AMC Cinemas vs Universal Pictures - Future films banned after release of Trolls 2 on VOD?

ianh said:
The average UK cinema ticket price last year was £7.11 (call it £7 for cash) so for a family of 4 going to watch a movie it's already £30, then add snacks/drinks etc and you're upto £50. With that mindset a £16 rental looks way more attractive to at least 75% of current cinema goers but, as I mentioned above, its understandably a "high" cost to rent if you're a single viewer.
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A family trip to the cinema is an experience watching a movie at home is just the same old same old of course going out has a premium! I can cook dinner at home for much less than a meal out yet I still go out!
 
Undoubtedly things are going to change after everything is said and done. VOD is going to to be the new norm and as @OspreyO says i think cinema is going to change to being the premium experience for only huge blockbuster movies and real movie fans
 
ergonomics said:
Curzon cinemas have already been through this. They release their films on curzon home cinema at the same time as actual cinemas. Because of this, their films are boycotted by all major cinema chains.. vue, odeon, cineworld.. even picturehouse. They want to have exclusivity to show the film and be the only source to see it for 3 months before a home theatre release. That "window" is something cinema chains are brutal about holding on to because without it, they will lose money. Trolls didn't do as well as Universal expected it to with a full cinema release and 3 months digital window.. but it did better than they thought when they removed the cinema release numbers. So it goes to show that they won't make as much money as a studio doing that release strategy, cinema chains wont earn as much money because they will lose customers.. but the consumer wins. Accessibility is up. Families will save money (£20 per digital download vs £50 for a family of 4 to go to the cinema). and realistically, it is the future.
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It should be remembered that the $100m is all Universal’s. No cut for anyone else. The film would have needed to make somewhere over $250-300m For Universal to make that amount for them. Which it might not have done.
 
a1ex2001 said:
I can cook dinner at home for much less than a meal out yet I still go out!
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Good comparison :)

OspreyO said:
Cinema need to specialize in showing films for movies fans. Old classics and themes of movies like 70 scfi, etc.
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These events already happen at independent cinemas anyway, but they draw a very specific crowd. Everyone else is happy to watch the dvd at home.
 
Scam said:
Well yes, London innit. Yet Trolls is only £16 to rent so if you're a family of 3 it's exactly the same price as the cinema. Better even, minus the travel costs and snacks etc. Yet people still balk at it for some reason.

Studios can't win. Everyone says they'd be willing to pay for day and date releases at home yet as soon as it happens everyone is like "wah too expensive!!1"
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It's more that a normal rental (albeit a couple of months after cinema release) would be say a fiver for 48 hours. If I'm watching at home there are far less overheads involved.
 
MissChief said:
It should be remembered that the $100m is all Universal’s. No cut for anyone else. The film would have needed to make somewhere over $250-300m For Universal to make that amount for them. Which it might not have done.
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Two things to clarify here -

1. The $100m has been for just the first three week period only when the stories went live, it's still earning money right now.

2. The money isn't all Universals as it still has "distributors" (no idea what they do for PVOD) but the percentage UP keeps is far higher from PVOD vs cinema, around 80% vs the <60% from a cinema release.

All those points are in the news stories I linked to in the OP.
 
I'm doing OK with Netflix, Amazon etc.. in current location with regular BT broadband. Have got FTTP connection in London flat so would be quite happy to have full fat 4k content.

ianh said:
2. The money isn't all Universals as it still has "distributors" (no idea what they do for PVOD) but the percentage UP keeps is far higher from PVOD vs cinema, around 80% vs the <60% from a cinema release.
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Some of them provide the platform presumably? Promote it to their users etc.. Like Apple etc..
 
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