Cinemas should spend the winter figuring out how to adapt their model to an outdoor or a “drive-in” situation. Granted, that’s not possible for all venues, but it’s something that should be investigated over the winter. If they could mobilize that in the coming months, by perhaps March “cinemas” could get moving again and at least start bringing in some money.
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I suspect there will be no open cinemas this Christmas.
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Look at this way, depending on which chronology one uses the literary Bond was born in 1921 in November. If I was a marketing man I would exploit that, NTTD as the 100 year celebration of Bond and swan song of DC. I’d be happy with that and always wondered why that wasn’t the marketing strategy in the first place! What are they going to do to mark Bond’s literary birthday if anything? Maybe I need to spend less time thinking about Bond 
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Pretty much guaranteed.
@DaveBond21 seen this? Hoyts will be showing 10 Bond films over the coming weeks.
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Thanks for posting this, I wouldn’t have known otherwise!
Made my day, will be seeing a bunch of these I think, a fair few I’ve never seen on the big screen before.
(As an aside it’s interesting how many Brosnans they are showing. Even more interesting is that they’re showing TWINE rather that DAD… I feel that most of the public really think of GE and DAD when thinking of Brosnan.)
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Tenet’s “lacklustre performance” of 307 million without New York or California and most of the planet out of work and scared to leave the house. Mulan “relegated to streaming”
Variety not connecting that attitude (studio hyperbole of 2019 and the shame of going to streaming) they and many other journalists have with why studios are delaying on masse.
True.
But it´s the bottom line that counts. Even for studios.
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So this is an interesting article about MGM’s hedge fund owner, and the effects of NTTD’s move.
TL;DR - the effective head honcho thinks that with NTTD unreleased, this could be an attractive asset (along with their other high profile prestige film projects under studio head Michael De Luca such as Paul Thomas Anderson’s next film, Ridley Scott/Lady Gaga Gucci project, a new Ryan Gosling sci fi and more) to a potential acquisition.
The whole idea of NTTD going to streaming (as opposed to PVOD) is kinda nought because on its own, a Netflix or an Apple would need to pay half a billion at least for the film alone. But as part of a larger acquisition this could be a potential game changer - if a deal (which MGM’s shareholders have been pushing for it seems) happens sooner rather than later.
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WSJ reports Barber supposedly was shown the door because his talks about selling off had been unsanctioned. That somehow doesn’t tally with the actual talks being reported/rumoured about for some time and the simple fact that Barber’s deal, had he ever produced one, would have had to go through all instances anyway. There was no secret about where MGM was going under the hedge funds.
Another version has it Barber wasn’t sacked for talking to potential buyers - that was a given in his brief - but because he tried too hard to secure his own position after the sale. Which would at least be understandable insofar as Barber obviously enjoyed being MGM boss.
It’s not really possible to verify this from without, so this is really only an unsubstantiated rumour. But at least it would tally with the prolonged haggle and bargaining that’s been going on around MGM for years now and that cannot have escaped MGM’s owners.
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No, I hadn’t seen that, thanks
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All I can say is good riddance: Barber refused to release Francis Ford Coppola’s restoration/recut of THE COTTON CLUB ENCORE–despite the fact that Coppola footed the $500,000 cost himself. With Barber out of the way, the film was released, and is now available on blu-ray (we will get Coppola’s re-edit of THE GODFATHER PART III in December).
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By the way, the Archives book was supposed to also get an update, including a chapter on NTTD. In the preview you can see a still from the film I haven’t seen elsewhere yet:
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And Disney keeps its prime content away from cinemas…
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They actually want to make money…
Disney understands the market and appears to be flexible, with the possible exception of Marvel.
That could even be contractual. Black Widow has to be released cinematic, but Marvel’s whole model means one delay delays everything, if they suddenly can cut loose of the contract, there could be a FLOOD of Marvel movies…
Or the filming of other movies being delayed has meant they should delay the release of the one film they do have to compensate.