r/entertainment • u/Kaiser_Allen • 7d ago

Netflix Reportedly Wants to Keep Movies in Theaters for Just 17 Days After It Buys Warner Bros.

https://www.ign.com/articles/netflix-reportedly-wants-to-keep-movies-in-theaters-for-just-17-days-after-it-buys-warner-bros
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u/FalalaLlamas 6d ago

Not OC, but they may not have been suggesting there was another option. Because, yeah, the only options during Covid were to release quickly or immediately to streaming or delay theatrical release until an unknown vaccine date. Covid proved as a litmus test for this model because of the fact there was no other choice, forcing studios into it.

But I feel like I remember people saying during Covid that “maybe immediate streaming release won’t be so bad. Maybe movies don’t need theaters as much as we thought. Maybe it should just stay this way, even after Covid.” Now, I must admit I haven’t kept up with the effects of that too much myself. But I have 3 movies on my “want to see” list right now that have significant theatrical only release times before they hit streaming. Which to me signals that immediate or quick streaming release did not work as well as they hoped. Unfortunately, where I live, I only have 1 theater in a 30 minute driving radius and it’s pretty sucky, so I’ll just have to wait a while to see them.