It would put pressure on the US home video distribution, as UK is Universal, so pirating sites would be flooded with 4K copies of the film.
Piracy in the digital age has killed staggered releasing.
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The market in general is now just āglobalā - what happens in one part sooner or later is going to happen wherever else it suits. Itās important to remember that a sooner home entertainment release is in fact a way to cut losses while still being able to show the film in traditional theatres.
It all depends how far the studio is willing to go and how they adjust their expectations accordingly. NO TIME TO DIE is ready for release, they could put it on the market next month, provided they are prepared for a significantly diminished box office.
That said, I donāt think itās already a given NO TIME TO DIE will be a bad earner. I would expect it to come somewhere middle of the pack, perhaps even towards the upper quarter. Itās still a film every Bond fan is expecting eagerly, even the subset of āā¦IS NOT BONDā yellers (though for distinctly different reasons). On top of a vast number of the general audience who just canāt wait to finally see a blockbuster again.
If this film opens in theatres there will be a lot of people there to see them - and not just Nolan or Tom Cruise.
Finally, home entertainment - in whatever form - doesnāt mean the film will just be released for free. Plenty of people are willing to spend for an early streaming ticket - and may possibly watch it several times at home. Before they cave in and buy the blue ray.
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Two people who will plug it if just for the sake of their own works that pilfer heavily from it
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I thought Christmas only comes once a year.
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Now that is interestingā¦
Iām all for it.
The real question is: when will there finally be only one company which owns everything?
When Amazon looks at Disney and itās stomach gurgles.
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This is still frustrating for us in Australia who are going to the cinema every other weekend, and weāve been watching movies there since at least November.
Weāre ready for Bond now, please!!
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Australia really managed to do the right things. You are envied.
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Blame the previous American administration. The studio need the US market to get their cut, but US cinemas couldnāt open due to a really bad handling of the pandemic, so the studio wonāt distribute.
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If it helps we are way behind in vaccinations (but obviously life is fairly normal in the meantime which is good)
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With so few cases in Australia lagging behind in vaccinations is probably still a relatively comfortable position. The big test will be when travel will pick up and likely result in higher numbers again.
Last year the pandemic might have been beaten if travel had been stopped soon enough - or if we hadnāt insisted on restarting the tourism industry because by now itās our civic right to jet around the globe regardless of circumstances. But the key here is that tourism is an industry. And for many poorer countries itās the main industry. A thing that cannot easily be put on hold for a year.
Right now the pressure around the globe is to open up again. People want to spend their holidays abroad again (even if some/many will not book flights immediately this year or the next) - and the world is eagerly expecting them, prepared to wine and dine and house them for a time and make a little profit from it.
I used to be very critical of this urge, simply because I grew up in a world where tourism was already big but nowhere near the behemoth it is now. The world I remember has changed massively and tourism is now one of the big financial transfer streams pumping money from the rich world to the poor (and of course back to the rich again, but thatās another matter entirely).
The trick would be to allow a reasonable degree of opening up in stride with a close control of case numbers. In an ideal world only fully vaccinated or recovered people would travel - while the vaccination roll out continues until COVID-19 is finally beaten for good. If at all possible this will likely take years.
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That is what is the most frustrating for me. We could be in a much better position already, with a lot less suffering and deaths, but a mix of money and stupidity is and will keep on dragging this tragedy out and out, while those who contribute to it are the loudest voices claiming they are deprived of their freedoms.
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Agreed.
This thing could have been beaten already if it had been handled intelligently. But, with very few exceptions, virtually every nation around the world has managed to find incredible ways to botch this thing. Even here in the US, where we had finally started to turn the corner, the CDC, which had been running so much better under new leadership, tripped over its own two feet on the way to the finish line with its new mask guidance. Cases will begin to creep up again over the summer as this idiotic attempt to restart things too early will cause the virus to begin to spread again.
Lord only knows how this planet would handle a crisis where the entire globe was put into immediate danger by something that we could actually see and comprehend. If wearing a piece of cloth over oneās face is too much to save lives these days, then I shudder to think what would happen if we were faced with a potential meteor or asteroid impact or, perhaps more realistically, World War III, where more profound and concrete sacrifices would have to be made. Or even to think about what would have happened if a much more lethal virus were to go airborne.
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Points out the things we already did in this and other threads: chemistry, chemistry and chemistry being the major concerns. And that this will be influencing things and events of the next two, maybe three decades, not the immediate future of NO TIME TO DIE.
Weāre already 7 hours into it:
Good Morning 
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Ignore me lol. 
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