squad
Reminiscence
Malignant
Dune
The Many Saints of Newark
King Richard
Cry Macho
Matrix 4
All films will be available in 4K Ultra HD and HDR on HBO Max.

This hybrid model was created as a strategic response to the impact of the ongoing global pandemic.

https://collider.com/dune-matrix-4-h...r-bros-movies/

Cybercubed and SDP's anthem :lol:

This isn't entirely a bad idea, but I can't help but think that these studios could also give the theaters ONE friggin' week with these flicks before airing them at home.
I mean... ONE WEEK to draw an audience exclusively would be a legit method rather than a dual launch. It's so obvious....

Month's too long, me thinks.

It's an aggressive move that Disney is doing pretty much the same thing since they don't want to support a dying model and get covid attendance dollars if instead they can push streaming and compete with Netflix which is a HUGE company, not sure some of you realize how much the company is worth. These aggressive pushes are being done because they're already late to the party and want to make sure they stay in the game in the long term.

Man at this point you never have to leave your house ever again. Everything can be done from home now. Why step one foot outside when everything is now available at the click of a button?

Outside? What is this “outside?”

It's where you go to get vitamin Dnowait. Wait. Yeah you can order that too. Nevermind.

I'm never going to leave my house again at this point. Finally the days of being a shut-in have paid off wonderfully. Time to never leave the four walls and only interact through digitally interfaces.

I'd say that people would still need to leave the house to ever successfully have sex or even just attract a woman, but f*ck, look at the group of people I'm talking to. The closest they'd ever get to attracting a mate would be "roofie-ing the Door Dash lady" so of course they've got no interest in a social life.

Wow. I mean, holy $hit. And wow again. :teek: :tlol: :teek: :tlol:

The secret to attracting the opposite sex (or same sex, if you're into that) is to find a significant other BEFORE joining the 'Drome forums. Reverse the order, and all hope is lost.

This.
Or....

Meet a Wiccan and her let her introduce you to her friends.

Indeed.

Every now and then my wife reads something over my shoulder, rolls her eyes and says something to the effect of, "You really need to quit with these (slur against the intellectually-challenged which is no longer socially acceptable)." Literally today, in fact.

Then I remind her that she's a grown-ass woman who willingly engages in conversation with people on fan pages for people like Marilyn Manson and therefore can't really say much about it. And that usually puts the issue to bed at least for a little while.

She's 100% right on principle, though. I just can't stand being told what to do. :lol:

Here's a Trailer with the announcement.

Life always seems to catch up with art.

I'm getting concerned about every DCEU actor aging out of their roles....

The universe is getting rebooted anyway. It's more or less confirmed with Flashpoint. Synder's Justice League mini-series is just the send off to it, not that the actor are going to continue on. Gal Gadot may get a third film but that's it.

The fact that we already have a new Batman movie series coming out says enough in itself.

I am fortunate enough to live in Texas where theaters are open, so I can go see these on the big screen if I want to. However, this really isn't much of a win-win situation. While it is true that theaters will be playing these movies, they will now have to compete with HBO Max to attract audiences into watching Warner Bros. films. Movie theater stocks took quite a plunge today following this news.

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/t...ne-1234845702/

As they should.

Bring back drive-ins

Terrible news for theaters. What a big knife in the back.

AT&T completely ****ed up the rollout of HBO Max and to try and drive growth they rush into a decision that could damage domestic theaters permanently as well as piss off a bunch of actors and directors. It's crazy that Legendary, who co-financed Godzilla vs Kong, didn't know about this plan until it was announced today.

Looking at the movie list, I completely forgot there's a new Mortal Kombat movie reboot coming. Are we expecting that to be good?

There doesn't seem to be much hype for it, and if it is coming next year it's odd there's no trailer yet.

Variety answered 5 burning questions after today’s news.

