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Disney Releasing ‘Eternals,’ ‘Encanto’ Exclusively in Theaters

'Eternals,' 'The Last Duel,' 'West Side Story,' 'Ron's Gone Wrong' and 'The King's Man' will play exclusively in theaters for 45 days.

variety.com

Disney announced on Friday that upcoming 2021 films “Eternals,” “The Last Duel,” “West Side Story,” “Ron’s Gone Wrong” and “The King’s Man” will get exclusive, 45-day theatrical windows before moving to digital platforms.

“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” Marvel’s first exclusive theatrical release in more than two years, has grossed $105.9 million domestically through Wednesday. While that is on the lower end of grosses for MCU features, it also means “Shang-Chi” is already outpacing the theatrical grosses of “Black Widow,” which had earned $100.7 million at that point in its theatrical run after opening in July day-and-date on Disney Plus Premier Access. That makes “Shang-Chi” one of the best performing theatrical releases of the pandemic era and practically an existential boon for exhibitors in desperate need of some good news.

 

[OverHeat]

Fuck…I loved day 1 on VOD

 

[DKehoe]

I love going to the cinema. So I'm glad that's not going away. When things started to pivot to streaming services I started to get concerned about the future of cinemas. But it's a pity for people who prefer VOD.

 

[sol_bad]

Good, another 4 months and most movies should have an exclusive theatrical run again. Day and date fucks shit up.

 

[ManaByte]

Good, another 4 months and most movies should have an exclusive theatrical run again. Day and date fucks shit up.

I saw KISS last night (FUCKING AMAZING) and in CA where there's an 80+% vaccination rate the place was packed full of people. No masks. People aren't afraid anymore once they're vaccinated. Heard of opening night Shang-Chi screenings in the area being 95-100% full as well.

 

[Little Mac]

Fuck ... the theater experience blows with or without the pandemic. Guess I'll wait for releases then.

 

[dorkimoe]

Pass. Im done with theaters, my home setup is just as good and i dont have to deal with those things..what are they called...oh yeah..people.

 

[zeorhymer]

I guess the lawsuit will be memory holed into oblivion.

 

[Cockles & Whelks]

Pass. Im done with theaters, my home setup is just as good and i dont have to deal with those things..what are they called...oh yeah..people.

Hotdogs from the couple behind that are so long they bang you on the head. Phone light girl. Teenage yobs. Spoiler guy. Fucking Ai.

 

[dorkimoe]

Hotdogs from the couple behind that are so long they bang you on the head. Phone light girl. Teenage yobs. Spoiler guy. Fucking Ai.

Last couple things that happened to me was that guy who thinks hes funny shouting things out, a lady next to me with the biggest jangly earings ever making noise.

 

[SafeOrAlone]

Dude fell asleep next to me and started snoring ten minutes into Logan. Someone a row ahead started staring, came up and asked if the guy was my grandpa, before nudging him awake and complaining. Guy fell right back asleep.

This is after the man’s only words to me were “sneaking in??” when I first approached and sat down in my assigned seat.

 

[RoboFu]

Yay… I get to go watch new movies with room full of loud self centered a-holes!! Hurrah!

 

[sol_bad]

Hotdogs from the couple behind that are so long they bang you on the head. Phone light girl. Teenage yobs. Spoiler guy. Fucking Ai.

Let me guess, you go to the movies 2-3 times a year?

 

[gatti-man]

All these cry babies about theaters. Go to a theater that respects their customers. I go see probably 12 movies a year and have only had 1 bad experience in like 5 years.

 

[Dr. Claus]

Let me guess, you go to the movies 2-3 times a year?

Let me guess, you are ignorant of reality?

All these cry babies about theaters. Go to a theater that respects their customers. I go see probably 12 movies a year and have only had 1 bad experience in like 5 years.

Not everyone has that option, in fact most don't. Hundreds of cities/towns have a single theatre available for "modern" movies, if they are lucky enough to even get that.

