I guess going to Disney Plus (or whatever other streaming platform) is the modern age equivalent of the old proverbial "going straight to DVD", formerly "straight to VHS".
No wonder she's pissed off, but maybe it's the movie?
Probably more to do with trying to promote Disney+ to juice growth numbers there, coupled with COVID still keeping a lid on theatrical box office revenue. I wouldn't take it as a commentary on Disney's perceived quality of the movie - they're still heavily incentivized to maximize ROI on a hundreds of millions of dollars' investment.
Hollywood has been talking for ages about the collapse of theatrical windows and COVID accelerated it (they were already mostly collapsed with home entertainment marketing campaigns starting something like 4 weeks after theatrical releases). I think this will likely be the new normal. I imagine we're probably going to see another cycle of contract renegotiations for streaming revenue share like in 2008 when the writers' guild went on strike over revenue sharing on DVD sales. Hopefully it doesn't come to strikes again.
Right; given the "collapse of theatrical windows", you'd think that the actors would see this and try to somehow wriggle out of compensation clauses linked to box office targets?
I paid a shitload more money to watch that movie on Disney+ than I would ever pay to watch it in a movie theater.
Why should Disney ever be making less money on a movie that they show on Disney+ at such a premium?
Why would they be paying her so much less money for it being shown on Disney+ versus what they would be paying her for it being shown in a movie theater?
I get why the companies that own movie theaters would be unhappy about this situation, but I don’t see how her income could be materially impacted here, given how much they are charging for this movie right now.
> As part of the suit, they share emails from the star’s management group that asked the studio to guarantee that “Black Widow” would premiere exclusively in cinemas. In response, Marvel Chief Counsel Dave Galluzzi promised a traditional theatrical bow, while adding “We understand that should the plan change, we would need to discuss this with you and come to an understanding as the deal is based on a series of (very large) box office bonuses.”
> Spokespeople for Disney did not respond to a request for comment.
Wow, talk about blatent. It'll be interesting to see the final settlement.
Would a court typically award the full set of bonuses in this type of scenario or attempt to calculate it based on estimated theater turnout? Would each streaming purchase be counted as the equivalent of one individual, the average household size, etc?
No publicity is bad publicity. I think this is more bullshit to sell us this movie . The green knight was in the news this week to much, and the studio wanted to fix that .
No wonder she's pissed off, but maybe it's the movie?
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