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Oct 17, 2020 - 1:33 PM
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Solium
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Disney Unveils New Distribution Strategy That Pits Streaming Against Theaters
Kareem Daniel has been at Disney for 14 years. Starting at the company as an intern when he was studying for an MBA at Stanford, Daniel has held various roles at the company, including in studio distribution and Walt Disney Imagineering, where he oversaw the creation of IP-based attractions like Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Notably, he has no experience in streaming or tv.
Here’s why this new unit is significant: the Media and Entertainment Distribution group will decide how the company’s content is distributed across Disney’s streaming services (which include Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+, and its coming Star international streaming service) and legacy platforms, like movie theaters and television. In other words, Disney will no longer specifically create theatrical films; it will simply create films, and then let its new unit decide whether it would be more profitable to release on streaming or in theaters.
Essentially, the reorganization clearly separates distribution from production, streamlining the decisions behind what content goes where. In practice, there will be a new focus on the streamers — especially Disney+, whose growth has been a bright spot for the company in a dark year.
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https://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/disneys-unveils-new-distribution-strategy-that-pits-streaming-against-theaters-197604.html
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Ironically, this thread appears the weekend that Tenet finally opened here in Seattle. I'll go to the cinema to see it - plus Mank and The Godfather Part III reissue if they also open here, but, sad to say, even before the lockdowns and the eminence of streaming, I was "phasing out" new movies; there simply is less and less interest for me in keeping up with the World of Film. A result, I suppose, of having formed an objective/subjective hierarchy of what's good and what's not so good over years and years of viewing thousands of films. It's tough for something new to really "blow me away" - or to even dig a new piece of "fun entertainment." Why should I take the time to gin up enthusiasm for some mediocrity just because it's au courant when I can revisit classics or discover something I haven't seen yet from 1980, 1940, or 2000?
I hope there will be some excellent new films to come - and as a life-long movie theater-goer, I hope that movie houses will still exist. There is always something special about that theater-going experience.
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Mark, very well explained, I agree. The biggest reason I stopped going to the theaters was the same as your reasons, the movies are either re-makes or sequels no one wants. Besides the Marvel Universe or Star Wars franchise, most people are not entertained for their money. And since Disney now owns both, streaming is their choice. I watch the classics either on cable or physical media. Being a 80s child I experienced the last decade of the drive-in movies and when the VCR had taken over, theaters were the beginning of the end. To me the movie theater was not as magical experience as some.
I'm an 1980s person too - the "American New Wave," which had begun in the 1960s, was coming to an end by the beginning of the '80s (Perhaps 1981 was the final year? Movies like Blow Out, Prince of the City, Cutter's Way, S.O.B., They All Laughed, Four Friends, and Buddy Buddy, for good or ill, seem like 1970s films already out of place.) There have been many great films from the 1980s onward and just in the last few years I had some terrific movie-going experiences with movies such as Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Phantom Thread, Roma, The Irishman (although note that those last two are Netflix productions that only briefly played cinemas to qualify for awards), La La Land, Gone Girl and several others, but I'm wondering if there'll be much to impress me in years to come. What sort of visions will future directors have that even match what's come before? I hope there will be some great films this decade, but I'm less willing to be an active participant in movie-going, especially if that phrase may become obsolete.
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Oct 18, 2020 - 7:16 PM
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Solium
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Mark, very well explained, I agree. The biggest reason I stopped going to the theaters was the same as your reasons, the movies are either re-makes or sequels no one wants. Besides the Marvel Universe or Star Wars franchise, most people are not entertained for their money. And since Disney now owns both, streaming is their choice. I watch the classics either on cable or physical media. Being a 80s child I experienced the last decade of the drive-in movies and when the VCR had taken over, theaters were the beginning of the end. To me the movie theater was not as magical experience as some.
I'm an 1980s person too - the "American New Wave," which had begun in the 1960s, was coming to an end by the beginning of the '80s (Perhaps 1981 was the final year? Movies like Blow Out, Prince of the City, Cutter's Way, S.O.B., They All Laughed, Four Friends, and Buddy Buddy, for good or ill, seem like 1970s films already out of place.) There have been many great films from the 1980s onward and just in the last few years I had some terrific movie-going experiences with movies such as Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Phantom Thread, Roma, The Irishman (although note that those last two are Netflix productions that only briefly played cinemas to qualify for awards), La La Land, Gone Girl and several others, but I'm wondering if there'll be much to impress me in years to come. What sort of visions will future directors have that even match what's come before? I hope there will be some great films this decade, but I'm less willing to be an active participant in movie-going, especially if that phrase may become obsolete.
Agreed, I need to spend more time on old classics. Films I love and classics Ive never seen. I watched Jaws for the first time in like 30 years and it blew me away. Every shot was a work of art.
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Oct 19, 2020 - 7:16 AM
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Khan
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Mark, very well explained, I agree. The biggest reason I stopped going to the theaters was the same as your reasons, the movies are either re-makes or sequels no one wants. Besides the Marvel Universe or Star Wars franchise, most people are not entertained for their money. And since Disney now owns both, streaming is their choice. I watch the classics either on cable or physical media. Being a 80s child I experienced the last decade of the drive-in movies and when the VCR had taken over, theaters were the beginning of the end. To me the movie theater was not as magical experience as some.
Why do these "re-makes or sequels no one wants" still make such boffo box office if no one wants them?
2020 is a weird year, but the highest grossing movie is a sequel. Sequels and remakes still populate the top 10.
In 2019, of the top 15 movies, 10 were sequels, 2 were remakes, and 2 were comic book origin movies. Only one of the top 15 was an original idea.
In 2018, of the top 15 movies, 7 were sequels, 2 were remakes, 3 were comic book origin movies, and 1 was a stand alone Star Wars. The other two were original ideas, but one was a biopic.
Those numbers don't look like something "no one wants".
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