It is not being an easy year for the film industry. Well, neither for the cinema nor for any other industry, but you know what we mean. Considering the situation, Warner decided that Wonder Woman 1984 It was going to be released both in theaters and on the streaming service on the same day and at the same time, but in the end, it seems that the giant has cheered up and things have gotten worse.
All Warner direct in your living room
Warner Bros Pictures has announced that all the movies it had prepared for 2021 will be available on your Smart TV from the first day of its release. And to be able to see them you will only need HBO Max, which is nothing more than the most complete variant of HBO that will arrive in Spain shortly after the company has also confirmed that the service modality will arrive in Europe next year.
I got you something ✨nice✨ this year:
The biggest movie premieres
In theaters and on HBO Max the exact same day
Beginning December 25 with #WonderWoman1984#HBOMax #WBPictureshttps://t.co/QA8MlErRYQ pic.twitter.com/VuYkTa6BGx- Warner Bros. Pictures (@wbpictures) December 3, 2020
This means that the content currently offered by HBO will double, since HBO Max It has a more complete and extensive catalog than what we see on HBO today. That said, the interesting thing will therefore come with the simultaneous release in theaters and streaming, although for now the official press release speaks of the United States, so it will be necessary to see if the releases are replicated globally.
What movies can we see?
At the moment, the confirmed premieres for this simultaneous premiere modality in 2021 are the following:
- The Little Things
- Judas and the Black Messiah
- Tom & Jerry
- Godzilla vs. Kong
- Mortal Kombat
- Those Who Wish Me Dead
- The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
- in the heights
- Space Jam: A New Legacy
- The suicide squad
- Reminiscence
- malignant
- Dune,
- The Many Saints of Newark
- King richard
- Cry Male
- Matrix 4
As you can see, a very interesting year awaits us in terms of big releases, so this could be an extremely aggressive strategy with which HBO will get new subscribers for 2021.
Will more companies be encouraged?
Taking into account the decision of a giant like Warner, the current situation that continues to lengthen and that other companies born in the world of streaming (see Netflix) are launching very high-level products, it is possible that other industry titans decide to pull the way of streaming to be able to generate income in front of movie theaters that will take a long time to fill up.
The end of piracy or the end of cinemas?
The fact that the big releases are going to be available in movie theaters around the world from the first day they are released is something that will undoubtedly encourage many to hire the services of HBO, but on the other hand, it will inevitably affect some movie theaters that are showing them. pretty bad today.
But the situation is what it is, and Warner wanted to find a way out with which to continue releasing its films and to be able to take them to the public that is waiting for them. Of course, the films can be played at home for a month, and after that time they will remain exclusively in theaters, to later make way for the traditional distribution chain until its arrival on commercial Blu-ray.
Knowing this, the main attention will possibly fall on the streaming service, and we already know that many pirated copies are extracted from it for distribution over the Internet, so the exclusivity later this month towards theaters will probably help theaters very little.