 

[oagboghi2]

So fewer choices for regular people, but more money in Disneys pocket. Hooray

At least the theatre snobs will stop whining about the "theatre experience"

 

[sol_bad]

Let me guess, you are ignorant of reality?



Not everyone has that option, in fact most don't. Hundreds of cities/towns have a single theatre available for "modern" movies, if they are lucky enough to even get that.

Not ignorant at all, all the things that people whinge about in here happen maybe 1 in 10 times.

 

[gatti-man]

Let me guess, you are ignorant of reality?



Not everyone has that option, in fact most don't. Hundreds of cities/towns have a single theatre available for "modern" movies, if they are lucky enough to even get that.

Every major city I’ve ever been to has Atleast one decent theater. Austin has like 6 used to be more pre covid

 

[Kev Kev]

I much prefer at home. You can’t pause the movie at a theater and I like to get up and grab a drink or a snack without missing anything. And I always find myself having to go pee at the theatre… yeah I’m good, I’ll just wait for VOD

 

[Kenpachii]

Theatrical releases what year is this.

 

[Dr. Claus]

Every major city I’ve ever been to has Atleast one decent theater. Austin has like 6 used to be more pre covid

I repeat. Hundreds of cities/towns have a single theatre available. Not everyone lives in major cities.

Not ignorant at all, all the things that people whinge about in here happen maybe 1 in 10 times.

Given your history, find it far more likely you are oblivious to these things happening around you. These are all incredibly common across theatres all over the US.

 

[Rockondevil]

Couple of years ago before I had a kid my wife and I went to most big release movies at the cinemas.
Love the experience and glad it's going back to that. I'd think it'd be somewhat sad for my son to grow up with cinemas non-existent.

I've never even had a bad experience with dozens of movies a year, unlike apparently so many people above me have had.

 

[gatti-man]

I repeat. Hundreds of cities/towns have a single theatre available. Not everyone lives in major cities.


Given your history, find it far more likely you are oblivious to these things happening around you. These are all incredibly common across theatres all over the US.

And yet shang chi did 95m during a pandemic. Obviously not as bad as you say then is it.

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

The funny thing is marvel fans are the most obnoxious people to share a theater with.

I don’t mind waiting for most of Disney’s crap to come to streaming.

 

[cherry2000]

boring as shit watching movies at home

 

[sol_bad]

I repeat. Hundreds of cities/towns have a single theatre available. Not everyone lives in major cities.


Given your history, find it far more likely you are oblivious to these things happening around you. These are all incredibly common across theatres all over the US.

No, when it does happen and it is annoying. If the person is near me I'll politely ask them to turn their phone off or stop talking. If they don't I'll make a complaint.

Food can't be helped, I remember people eating popcorn loudly behind me during A Quiet Place 2. The retarded idiots wouldn't wait until the loud scenes to chew. Still a better first time experience than at home.

Like I said, when you make very regular trips to the cinema it's not often an issue. If you only go 2-3 times a year and don't go opening weekend I can see this seeming like a bigger issue than it is. This is for cinemas in the Philippines and Australia.

 

[IDKFA]

Fuck ... the theater experience blows with or without the pandemic. Guess I'll wait for releases then.

Do you live in the US?

I only ask because I've noticed a lot of people in the US say the same thing.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

I saw KISS last night (FUCKING AMAZING) and in CA where there's an 80+% vaccination rate the place was packed full of people. No masks. People aren't afraid anymore once they're vaccinated. Heard of opening night Shang-Chi screenings in the area being 95-100% full as well.

And in a few days we will get an uptick again.
I like choice between home TV and cinema.

 

[mcjmetroid]

If they make a film I want to see I'll go to the cinema again.

Only Pixar movies I like from Disney these days because that's their only studio making original content.

i like seeing new ideas at the cinema.

 

[Zenaku]

I know it shouldn't, but that gif in the op is really annoying me. Why does he move backwards between camera cuts?

 

[Little Mac]

Do you live in the US?

I only ask because I've noticed a lot of people in the US say the same thing.

