• MimicJar@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      There was a thread a few weeks ago discussing the decline of theatres. The one, and only, suggestion from theater owners was to have a 90 day minimum theatre time before films moved to streaming/physical media.

      At the time that idea seemed silly to me. Usually if I want to see a film, it’s opening weekend I see it. Maybe the second week, but usually before the second weekend.

      But this film is leaving theaters less than a week after release? I saw Mickey 17 was announced to be leaving before being in theaters for 2 weeks.

      I guess I understand the complaint from theatre owners now. Maybe 90 days is too long but shit you gotta draw a line somewhere. You gotta give films a chance if you want theatres to stay open.

      So many films post pandemic have their “Exclusively in theaters” taglines, but for how long?

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      It was released last Friday in the US, so this would be less than a week in the theaters. It was number 5 or so for the last week as well, so while it wasn’t a monetary success out of the gate it wasn’t like it pulled in zero dollars.

      Heck, word of mouth could have worked in its favor, but guess we will never know. At least it was released instead of thrown in the trash like Coyote vs ACME.

      Fucking Zaslav.

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        I thought this was one of those straight to streaming movies. Had no clue there was gonna be a theatrical release.

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          It was originally produced as a direct to hbo/max movie, then sold to a small distribution company who didn’t do much advertising.

          Max also pulled all the old Looney Tunes shorts from max, because apparently cartoons that were originally aimed at adults in theaters isn’t media for an adult audience that max is going for.

          I think the Warner Bros executives don’t have a sense of humor and therefore hate Looney Tunes.

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    Never heard of it, looked it up and apparently it just came out on the 14th. That’s not even a full week till wednesday.