Abob Teff

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Originally Posted by DJariya

AMC announced in Twitter that they activated a new pause feature on your account. You have to log in and activate it.

Was poking around and saw this. It is not in the app! It is a 30-day ONE TIME pause that is “irreversible”.

I’m not hitting it yet. A total shutdown is coming. Just sucks that I’m afraid I’ll lose about $50 worth of rewards.

dex14

AMC to close for 6 to 12 weeks
https://deadline.com/2020/03/amc-to-...ns-1202885217/

Abob Teff

Damn ... I’m good?

DJariya

Over Under 75 pct that Black Widow gets pulled before the week is over?

Fuck I feel like we’re living a real life horror movie that won’t end.

dex14

So in 12 weeks, including what’s already been pulled, that would be 7 films by Disney under their multiple banners. It would back just in time for Soul if they’re lucky or don’t swap that with something they already pulled. I think they will starting releasing “FOX” movies via the On Demand route first.

Decker

It does not affect your stubs rewards at all. Here's proof - I just paused my membership this morning. Here is my app tonight


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Dan

Oh, definitely, I think it'll happen.

It's wild.

Regarding the $20 rentals... My initial reaction was that it was absurd, but my wife insists that we should rent Trolls this way when it's out, as my daughter will want to see it and all the cinemas are closed indefinitely anyway.

Regarding cinemas... Man... I just have a terrible feeling about all this. I don't think many one-off art-houses will survive, and I think even the chains (big and small) are in a position to completely fail and not come back. At least... they won't come back in the way we know them to be today. Maybe some places continue to fill their own niche, or maybe their owners decide to end it for good and retire on what they've got.Maybe this is the turning point to end major theatrical distribution in favor of pure home digital distribution of top tier titles... or a point of no return for anything not acquired by Disney or Netflix.

dex14

I think the best approach for Disney would be to open up an additional pay wall within Disney+ and Hulu and offer a discounted rental rate. They can bulk up subscriber numbers and then charge a rental fee for the new releases. So anyone who is a subscriber is paying the subscription fee ($5.99, or whatever the rates are based on level with Hulu) and then charge a discounted rental rate $9.99 - $12.99.
They could charge the regular $19.99 or more rental fee to all those via the regular On Demand route.

Shannon Nutt

$20 is a bargain if you're in NYC or LA, but for most of us it's a premium. I don't have a problem with it, but hope they handle it the way rentals of streaming movies currently are...full price the first two or three weeks, then a discount the longer it has been out.

Artman

AMC closing is the ballgame. The absolute best case is if they open in 8-9 wks in time for Memorial wknd, which Black Widow could move to... do a big promotional push to get the crowds out. More likely.. BW should take an early August spot that MCU's used before with great success. I'm not convinced June/July releases need to move yet... they have some time at least to see how things play out.

DWilson

The local Landmark Theaters in St. Louis are now closed, -I don't know about the entire chain (but probably so).

dex14

The Gentlemen will too.

TheBigDave

The Gentlemen UHD is $14.99 at Vudu
https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/...tlemen/1281737

Bird of Prey UHD is $19.99 with a $3 pre-order credit.
https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/...-Quinn/1356758

d2cheer

That would be zero for me no matter the movie. However the Gentlemen to own at $14.99 is do able.

Abob Teff

^That. No movie is worth a $20 rental in my world. Too many other things available to watch.

Bluelitespecial

I won't get to see Braveheart on the big screen and I have very little faith it'll be rescheduled.

mwbmis

I can't imagine Wonder Woman staying at that spot. Even if (and that's a big IF) things are starting to get back to normal no big tent pole movie will want to be the test case.

fujishig

Deadline just had this article about AMC yesterday (this is all analyst speculation)
https://deadline.com/2020/03/amc-ent...le-1202884288/

dex14

Black Widow postponed: https://variety.com/2020/film/box-of...us-1203532996/

The studio also pulled “The Personal History of David Copperfield,” from its Searchlight banner, and “The Woman in the Window,” a 20th Century title, as well.

Why So Blu?

Pre-ordered the UHD's of both.

DJariya

Cinemark is officially closed now

Another chain here in So. Cal is Krikorian and they have yet to close

dex14

Dan

Any word on Saint Maud? I could see A24 going straight to VOD with that one... But the trailer was getting played regularly at my local Alamo right before all this.

dex14

I was thinking the same thing about that one and think that it should. But I had read something that A24 is committed to theatrical. It’s hard to get the indies in theatres these days and they have a following and do pretty well. They’re going to try and relaunch First Cow later in the year too. We’ll see what happens. Maybe it was just in the case of that film.

tanman

This looks like it will seriously affect the way we see movies from here on out. I don't think it will kill movie theaters overall but you might see some close down locations and the smaller ones going out of business completely. It will also be an experimental time for studios to find out how audiences will take to VOD rentals day and date with theatrical releases. This might finally become the norm after this.

Anyone else think that Peter Rabbit would be a great candidate for release on VOD? Timing of that one seems pretty crucial.