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Mickeroo

New movies available in your home about 60 days after their theatrical release? It could cut down on piracy and downloading if it was reasonably priced I think, but would it signal the end of cinemas then I would definitley not be for it. What ye reckon??


Theatre groups don't seem to happy about it:
http://blog.moviefone.com/2011/05/02/video-on-demand-premium-box-office-theaters/?_r=true

Biggins

Would that be 60 days after a worldwide release? An American release or a more local own nationality one?

Some films here in Ireland are released 6 to 8 months after they have hit the screens in the states. Its some of those films that are leading people not to wait.
Honestly, I've watched films on dvd (bought from the states) that even months later, are just being released in Ireland in the cinemas.
That whole situation needs to be addressed alone.

Mickeroo

Biggins wrote: »

Would that be 60 days after a worldwide release? An American release or a more local own nationality one?

Some films here in Ireland are released 6 to 8 months after they have hit the screens in the states. Its some of those films that are leading people not to wait.
Honestly, I've watched films on dvd (bought from the states) that even months later, are just being released in Ireland in the cinemas.
That whole situation needs to be addressed alone.

True, but most of the bigger movies are released at the same time here as in the states or even released here before the states such as Thor.

Biggins

Mickeroo wrote: »

True, but most of the bigger movies are released at the same time here as in the states or even released here before the states such as Thor.

Yes, some studios have made an effort for some of their films that are more high profile - however there is still a lot of others as you might agree that slip through the cracks.

Mickeroo

Mickeroo wrote: »

True, but most of the bigger movies are released at the same time here as in the states or even released here before the states such as Thor.

We only get films early when it benefits the Studios. We got Thor a week early due to the fact that last weekend was a four day one in the UK. Most times we end up with films months after their US release, Pixar can be horrible for it with up to 6 months seperating US and European releases. It's nowhere near as bad as it used to be where bigish releases such as Hellboy were on DVD for months in the US before playing cinemas over here but there are numerous examples in recent memory, Faster was on DVD and Blu in the US before opening here.

There are two outcomes to the current situation in the US. The theatres go ahead with their boycott and refuse to screen films such as the new Harry Potter film and lose out on a large chunk of change or else a compromise will be reached with theatres getting a larger cut of the first few weeks take.

Over here we have a completely different system with films routinely being on DVD a few weeks after opening in cinemas, the new Sean Bean film is in cinemas on May 25th and on DVD less than a month after. Hell Life DUring Wartime was on SKy boxoffice before it was in cinemas.

Mickeroo

Yea the PIXAR movies are a good example of how not to do it! It was so frustrating to wait it out to see UP in the cinema when I could easily have downloaded it, worth it in the end though.