However, without the hybrid release, those movies (save for the Oscar-winning Judas and the Black Messiah) probably would have been delayed or (potentially with Tom & Jerry) sent to HBO Max without any theatrical component. You can absolutely argue that those grosses would have been bigger if not for HBO Max. If you just count movies released in 2021, WB has earned $174 million (53%) out of $323 million thus far. releases, including rereleases of Lord of the Rings and Elf and holdover business from Wonder Woman 1984 and Tenet, have made up $198 million, or 48% of the $413.5 million in domestic box office earned in 2021. If it helped boost HBO Max’s subscriptions, retentions (Samba TV is claiming that Mortal Kombat was watched by record-for-HBO Max 3.8 million subscribers this weekend) or just its profile alongside Disney+, Amazon Prime and Netflix, well, that’s fine too.Īll told, in a somewhat ironic development, the move that we all (not absurdly) worried would hasten the demise of general audience theatrical moviegoing seems to have been its temporary salvation. If it helped movie theaters just by giving them bigger fresh product than the comparatively small-scale likes of Freaky and Let Him Go, great. Maybe it was merely what AT&T said it was, a one-year-only plan to deal with a deluge of mostly finished theatrical releases during a slower-than-hoped recovery. Maybe it was indeed envisioned as an opening shot to the eventual end of movie theaters or a way to compete with Disney+, and theatrical moviegoers just showed up in greater-than-expected numbers. and AT&T something resembling a cushion had America failed to vaccinate itself accordingly. However, the “everything on HBO Max” gimmick offered Warner Bros. Otherwise, China and Japan’s mid-August recovery (during which My People, My Homeland, The Eight Hundred and Demon Slayer all passed $400 million global) would have seen the releases of Wonder Woman 1984, No Time to Die, Black Widow and the other delayed biggies that were supposed to follow Chris Nolan’s Tenet in the last months of 2020. Kong was banking on strong business in a fully-recovered China where previous MonsterVerse movies scored big ($68 million for Godzilla, $168 million for Skull Island and $135 million for King of the Monsters), but one big territory, even China, does not a successful theatrical release make.
Kong and Mortal Kombat in late 2020/early 2021 if they were entirely counting on theatrical revenue? I’m guessing no. and AT&T have felt comfortable releasing Wonder Woman 1984, Tom & Jerry, Godzilla Vs.
John David Washington and Robert Pattinson in Chris Nolan's 'Tenet' Warner Bros.
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