Yes. The whole experience is trash here imo.

 

[IDKFA]

Yes. The whole experience is trash here imo.

So I've heard. People talking, shouting, screaming or howling like banshees during the film. That would put me off as well.

In the UK it's totally different. No phones allowed and it's totally silent, which with the huge screen and sound system, makes it a truly immersive experience.

 

[FunkMiller]

Literally no movie I can’t wait 45 days for (with exception of The Batman). My cinema young days are nearly over.

 

[ManaByte]

And in a few days we will get an uptick again.

That's not the thread for this, but that's not what happened in India and England who had the Delta variant. Much like there, cases in CA are plummeting.

 

[thefool]

Good. You want to watch at home, you wait.

Make it like a 9 month window btw. No reason to even short it when you have a continuous catalog of other shit in your platform.

 

[TonyK]

The only good thing pandemic seemed to bring has been fucked. I wanted simultaneous releases in theaters and home.

 

[ManaByte]

Make it like a 9 month window btw. No reason to even short it when you have a continuous catalog of other shit in your platform

The original window before COVID was 90 days. Why the hell would they increase it to 9 months?

 

[Fox Mulder]

I got spoiled by home releases and probably won’t go to the theaters again. The last time I did was for Endgame.

 

[Velcro Fly]

HBO Max has had a ton of stuff this year that i've watched rather than go see in a theater including a bunch of stuff I wouldn't have watched otherwise. Only thing I wish I would have gone to the theater to see was Godzilla vs Kong but I'm not sure theaters near me were open yet then.

 

[Cleared_Hot]

I saw KISS last night (FUCKING AMAZING) and in CA where there's an 80+% vaccination rate the place was packed full of people. No masks. People aren't afraid anymore once they're vaccinated. Heard of opening night Shang-Chi screenings in the area being 95-100% full as well.

People aren't afraid anymore period. This vaccine is fucking useless remember

 

[Punished Miku]

I'll go see Avatar 2 in the theater. That's probably about it as far as I know.

 

[hemo memo]

Day and date was dumb to begin with. This is how you do it. This is how the movie makers intended it. Keep it this way.

 

[ManaByte]

This vaccine is fucking useless remember

 

[nightmare-slain]

one of the few good things about covid now gone...

cinemas are dirty nasty places.

 

[Ulysses 31]

one of the few good things about covid now gone...

cinemas are dirty nasty places.

And IMO 4K/8K QLED/OLED tvs have better picture than those big cinema projectors.

Surround sound systems in cinema's though, those are harder to beat in a home cinema.

 

[sinnergy]

They just go back to their same old routine.. pandemics won’t change that

 

[Hari Seldon]

No big deal I didn't go to the theaters before the pandemic and I won't go if they return to their ways. I will wait.

 

[ManaByte]

They just go back to their same old routine.. pandemics won’t change that

45 day windows is cutting the original theatrical window in half, and you can be sure the theater owner's mafia won't be happy about that and will be threatening to break some studio legs over it.

The way theater grosses work is the first 3 weekends are best for the studios. They make the most then as the majority of the box office take goes to them. But as the run goes on the balance shifts to the theater's favor. So after about a month and half (45 days) the theater is then making the majority of the take from the box office and not the movie studios. That's why the original theatrical window for everyone was a standard 90 days.

Cutting it down to 45 days looks good from a studio PR angle, it says "hey we're exclusive to theaters for 45 days" but the truth of the matter is you can be sure the theater owners association is pissed about it because the movie really benefits the movie studios more than the theaters with the way the grosses are dished out.

 

[Fbh]

As someone who lives 500 miles for the nearest movie theater I was enjoying the VOID released.

But to be honest I'm glad they are going back to the regular release method. I don't think they were making as much money with the day and date format and I'd rather wait a couple of months instead of having the blockbuster industry regress to Netflix original production values to accommodate for lower profits.

 

[Javthusiast]

Fuck the cinema experience. I can easily wait 45 days.