The heads of Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. and 21st Century Fox Inc.’s Twentieth Century Fox, Kevin Tsujihara and Stacey Snider, have publicly advocated for premium VOD in the past few months. Jeff Shell, who runs Comcast Corp.’s Universal Pictures, has been a leading voice behind the scenes.

The issue is expected to be widely discussed at next week’s CinemaCon, an annual convention for theater owners at which studios tout their coming releases.

If the two sides fail to reach a consensus soon, at least one studio may force the issue by announcing a premium VOD policy, people with knowledge of the plans said. Other studios would likely follow suit, forcing theaters to cooperate or lose out on hundreds of releases.

T-minus 10 wrote:Forget this trailer, dont see it. I can recognize an obsession, no good will come of it.

dormouse7 wrote:Article about Premium VOD (Video on Demand). Warner Brothers is one of the studios that wants this. Movies could be streamed at home within weeks of cinema premiere, at a premium price of $30-50.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/from-multi ... 1490532001

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The heads of Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. and 21st Century Fox Inc.’s Twentieth Century Fox, Kevin Tsujihara and Stacey Snider, have publicly advocated for premium VOD in the past few months. Jeff Shell, who runs Comcast Corp.’s Universal Pictures, has been a leading voice behind the scenes.

The issue is expected to be widely discussed at next week’s CinemaCon, an annual convention for theater owners at which studios tout their coming releases.

If the two sides fail to reach a consensus soon, at least one studio may force the issue by announcing a premium VOD policy, people with knowledge of the plans said. Other studios would likely follow suit, forcing theaters to cooperate or lose out on hundreds of releases.

Sanchez wrote:

dormouse7 wrote:Article about Premium VOD (Video on Demand). Warner Brothers is one of the studios that wants this. Movies could be streamed at home within weeks of cinema premiere, at a premium price of $30-50.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/from-multi ... 1490532001

Excerpt:

The heads of Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. and 21st Century Fox Inc.’s Twentieth Century Fox, Kevin Tsujihara and Stacey Snider, have publicly advocated for premium VOD in the past few months. Jeff Shell, who runs Comcast Corp.’s Universal Pictures, has been a leading voice behind the scenes.

The issue is expected to be widely discussed at next week’s CinemaCon, an annual convention for theater owners at which studios tout their coming releases.

If the two sides fail to reach a consensus soon, at least one studio may force the issue by announcing a premium VOD policy, people with knowledge of the plans said. Other studios would likely follow suit, forcing theaters to cooperate or lose out on hundreds of releases.

Haven't Nolan been pretty vocal against stuff like this? Wonder if he's gonna switch studio for his next film.

[...] but other players like Warner Bros. and Fox seem more amenable to having a different release pattern for different movies. In that kind model, bigger franchise films that tend to have longer runs in theaters might be held back from release on demand.

Law wrote:

T-minus 10 wrote:Forget this trailer, dont see it. I can recognize an obsession, no good will come of it.

Why, haven't good come of your obsessions?

Sky007 wrote:Dunkirk posters are at cinemacon which suggests that footage will be shown there.

The Special One wrote:

Sky007 wrote:Dunkirk posters are at cinemacon which suggests that footage will be shown there.

When is cinemacon?