This "tentpole or bust" business model that major studios have been employing is just going to be a riskier gamble each year with increasing media consumption at home and online coupled with increasing ticket and concession prices at Theaters.
Of course, the quality of the product is a major factor as well. But before, they only had to contend with newspaper critics before the fact and word-of-mouth after the fact.
Not today, where everyone is a critic with social media. If you put out a stinker, more people are going to know and fast.
Pressure to sell tickets is higher than ever. Then, why not just lower that pressure?
Why pay so much for distribution through Theaters when people aren't going to Theaters as much?
Wouldn't it be smarter to cut the middle man out?
How much money would Studios save by just releasing films through on-demand or streaming services?
Heck, how much more money would they make by even creating their own apps that allow you to rent new releases with an in-app purchase?
How much ad revenue would they get from these new releases at home or online? It would be like a mini-superbowl everytime they release a new anticipated movie.
I'm not saying death to Theaters all together. People are going to still want to go the Theaters for some movies and should. But, they also should have the choice in this day in age.
I don't know why people aren't talking more about "Bright" on Netflix. Isn't this the first of its kind? A seemingly big budget blockbuster exclusively on a streaming service?
If it's a huge success, that could be a big shock to the movie industry. More so to Theaters than Studios, though.
Anyways, I'm sure smarter people than me have already thought of this. Isn't Disney creating its own app for streaming of their older movies? Maybe they won't be streaming just their old movies in the near future.
Submitted September 09, 2017 at 07:05AM by justbringitbitch http://ift.tt/2wgjvsn
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