Seems Hollywood is up in arms about this deal…no more movie releases in theaters, just streaming?
Ironically the other day I passed an empty box that had contained 75” flat screen television at a modest priced apartment complex. The owner will no longer need to the expensive movie outing experience mixing with unknown strangers and leaving home.
Slowly but surely the norm is being revamped.
I suppose in anticipation of the negative response, Netflix is releasing a movie for a limited run in theaters. Ummmm
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oh no
I still like going out to the cinema
The problem is not the venue. The venue is great.
The problem is the writing and the films.
Netflix is crap. we all know this.
I saw I was able to see past purchase history on Fandango for movie tickets.
In the average year we go out a maximum of 2 times to the cinema. Its usually just once or twice.
Because that’s how often something truly good comes out these days.
Sad. Hope this doesn’t mean anything for big screen releases.
Does not bode well for the further eroding of plot writing.
Edit to say your title is a misleading one. This deal has not gone through it is merely being worked on.
Also, your article you linked is not about this deal its about a film.
Here is an article on the actual deal you mention:
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I’ve read other articles about the “possible acquisition” regarding the controversy, the main one being Netflix does not release their products into the conventional theater circuit to view, only for streaming, which would result in a major impact to the motion picture industry employees if that process was to continue after the buyout. The advertising of a future release in March was in my opinion, to counter the opposition to the merger as it was a first for Netflix.
Another angle would be promoting the merger as part of reducing the “carbon footprint’ hysteria.
That makes sense.
The real problem here is yeah a lot of good writers moved to television, then to netflix. but a lot of netflix is so terrible you can tell the caliber of writing is not pushed for, it’s more quantity over quality. IE not worth wasting time
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… Karma … they did it to themselves … no sympathy whatsoever … plenty of books I need to read anyway and past great films that I haven’t seen … the only thing that would make this better is if “Hollyweird” declared that they will be doing all future projects with virtual actors. No need for “agents”, no need to pay great sums for “acting” and you don’t have to worry about them going on social media and saying or doing something that torpedos a 200 million dollar investment.
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Yeah, CGI is the perfect business model to totally control the narrative and expenses. Motion pictures made the live, expensive and elitist theatre experience available to the masses as well as an innovative propaganda tool. The simulacra of motion pictures goes to the next rung with CGI.
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