Key Points:
- Industry and trade experts say the move could relegate theatricals to a secondary viewing medium and make recovery from the covid-19 pandemic impossible.
- Warner Bros.′ 2021 slate includes many of the expected top movies of the year, including Dune, The Suicide Squad, Tom & Jerry, The Conjuring: The Devil Make Me Do It, King Richard and Judas and the Black Messiah.
- In India, ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ will be out in theatres on December 24.
Warner Bros gave out a shocking news to all theatre owners on Thursday evening after it declared that its ‘2021 slate’ of Movies will all be released in the Theatres as well as on HBO Max on the same time.
I got you something ✨nice✨ this year:
🎁 The biggest movie premieres
🎁 In theaters and on HBO Max the exact same day
🎁 Beginning December 25 with #WonderWoman1984#HBOMax #WBPictureshttps://t.co/QA8MlErRYQ pic.twitter.com/VuYkTa6BGx— Warner Bros. Pictures (@wbpictures) December 3, 2020
The industry and the trade experts are heard saying that the theatre, due to this move, might turn to a secondary viewing medium and make the Covid-19 pandemic’s loss, irrecoverable.
The Warner Bros’ move that was announced later in the evening on Thursday is said to be “a Consumer-Centric Distribution Model” which is “Created as a Strategic Response to the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic. (Especially in the US)”
As cinemas struggle to restart operations despite reopening permits in many parts of the world, that is, if they haven’t have shut shop completely, several media and entertainment industry experts say the Warner move, sounds the death knell of the theatre business, in many ways.
The Movies that a re set to release in the Day-and-Date Model by the Warner Bros are:
Warner Bros. has changed movie-going as we know it with its massive 2021 HBO Max release plans https://t.co/BwEbdMRBdA pic.twitter.com/tk0rOotbmV
— GameSpot (@GameSpot) December 4, 2020
Cry Macho
Dune
Godzilla vs Kong
In the Heights
Judas and the Black Messiah
King Richard
Little Things
Malignant,
Mortal Kombat,
Reminiscence
Space Jam: A New Legacy
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It,
The Many Saints of Newark
The Matrix 4
The Suicide Squad
Those Who Wish Me Dead,
Tom & Jerry,
and
Wonder Woman 1984
HBO Max is currently available only in the United States. In India, it is expected to be available through Amazon’s Fire TV Stick device several months down the line.
Wonder Woman 1984 will be released in cinemas in India on December 24, a day ahead of its US rollout.
This Christmas, Wonder will soar. Don’t miss #WonderWoman1984 in cinemas in India on December 24.#WonderWoman #WW84 #GalGadot pic.twitter.com/cC7towbYXS
— Warner Bros. India (@warnerbrosindia) December 5, 2020
