Thursday, 12 March 2015

In Boycotting Netflix, Theaters Make Themselves Obsolete

In Boycotting Netflix, Theaters Make Themselves Obsolete


Four major theater chains — AMC, Carmike, Cinemark and Regal — are boycotting the forthcoming Cary Fukunaga warlord movie Beasts of No Nation because Netflix won a bidding war for distribution and plans to release it online the same day it hits theaters. Their issue is that there’s typically a 90-day holding period between theatrical and DVD/Blu-ray/Streaming release to safeguard them against at-home competition, and to look at its modern history, you’d think that...

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