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Re:Warner Bros. Will Send Entire 2021 Slate to HBO Max and T... by Touche on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:35PM (#25295419)
I'm pretty skeptical that big budget superhero style movies can make a profit this way. It either means a shift in the types of movies that get made (not a bad thing), or studios eating cost for a couple of years until the theater market rebounds. I can see non-Disney studios losing a lot of money on this model and mergers and acquisitions would not be surprising to me.
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Re:Warner Bros. Will Send Entire 2021 Slate to HBO Max and T... by MisterBastahrd on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:58PM (#25295760)
That's when you just go animated because they're better off that way anyway. We're probably less than 20 years off from being able to show fully virtual films that are close to being virtually indistinguishable from live action anyway.
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Re:Warner Bros. Will Send Entire 2021 Slate to HBO Max and T... by soylentcola on Thursday December 03, 2020 @05:20PM (#25296028)
When you see one of those "behind the scenes" comparisons of a modern superhero movie with what's shot "live" and what's composited in later, you realize how much of it really is a fancy "cartoon". So much of what you see is animated in some fashion that the main difference between that and something billed as "animation" is the art style and toolset.
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Re:Warner Bros. Will Send Entire 2021 Slate to HBO Max and T... by Touche on Thursday December 03, 2020 @09:35PM (#25298281)
Some quick googling and it appears that animated is roughly 25% cheaper, is that enough to make the direct route profitable?
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