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/w...ss-1234845580/

I'm super excited for this news. Good thing they're gonna be in 4K HDR, too, because it's some horseshit that HBO Max didn't launch with that for $15 a month.

Here's what the AT&T boss said about the future of movies.

AT&T Boss John Stankey Says Movie Theaters Will Always “Have A Role In Society”, But Streaming “Horse Left The Barn”

WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar also did a lengthy Q&A.

WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar On How Groundbreaking HBO Max Theatrical Window Strategy Will Optimize Revenues

ETA: Here are a lot reactions to the news.

Hollywood, Theater Owners Sound Off on Warner Bros.’ Bold HBO Max Move: ‘They’re Playing With Fire’

Disney was already going this route but now that AT&T is doing it they won't want to be seen as the weaker streaming service. We'll start getting higher budget movies at Netflix as well since they're going to feel the pressure. In a way studios won't care to make "big hit" blockbusters anymore that need to make millions to break even which has lead to tons of sequels/remakes over the years, we'll see new ideas being made into movies again. This will allow great movies to be greenlit with lower budgets or specific audiences. It's exciting, and to think that if it wasn't for COVID this might've taken a few more years to get there.

Movie theaters have always been a part of my life. My best friends & I live miles away from each other's houses. Cinemas have always been more convenient places to meet. If they all shut down, then we will lose our main meeting places.

Yeah, but half the people here only have "friends" that exist as text on a screen so that's of little consequence to them. The fact that some people aren't total losers makes them feel inadequate and they're excited about everyone being forced down to their level.

"Progress" and all of that nonsense. Anybody who has a life outside their bedroom knows it's lousy, but that's not the bulk of the people here.

Do teens still take people to dates to movie theaters? I always assumed that was a thing that died off after the 90's or early 2000's, and it's just movies/tv shows that still show it as an outdated stereotype of past culture.

:roll::roll::roll:

As someone who used to go to the movies a lot when that was still allowed, I can attest that Yes, teenagers go to the movies as dates, "group parties" and lots of other reasons. Comic book stores would also often rent theaters out to hold parties for their customers when new comic book movies would come out.

Once again, for the hundredth time, people with actual lives who don't live on the internet go to the movies a whole lot. People of all age groups love going to the movies for a dozen different reasons. I know this comes as a shock to some of you who wouldn't know what the sun looks like if Google wasn't full of pictures of it. But it's true. Get over it. Not everyone is a sickly, pasty shut-in who hates people and fears social interaction. Some people are normal, and they like going out.

I didn't know either - not until I saw that list. I will say though that there were some MK short films....sort of hybrid fan films but with a few D-List actors you'd know (like Michael Jai White). They were incredible.....

I'm basically a sickly, pasty shut-in who hates people and fears social interaction.

However, I do like going out to places, and I do prefer movie theaters to watching movies on a crappy laptop or phone screen.

Attendance to movie theaters has been down since the year 2001 yoy. They make up for it by having higher prices.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...VbEyw&usqp=CAU

Data doesn't lie, at&t and disney wouldn't be doing it if they had s business model that still worked.

It's kinda funny it declined so much even in the early 2000's, since online streaming wasn't much a thing yet. And it really wasn't until the early/mid 2010's where online streaming even became readily available for most people rather than a few.

Also what's with the huge dip in 2005? Star Wars Episode 3 came out that year as well as Batman Begins, you'd think that would have been a huge year.

It's not a coincidence that DVDs became huge at that same time.

Can you name other big movies from that year, off the top of your head?

Everytime Cubed posts I just know he has never interacted with a woman in person. He probably repels them or something :lol:

Not off the top of my head but here's rotten's top movies of 2005:

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt/?year=2005

Also 2005 is the year youtube came out, but I don't think anyone even knew the potential youtube had back then.

I swear, if Knew now I would have become a youtuber back in 2005 and I'd be a millionaire by now. I was born in the wrong generation, instead of posting on forums I could have ranted on youtube everyday for 15 years and made millions.