Re:Netflix Is Now Available Around the World
by macspoofing on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @05:34PM
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>Also Netflix gets $10 a month from me. $120 for a year. Double what I spend at the cinema.
Which means you're spending $180 on movies per year. $120 for a legacy catalogue of hundreds of movies, and $60 for six new releases. So why would they give up that extra $60?
Re:Netflix Is Now Available Around the World
by 2muchcoffeeman on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @06:47PM
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Well, you originally questioned how they would recoup the cost of making a big movie. And I replied thinking it was entirely possible.
As for your next question, maybe making their own movies does not exclude theatrical releases and getting another $60 from me.
I think their bigger concern is not having to deal with expiring streaming rights and regional distribution rights. They want their own library of quality content.
Also Netflix gets $10 a month from me. $120 for a year. Double what I spend at the cinema.
And I don't watch big budget movies all the time. I can see them getting customers to keep paying the monthly subscription for the cheaper to make content and then they have enough money left over to film a few huge movies every year. Especially if they use relatively unknown talent that won't get paid tens of millions a film.