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Re:Streaming Video Will Soon Look Like the Bad Old Days of TV by asdff on Friday August 23, 2019 @03:18AM (#20775204)
Who cares when the investment was recouped 3x at the box office alone. Hollywood makes money hand over fist at the box office and clammoring about lost DVD sales is clammoring about icing on the cake. Movies like infinity war make several orders of magnitude more money at the box office than home release.
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Re:Streaming Video Will Soon Look Like the Bad Old Days of TV by dwild on Friday August 23, 2019 @09:55AM (#20777625)
> Movies like infinity war make several orders of magnitude more money at the box office than home release.

Your example is the world record at the box office... they don't all gain as much.

Plenty of movies and TV shows depends on the cash they make from streaming service. Hell it's not even yours to decide whether they made enough profit. Why not make your own movie if that so profitable? You know damn well it's not that profitable and most struggle.

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Re:Streaming Video Will Soon Look Like the Bad Old Days of TV by scarface74 on Friday August 23, 2019 @11:18AM (#20778513)
Not only that, experts predict that Infinity War will be less profitable on an ROI basis than movies that generated less revenue because of actors salaries.
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Re:Streaming Video Will Soon Look Like the Bad Old Days of TV by scarface74 on Friday August 23, 2019 @04:35AM (#20775564)
That’s not true. Movie studios have been making more money from non theatre sources since the 90s.
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Re:Streaming Video Will Soon Look Like the Bad Old Days of TV by P_I_Staker on Friday August 23, 2019 @08:15AM (#20776689)
Not all movies do well at the box office, there's plenty of flops as well.
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