re: Warner Bros. will release its entire 2021 film slate on HBO Max concurrent with theaters

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No question. I suspect we can all look forward to ‘mini-Disneylands’ in just about every city in the country in the next 10 years. They’ll buy up the megaplexes they ran into bankruptcy on the cheap, put 4DX in a couple screens, gut a couple more to build play areas, have Mickey, Mini and crew ready to welcome families at the door, and send all of their programming, series and movies alike, direct to these little mini Disney lands at significant price markups. And we can all thank the DOJ for failing to renew the Paramount Consent Decrees

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They tried Disney Live Experiences before, but they did it all wrong. They should target mid sized cities and make them basically like a Dave and Busters, but all the games and prizes are themed with Disney properties. The restaurant(s) at each location should be uniquely themed with Disney and have some relevance to the area (If you have one in a coastal city, it’s got a little mermaid or Nemo theme). Host parties there. Test new menu items. Do autograph signings. If you build them right, you can have decent sized screening rooms (40-60 seats) and can bring kids in from charities to see your newest movies or host sneak peeks or hell even test screenings. Make them 4D theaters so the next Pixar movie that comes out has something unique for those locations you run.

But for the love of god, stop putting them in urban downtown centers like Chicago and Los Angeles. Put them in the suburbs where they belong. There are a whole shitload of empty Sears and KMarts out there, convert them. Build out in new developments. Avoid culture at all costs and you will print money.

Can’t wait to see them pop up on IPT.

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If you’ve watched Mulan already you dropped $30.

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I haven't watched Mulan as it never interested me. Plus I'd never drop $30 on a movie.

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I don’t care what it costs for a family of four, because I go to the movies by myself.

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That's great. Too bad you're not the only human on planet earth.

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If you want it to be cheaper then stop buying all the concessions and then little Johnny won’t have to piss during the movie.

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Now I know why you go to the movies by yourself.

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Pausing a movie 2-3 times at home just takes you out of it. Too many distractions at home.

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I have ADHD and have no problem pausing the movie multiple times to go to the bathroom or grabbing a bite to eat or something to drink.

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including 'The Matrix 4,' ... and 'Dune'

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Imagine AMC, Cinemark, and Regal right now. Your business has been destroyed by lockdowns, and by the time people have been vaccinated and are ready to watch movies again...they'll be able to just stream all the new movies from home anyway.

If these chains don't go out of business completely, they're certainly going to close a significant amount of theaters. They will never again match the kind of revenue they were experiencing before the pandemic.

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They need to adapt and overcome, or die

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Following 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. According to an insider with knowledge of the situation who spoke to Vulture on condition of anonymity, top brass at Village Roadshow, the company making The Matrix 4, and Legendary Pictures, the company producing Godzilla vs. Kong, were neither consulted nor warned of the studio’s impending distribution upheaval. And they were shocked to discover their tentpole releases were going day and date by reading about it in news reports.

Likewise, many filmmakers with movies in Warner Bros.’ “coming attractions” queue were caught off guard by reading the news. “HOLY shite,” one texted to his equally flabbergasted agent. “This is ridiculous that they wouldn’t even make one phone call,” another said in a message to an executive at a rival studio. “They didn’t even try to reach out. And they just assume that we would go along with this.”

Across the entertainment diaspora, you could feel a shock of realization that the industry’s long-standing “window” — of at least 70 days between when a movie first appears on the big screen and its migration toward at-home consumption — had been forever smashed. Jason Kilar, the chief executive of Warner Bros. parent company WarnerMedia, attempted to downplay the day-and-date shift’s halo effect on the movie biz, casting it more reductively as “the best way for WarnerMedia’s motion picture business to navigate the next 12 months” in a statement. But the Hollywood hand-wringing had already begun. “[Kilar] said, ‘This is just a one-year thing and we’re going to go back next year,’” a senior executive at another studio says. “And it’s like, ‘Are you kidding me? You’re changing the whole dynamic. It’s going to screw up everything. You just screwed up the film business.’”

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Those filmmakers they quote is likely Matt Reeves or James Gunn.

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think you've revealed why they're not in the suburbs. If a smaller city can't support a Kmart,

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Well no cities are supporting Kmart so i’m not sure if you fully grasped my point.

I’m talking about them going to metro areas outside of the top 25. Go to places like Charleston, Virginia Beach, Tulsa, Hartford, Dayton, Omaha, etc. cities that don’t have major sports teams but support the hell out of minor league teams because they have frick all else to go to.

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Dune’ Producer Legendary Entertainment May Sue Warner Bros. Over HBO Max Deal

Legendary Entertainment, the production company that co-financed “Dune” and “Godzilla vs. Kong,” may take legal action against Warner Bros. over the studio’s decision to send its movies to HBO Max at the same time they debut in cinemas.

Legendary financed a significant portion of “Dune,” which cost roughly $175 million, and “Godzilla vs. Kong,” which carries a price tag around $160 million. Yet the company was largely kept out of the loop that their films would be included in Warner Bros.’ plan to send 17 films — its entire 2021 slate — to the subscription streaming service and any open movie theaters.

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