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Black Widow Level 10 Posts: 425	WarnerMedia's 2021 films are going on HBO Max & theaters Dec 4, 2020 4:05:34 GMT Jemma Simmons and haxemon like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Black Widow on Dec 4, 2020 4:05:34 GMT Source

Jemma Simmons Director Posts: 2,187	WarnerMedia's 2021 films are going on HBO Max & theaters Dec 4, 2020 10:29:45 GMT Black Widow and haxemon like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Jemma Simmons on Dec 4, 2020 10:29:45 GMT That’s awesome! I saw that WW was doing this, but good to know they are also going to do this with other movies, too!

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WarnerMedia's 2021 films are going on HBO Max & theaters Dec 4, 2020 15:17:20 GMT Jemma Simmons and Black Widow like this

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Post by haxemon on Dec 4, 2020 15:17:20 GMT

As a Canadian, this isn't really exciting since it seems like Crave (which picks up some HBO stuff) won't be part of this.

However I do agree with how someone put it this morning: "The pandemic basically just accelerated what was happening anyway (by a lot). I don't want to minimize the impact on people who work in movie theatres - this will hit hard - but theatres will adapt like all industries do and there are still huge numbers of people that will demand to see blockbusters or other films in a packed theatre with other fans and a huge screen."

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WarnerMedia's 2021 films are going on HBO Max & theaters Dec 5, 2020 20:05:21 GMT Jemma Simmons and haxemon like this

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Post by Black Widow on Dec 5, 2020 20:05:21 GMT

Dec 4, 2020 15:17:20 GMT haxemon said:

As someone who use to work in the theater industry, it will suck for those who are ushers, concession workers, and projectionist. Execs will be fine, but the workers in the theaters themselves will be laid off or furloughed. I think the independent theaters and those owned by mom and pops will do fine since they have more control of theaters. I think that Rocky Horror Picture Show will always be on the big screen. But the AMCs, Regals, and the ArcLight Theaters will be the ones who will be thee most effected since those are big corp-runned theaters.

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WarnerMedia's 2021 films are going on HBO Max & theaters Dec 6, 2020 16:11:01 GMT Jemma Simmons and Black Widow like this

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Post by haxemon on Dec 6, 2020 16:11:01 GMT

Dec 5, 2020 20:05:21 GMT Black Widow said:

I'm definitely not trying minimize the impact on a lot of people. I actually do think there will be impact on execs too since many multi-plexes are too big for the future of the industry. So either many will close outright or big ones will close and the same chain will open a smaller one. (So maybe execs can tap-dance their way through that unscathed for the most part?)

Anyway, I don't think this was caused by COVID as much as COVID accelerated things (by a lot).

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