U.S. movie theater operators aim for a late-summer blockbuster season

More subpar remakes and recycled action figure + Marvel comic films with wimpy characters, and tired formulas. More unoriginal trash, dull 'comedies' with tired juvenile potty jokes + sexual references. Cliches galore. what difference is it going to make when the 'blockbuster' season starts? It's the same old tired garbage every Memorial Day weekend, all summer long and on Christmas Day.

And you get gouged for concessions. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

July will be too soon. Think October after the second NYC virus hump.

We see 1-2 movies in a theatre a year.

Our home theatre setup is more convenient and nicer. Waiting 3, 6, 12, 18, months for a movie isn't an issue. Plus, we have the Gummy bears that I prefer and buttered popcorn made just right for pennies at home.

It’s going to have to be blockbuster first run movies to get people to go to a theater in these times.

something you have already seen multiple times that you can rewatch at home is not gonna get it done.

@Starpunk - couldn't have written it any better!

Bit off topic but with top gun 2 being postponed how about releasing it now on Netflix while you have a literal “captive audience “

Netflix would have to pay them a lot more money to match what they would have earned from the box office - which means increasing subscription prices

Or Netflix can do a separate "Netflix Prime" for those subscribers who are willing to pay the higher price to see the movies day-date as the theaters, but at the comfort of their homes

People in the business have been paying for access like that for a few years. Spielberg backed a "day-of" movie at home offer https://variety.com/2016/film/news/steven-spielberg-j-j-abrams-peter-jackson-sean-parker-screening-room-1201728374/

The company will offer new movies in the home for $50 at the same time as they open in theaters. It would charge $150 for access to the anti-piracy equipped set-top box that transmits the films.

48 hours to watch. Average Americans won't pay that, but wealthy people will. $50 isn't worth thinking about for some people and their home theatre setups are nicer than any public theatre.

Kobe White Bar OwnerToday 02:18 pm JSTBit off topic but with top gun 2 being postponed how about releasing it now on Netflix while you have a literal “captive audience “

It's just like my previous posting. 'Top Gun' came out in 1986, during the Cold War and coincidentally the same time as the first 'War On Terror' (Libya). EVERYTHING has changed - there isn't even a U.S.S.R. anymore! 34 years have elapsed since that movie and in most military careers in real life 30 years is tops (you can retire in 20). Tom Cruise himself has aged (physically) and even some of the jets used in the film (and in real life) are out of commission. The USS Enterprise is now scrap. A sequel could've been made say in 1988 and it probably would've been success. Making one now makes no sense at all. It's pointless.

Let it be!