“Watch Man of Tomorrow and the Batman Part II (exclusively streaming on Netflix)”* *limited 100 theater release for 1 week
I mean, I think the DC movies are safe, lol. At least for now, as long as they make money. Netflix won’t be incentivized to shutter that part of WB. The bigger concerns are like… are fewer movies total going to be made? Are smaller films going to more often be put in the Netflix bucket instead of given a theatrical window? Will things like Sinners not get a chance to become what that became? Will everything that’s not a big IP lose out on physical media releases (even more quickly than it already happens)?
nothing consumer friendly about charging your audience as much or more than the price of a movie ticket to sit through a new release in inferior quality with the possibility of mid-movie ads. fuck Sarandos
One of the very bad reverberations of it for dorks like me is the fact that a lot of the WB archive that has not been released on disc will probably never see a transfer now.
yeah, unless they licensed stuff out to Arrow, Criterion, or Shout & the like, they're definitely only reserving disc for their top priority titles, and even then, i'm skeptical. the only "plus" i could see for physical media would be Netflix using WB's physical arm to put a few of their shows/films on disc, but i think that's a super slim likelihood when they've prioritized that monthly paywall above all else.
Nothing good is going to come of this only bad. Netflix wants you using their streaming services. That’s the only thing they care about.
“Netflix will launch every WB movie currently ‘planned’ for theaters as intended, but expects shorter windows before streaming in future “to meet the audience where they are, quicker’” https://www.ign.com/articles/netflix-will-launch-every-warner-bros-movie-currently-planned-for-theaters-as-intended-but-expects-shorter-windows-before-streaming-in-future-to-meet-the-audience-where-they-are-quicker
i also wouldn't be surprised if this incentivizes other studios to shorten their theatrical windows even more than they already are. disastrous all around.
don't wanna jinx it, but they set a precedent with password sharing crackdowns, so i'm not ruling it out
I was talking to someone yesterday who said how much they missed theaters, as if they don't exist anymore. Between food delivery apps and work-from-home and streaming it seems like people would rather never leave their house.
Yeah, the amount of people I’ve argued with about theaters who say all the usual things I’ve listed before (I can pause it/Don’t have to deal with people/Concessions are expensive) is too many to list. They’d also basically be glorified shut-ins, if they didn’t have a job to go to.