Odeon not screening Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland

Disney told the BBC that one of the main reasons for the decision was to bring the film to customers more quickly, thereby helping to beat piracy.
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That just means that the good quality DVDrip versions will be available quicker too...
 
Fenris said:
Well yes that would make sense but your not going to the cinema to watch it on some 32" Panasonic with integrated speakers are you? Your paying for the experience and the quality.
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well you certainly arent paying for comfort.

i'd rather sit at home with a nice takeaway that costs less than the sweets/bevarages of a cinema, the bluray costs less than the price of the tickets etc.

cinemas might be ok if your single or a dating couple but if you have 2adults+2kids etc then the cost just gets ridiculous
 
If they reduce the time then DVD-rips will be online sooner but if they leave the time as now then R5-rips will be available before they put out a DVD so there is no win from the piracy angle.
Personally, I can't get excited either way. Although I understand the financial pressures on cinemas they are ludicrously expensive. The only time I go now is when I take my son to the £1 a ticket Kids Club showing. Other than that I pay for Sky Movies which is cheaper than one trip a month to the cinema.
 
arknor said:
well you certainly arent paying for comfort.

i'd rather sit at home with a nice takeaway that costs less than the sweets/bevarages of a cinema, the bluray costs less than the price of the tickets etc.

cinemas might be ok if your single or a dating couple but if you have 2adults+2kids etc then the cost just gets ridiculous
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I take my own sweets and beverage to cinema usually I paid for a ticket (not cheap) and have to sit through 15 minutes of adverts why should I pay over the odds for food as well.

That's one thing about the cinema I hate.

Dunno if you get it here but in Belgium they say 8:30 and the film doesn't start until 8:50.

Next time you get wise and arrive at 8:45 to find you've missed the first 10 minutes of the film :( no rhyme or reason to the amount of ads.

As for the OP well I think it wouldn't harm the large chains so much as the smaller local cinemas which have to wait until the reel has been discarded by the cinema chains before they get to run it. Probably coinciding with DVD release.

Funny thing is that sometimes I'm in the UK and can buy a DVD before the film is even released here in Belgium. Piracy doesn't stop this since the DVD is usually already released stateside well before the film has finished it's run in Europe, so reducing the lead time won't help at all.
 
jamie2497 said:
Cinemas are a joke to begin with. Take 2 adult tickets, factor in some popcorn and you have the price of the film on blu-ray twice over.
Fact is after 5-6 weeks the showing times for films reduce to about one showing a day so the quicker they get it to DVD the better it is for everyone.
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Cineworld Unlimited Card - £13.50 per month for as much cinema as I like.
"Cinema Popcorn" - £1 for largeish bag, Tesco
500ml Coke Zero - 80p (Tesco, 2 for £1.60)
 
I have no problems with disneys stance..17 weeks seem an awfully long time


surely after 3 months everybody who wanted to see it will have seen it, so 12 weeks seems fine for me
 
probedb said:
Minimum term of 12 months as far as I'm aware.
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Indeed.
But still a bargain.
Make 4 trips to the cinema in a month (very possible) and it's less than £3.40 each time.
Add in popcorn and drinks from Tesco next door and it costs me and the wife (on average) less than £10 to go and see a film.
 
It said if a cinema stopped showing a film before the 17-week exclusivity period, the audience did not have a legitimate way to see the movie - potentially leading to piracy.
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This comment is a bit silly really, so the way to get people to watch the movie in a legitimate way is to not show it at all? Way to go there Disney! I can only see this movie getting pirated more because of this stance.

To ^Tank^ not everyone has a Cineworld just around the corner.
 
Camalot said:
I really dont think there is a film worth watching every week of the month for 12 months!
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You'd be surprised.
This is the beauty of unlimited cinema - you can go and see things you might not have bothered with.
Yes you are paying £13.50 a month - look at that as your cinema subscription.
You then get into the mindset that each film you go to see isn't costing you anything (look at it like one of these DVD via the mail rental places).

You can go and see any film you like, even if it isn't mainstream, even if it doesn't have explosions in.
I promise that when you can see what you like and when you like you don't just stick to the crop of Hollywood rubbish and actually broaden your cinema film experience.
 
Spawn said:
Good move at least they saw sense...they would have lost a shedload of money if they decided to go through with their boycott of the movie.
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They would have lost a "shedload" now but not down the line. The precedence a move like this would set could result in the closing of many cinemas. If the studios can reduce release times down to 12 weeks, why not 10, why not 8.

I wonder if they did get the 13 week delay they were looking for.
 
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