Cinema United Chief Michael O’Leary on Netflix’s ‘Narnia’ Gamble and Why Paramount’s Deal to Buy Warner Bros. Must Fail: ‘Theaters Will Close’
by MrShadowKing2020
Cinema United Chief Michael O’Leary on Netflix’s ‘Narnia’ Gamble and Why Paramount’s Deal to Buy Warner Bros. Must Fail: ‘Theaters Will Close’
by MrShadowKing2020
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Agreed. This was never about saving theaters. It’ one major eating another, and that could be the final blow to an ecosystem forever under siege. Call your Congressmen, day and night. The Trump DOJ ***must*** kill this deal.
Number is (202) 224-3121.
Capitol switchboard. Ask for them by name.
>Across the exhibition industry there was a mantra — “Survive till ’25.” The thought was that with sequels to “Jurassic Park,” “Avatar” and three Marvel movies, ticket sales would rebound. Instead, the box office was flat. Why did theater owners get it wrong?
>I thought that slogan was so problematic that I never actually said it out loud. This industry should not be looking at things in 12-month chunks, but in five-year chunks, because it’s a slow build back to pre-pandemic levels. And when you put so much pressure on the next year and it doesn’t necessarily reach the heights that you had hoped, you’re doing yourself a disservice. What we need to do is keep improving our theaters so we can make this a sustainable business for generations.
Fortunately, it is looking increasingly likely that this year is going to hit 10 billion. If at all this doesn’t get repeated in 2027 and beyond, there shouldn’t be any cause for concern as long as the gross and admission don’t take massive blows.
>At the same time, Apple, which had said it would make a dozen films for theaters, won’t debut anything in cinemas this year.
>That’s my understanding. I think they’re still trying to figure out their moviemaking structure and what it is they want to do. “F1” was incredibly successful. In a perfect world, you’d have two or three of those a year from Apple.
Looks like that Apple is still figuring out their theatrical strategy, especially after they suffered a bad 2024 theatrically, with only one film released since then with F1 and none for 2026 (though I assume that Martin Scorsese’s What Happens at Night will get a wide theatrical release when it comes out in fall 2027).
Well, this company will have a monopoly in box office, but the merge of Netflix & WB would be worse
Then sue them to stop the damn merger!!!!!!!!
I still think with California and a lot of politicians fighting against the merger It might be blocked in the end or the shareholders will say no but as long as the DCU, Dc studio and the Wb animation current and upcoming projects survive and keep going I’ll be happy