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The Paramount Consent Decrees are Dead
Posted on 8/7/20 at 3:40 pm
Posted on 8/7/20 at 3:40 pm
Hollywood Reporter: Judge Agrees to End Paramount Consent Decrees
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"Given this changing marketplace, the Court finds that it is unlikely that the remaining Defendants would collude to once again limit their film distribution to a select group of theaters in the absence of the Decrees and, finds, therefore, that termination is in the public interest,"
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"In today’s landscape, although there may be some geographic areas with only a single one-screen theater, most markets have multiple movie theaters with multiple screens simultaneously showing multiple movies from multiple distributors," states the order. "There also are many other movie distribution platforms, like television, the internet and DVDs, that did not exist in the 1930s and 40s. Given these significant changes in the market, there is less danger that a block booking licensing agreement would create a barrier to entry that would foreclose independent movie distributors from sufficient access to the market."
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Posted on 8/7/20 at 4:27 pm to Fewer Kilometers
This could save theaters and chains.
Posted on 8/7/20 at 5:04 pm to Fewer Kilometers
Those $8 raisins are coming back to bite them in the arse
Posted on 8/7/20 at 5:50 pm to udtiger
Not sure how you’d conclude that. If anything, this makes it more likely that Disney sweeps up their own theater chain to show their content exclusively. I guess that’s technically “preserving” the theater, but it’ll look far different from today. The days of the independent theater owner might be done; all hail the corporate takeover 
Posted on 8/7/20 at 6:05 pm to udtiger
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This could save theaters and chains.
In the sense that they could be absorbed, or unofficially absorbed by making "exclusive" booking deals with one studio.
It could prevent the small indie theaters from booking the profitable small movies from those pseudo independent studios (fox searchlight, focus, Sony picture classics), in that Disney could force the theater to take a package deal if they want the searchlight pic.
I'm not saying any of this will happen, but it now certainly could. There's a reason pay for play has been banned or outlawed in various cities/states in many other industries.
Posted on 8/7/20 at 6:09 pm to funnystuff
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likely that Disney sweeps up their own theater chain to show their content exclusively
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The days of the independent theater owner might be done
Your guesses don’t jive. If Disney only shows their own content, you would have to have independent theaters to show everything else.
Posted on 8/7/20 at 8:15 pm to Jay Are
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In the sense that they could be absorbed, or unofficially absorbed by making "exclusive" booking deals with one studio.
It could prevent the small indie theaters from booking the profitable small movies from those pseudo independent studios (fox searchlight, focus, Sony picture classics), in that Disney could force the theater to take a package deal if they want the searchlight pic.
I'm not saying any of this will happen, but it now certainly could. There's a reason pay for play has been banned or outlawed in various cities/states in many other industries
These studios are savvy enough to toss bones out to avoid anti-trust issues.
Hell, Netflix and Amazon would be smart to tie in with the indie/craft house screens.
Posted on 8/8/20 at 10:33 am to Jay Are
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that Disney could force the theater to take a package deal
They’ve been doing that for years, but not for the small budget movies, they do it for their blockbusters - you want Endgame and Lion King? Then you need to give Dumbo and Maleficent 2 this many screens for this long. They know certain movies are going to pack theaters. They aren’t sure about their medium level blockbusters so they bundle them a la cable companies.
Posted on 8/8/20 at 11:27 am to Fewer Kilometers
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Your guesses don’t jive. If Disney only shows their own content, you would have to have independent theaters to show everything else.
Disney owns a bunch of the content that would be shown by smaller theaters. Very few multiplexes screened A Hidden Life or The Aftermath last year. Very few screened Jojo Rabbit until it got a Best Picture nominations. These are movies with big name directors or stars that small theaters show because they bring in the big crowds (relative to the theater), even though they aren't profitable in wide release. Disney owns those movies because they own Fox Searchlight. Unless Disney feels a movie is a legit Oscar contender, they might not feel the need to put their smaller movies in their own theaters, instead opting to put things straight to Disney plus.
Posted on 8/8/20 at 4:03 pm to Jay Are
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Disney owns a bunch of the content that would be shown by smaller theaters. Very few multiplexes screened A Hidden Life or The Aftermath last year. Very few screened Jojo Rabbit until it got a Best Picture nominations. These are movies with big name directors or stars that small theaters show because they bring in the big crowds (relative to the theater), even though they aren't profitable in wide release. Disney owns those movies because they own Fox Searchlight. Unless Disney feels a movie is a legit Oscar contender, they might not feel the need to put their smaller movies in their own theaters, instead opting to put things straight to Disney plus.
In 2019, Disney/20th/Searchlight released 36 films combined.
Lionsgate released 36, Sony/Sony Classics combined 31, Universal 29, IFC 26, Vertical Entertainment 24, WB 22, Gravitas 20, Parmamount 17, A24 15... and on and on down through the small studios.
Disney could put all of their blockbusters and indie movies on Disney+ and there would still be room for WB and Sony to have theater chains, or Sony to team up with Paramount, and so on. There aren't many small, non-chain theaters left anyway. They might not get Disney scraps but they'll get scraps from someone if they can stay in business.
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