Bond 25-Daniel Craig Steps Down As Bond

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

Movie pushed back to November due to Coronavirus concerns

https://www.empireonline.com/movies/...navirus-fears/

Shesus, NINE MONTHS? That's some pushback.

[oldmanwinters]

Maybe we should all just take a summer break from movies.

[oldmanwinters]

Politics have entered the Brawl!
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...180155292.html

[ZariusTwo]

[ZariusTwo]

[ZariusTwo]

And now it's been pushed back to April of 2021

https://deadline.com/2020/10/no-time...21-1234590519/

[ranger_scout]

‘No Time to Die’ Delay Spells Disaster for Struggling Movie Theaters

[Sumac]

Guess, it is time to die for movie theatres.

[CyberCubed]

Why can't they just do digital rentals. I mean it's not that complicated. We're in 2020 not 1999, everyone has streaming online media now.

[Leo656]

1. No they don't. Some people live in areas with bad service.

2. No money in it, thanks to people like... I'unno... you.

[Andrew NDB]

Outrageous. "We don't trust theaters to keep clean and safe for the people willing to go to the movies so we'd rather wait and release the movie when there won't be any."

[Leo656]

I admit, I'm morbidly curious to see how the film and TV industries adapt to the fact that the movie theater industry is going to go extinct thanks to COVID.

Like, how are they going to even be able to make films at all when the streaming model 100% guarantees that they won't see a nickel of profit? Obviously blockbusters and super-hero flicks will be hit the hardest, but I just don't see any way at all they can manage to create Very Expensive Content without any money coming in.

I guess rampant product placement and sponsorship is one way to go. Every movie will be branded with a corporate sponsor like a WWE event. Like it'll be "Spider-Man 3, Brought To You By Arby's and Mountain Dew" or something, instead of just "Spider-Man 3".

I'm serious, how the hell are studios going to make films with absolutely zero chance of profit? People don't pay for streaming, they steal it. Not even a modestly-priced movie has any chance of making its budget back on streaming alone, to say nothing of actually turning a profit, that's simply impossible.

This is a real fix. I think "movies" as a thing might just be going away for a while.

[Sumac]

Maybe it is finally a crisis which will destroy multi-million dollar blockbuster industry and movies will become smaller, with better plot and acting?

Who am I kidding, they will become smaller, but will still have mediocre stories and acting. Just without super expensive CGI.

[Hamato Yoshi]

Imo , corona will go away by late next yr and back to normal

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by Hamato Yoshi

Imo , corona will go away by late next yr and back to normal

To quote Ultron: You're unbearably naïve.

There is no 'normal' anymore.

[Andrew NDB]

I'm not saying anything new, but it's well past time to treat Coronavirus as if it may be around forever. It might.

All these movie delays into the next year... what are they thinking? That after all of the theaters are forced to shut down for good, everyone is going to open up new ones when Bond and Black Widow come out? These new theaters will just be trusting that this will never happen again and this was a one off thing? There's no way.

[Hamato Yoshi]

We will see next yr or early '22 , naive thinking or not

[ZariusTwo]

Bond's delay was the last straw for Cineworld, they're shutting down for the rest of the year

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-54407213

[sdp]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Why can't they just do digital rentals. I mean it's not that complicated. We're in 2020 not 1999, everyone has streaming online media now.

Same as the music industry before, they don't want to trade physical dollars for digital pennies. Some studios have been experimenting as we saw with Trolls and Scoob but they aren't ready to make a commitment. It's inevitable movie theaters as we know them was a dying industry, COVID has only accelerated what the trend seemed to be showing, making more money did not mean more people were going to theaters.

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

I'm not saying anything new, but it's well past time to treat Coronavirus as if it may be around forever. It might.

All these movie delays into the next year... what are they thinking? That after all of the theaters are forced to shut down for good, everyone is going to open up new ones when Bond and Black Widow come out? These new theaters will just be trusting that this will never happen again and this was a one off thing? There's no way.

Movie studios don't care about movie theaters, they'll release their films when they see they can make back their investments. New movie theaters will open because there's a market and if there's money to be made someone will get into that market.
Clearly people aren't interested in going to the movies, I sure am not. You might be but there's not enough Andrews in the world for movie companies to care.

[ZariusTwo]

The pre-titles will focus exclusively on Madeline Swann, unless you count the gunbarrel, Bond won't be seen until after the titles, a first for the series

https://www.joblo.com/movie-news/no-...-opening-scene