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Now now General less of that unmerriment.:nono:

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Not sure if said already but this has now made for a cracking 2021. Movie congestion, great for the consumer, likely terrible for the studio. :D

If I was running Cinema chains, I'd be getting some promotions on the go in anticipation, although a Cinema sub/pass doesn't seem like a bad shout for 2021.

I do wonder if we'll see even more reshuffling, less to covid but more for the congestion it's causing.

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There is no way next year's current schedule is going to stick. There are going to be further delays and i think next year's schedule is going to end up being this year's schedule.

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I think there may end up being some films that drop from cinema releases to premium VOD rentals.

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I hope so because continuous delays will only work for so long and can't be done indefinitely. You can only build up so much of a back log before the release schedule becomes unviable. Some people like me/your die hard movie fans will go to the cinema every week if they pushed a blockbuster out every week due to this year's delays however the majority of people haven't got the time and/or money. Even if you release 4 massive films in a month, Joe Bloggs will only want to see one and the other three will lose out. So either way things aren't going to go as hoped for by the studios and if I was Disney for example, I would be looking at next year's schedule and thinking about which movies (Disney and MCU) I want to release at the cinema and what might be better as pay per view.

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I'm a die hard cinema goer too. I've had my Unlimited card since 2008. I was last at Cineworld the day they closed to see Akira 4k. I've been gutted at all the delays. I, when working would go on my days off to see a couple of films and since stopped working I used to go a couple of days a week.

As well as the massive backlog of movies there is also the effect of people loosing interest in films that should have been out and they were looking forward too. Films like Ghpstbusters Afterlife, it had a trailer and all the toys and merchandise were starting to come out. Now its delayed till next March I think. They will have to try hard to get people back on board as many studies may have already spent their budgets for advertising and merchandise etc.

It looks like Coming 2 America has already been moved to Amazon and so will not probably get its December cinema release. How many other movies will follow a similar route I wonder. Soul is another that is now set for streaming rather than big screen release. I wonder if Disney will do the same with some of the MCU such as Black Widow.

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See here. https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...&postcount=172

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yeah they need to, I can't think of a more important franchise where you need to keep the momentum and excitement going between movies. I know they were probably hoping for $1bn plus for ScarJo's debut but they need to bite the bullet and move on and look forward to next year. You can't have all these years or 2-3 MCU films a year and then nothing all of a sudden.

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See here
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/e...os-1234799523/

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As linked to in the post.

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I think films like Black Widow and No Time to Die will be the last to drop onto VOD. They won't be the films are risk from too many films being out in 2021. Films like Last Night in Soho and Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch will be more at risk from attracting a wider audience than the fanbase already built into those directors' films.

The profits are too much to turn down and it's still not clear how well these movies will do on VOD. Remember one purchase can be shared amongst many (a friendship group of 4/5/6 seeing it pays one time even if it's more than a cinema ticket) and it doesn't generate the same level of buzz and excitement an occasion movie does without that feeling of going somewhere to see it.

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People were surprised that such a big film as Milan ended up streaming on premium VOD. So really anything is possible from Disney at this point.

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Back to the Future is in Odeon cinemas this weekend to celebrate the 35th anniversary. I'll defo be going, I was too young to watch films like this when they were first released so it is great to have the opportunity to see it on the big screen. You should check the listings every week, although I think they could be an awful lot more effort into it, they are also brining other films back like Rocky and Hocus Pocus.

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Cineworld had BTTF a few weeks ago. I've seen it on the big screen a couple of times recently. The 30th and 35th anniversaries. Same with Ghostbusters.

I used to love Cineworld as each month they used to show a series of classic movies. In the last 5 years I saw T2, Blues Brothers, Close Encounters. Blade Runner. From Russia with love. Among others.

I love being able to see films i was too young for on the big screen.

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Me too and Odeon are carp at doing that kind of stuff and is what i think they should be moving full steam ahead on now.

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Flipping gutted, Free Guy and Death on the Nile have been pulled from their December release dates. I was looking forward to one good film this year.

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Pulled and no new date. Rather disappointing.

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yeah, this year has been the worst year since in about 30 years for cinema going for me. The only three new films I have been to see are 1917 (which was only for the Oscars), Onward and Tenet. I have also been to see Jurassic Park, Back to the Future and Tenet. The last time I went to the cinema 6 times in a year must have been when I was 10 or younger. The sad thing is that I think this is going to roll well into next year and I don't see how the studios can keep pushing back films because as we have discussed previously, there are only so many new films you can push out in a given time period which people will go and see. Disney might want to hold onto the MCU films for massive releases at the cinema but I think they should take a serious look at putting Death on the Nile on Disney+. MGM even shopped No Time To Die for streaming but nobody wanted to cough up $600m for it.

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The cinemas will go bust too if there are no films till March or so.

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I can see the lockdown lasting 12 weeks until the end of January.

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I haven't seen Tom and Jerry since i was about 8. Me and my sister loved it along with Whacky Races, Road Runner etc.

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I watched that earlier and I really don't know what to think of it. I'm hoping it's good.

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Wonder Woman 1984 international release December 16th, 9 days before the US.

https://www.polygon.com/2020/11/18/2...s-2020-hbo-max

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I saw that but I can't see us getting it over here. I can't tell you how much I would love to see this at the cinema with a midnight premiere but I think the lockdown is going to be extended in all but name until after xmas. It needs to in order to get the infection rate and deaths down as much as much if they are to allow social mixing for x amount of days over xmas.

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Unless you are in the favoured south, cinemas are still not going to be open.

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Yeah i know, we're screwed

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It's not clear what cinemas will be open down here. Hopefully Curzon will be.

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I'll be happy with any variation of Dax.

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Closed.

This is redundant now its 2021, and we have this ;
https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...php?t=33709603