The future of movies....

[HaventGotALife]

Amazon and Netflix, 4K technology, 3D technology, digital streams, YouTube. The Times wrote a piece talking about the future of the movies.

Just kicking around ideas.

Fandango does events. What about, the night before a season drops on Netflix or Amazon Prime, you can see the two-hour season premiere in the movie theater? They also do small events on Premiere Prime Night or Netflix night, based off of research into what is popular.

So if your 500,000 dollar movie gets 50,000 hits in three days, the movie is released into theaters. Therefore, Netflix determines what fills the experience of movie houses, with a wealth of data to back up those numbers, and with time and experience, what will translate well on-screen. From Premiere Prime Night, the movie theater can opt to keep a picture for whatever time they choose.

This is to supplement not supplant the current systems.

We also need an arthouse app. "Indie" app has all the movies from the film festivals that previous year. Between the awards and the hits, they determine what indie picks end up in the theaters. We could have Film Festival Night, too, where you get discounts for seeing multiple films, or you get a ticket to see 5 short films back-to-back.

You get Geek night where theaters can choose five films from Netflix to run in theaters. Or Rom Com Night. Patrons vote online for their favorites to see from ten choices.

I have no background in this, so I don't know how the studios work, the business. Just thought it was an interesting topic.

 

[Timewalker]

Amazon and Netflix, 4K technology, 3D technology, digital streams, YouTube. The Times wrote a piece talking about the future of the movies.

Just kicking around ideas.

Fandango does events. What about, the night before a season drops on Netflix or Amazon Prime, you can see the two-hour season premiere in the movie theater? They also do small events on Premiere Prime Night or Netflix night, based off of research into what is popular.

So if your 500,000 dollar movie gets 50,000 hits in three days, the movie is released into theaters. Therefore, Netflix determines what fills the experience of movie houses, with a wealth of data to back up those numbers, and with time and experience, what will translate well on-screen. From Premiere Prime Night, the movie theater can opt to keep a picture for whatever time they choose.

This is to supplement not supplant the current systems.

We also need an arthouse app. "Indie" app has all the movies from the film festivals that previous year. Between the awards and the hits, they determine what indie picks end up in the theaters. We could have Film Festival Night, too, where you get discounts for seeing multiple films, or you get a ticket to see 5 short films back-to-back.

You get Geek night where theaters can choose five films from Netflix to run in theaters. Or Rom Com Night. Patrons vote online for their favorites to see from ten choices.

I have no background in this, so I don't know how the studios work, the business. Just thought it was an interesting topic.

I don't have Netflix and haven't set foot in a movie theatre in nearly 20 years. I just wait for movies to be on TV or available on DVD. So this elaborate scheme would be useless for people like me.

 

[HaventGotALife]

I don't have Netflix and haven't set foot in a movie theatre in nearly 20 years. I just wait for movies to be on TV or available on DVD. So this elaborate scheme would be useless for people like me.

So what would make the experience of being in the theater worth the ten-to-fifteen dollar tickets, and traffic, maybe a babysitter, if you have kids?

Why don't you go to the movies? Just curious, not prying.

 

[Avro Arrow]

So what would make the experience of being in the theater worth the ten-to-fifteen dollar tickets

For me personally? Not much. In the past decade, I believe I have been to a theatre only three times: once for each of the most recent Star Trek movies.

I am socially anxious, introverted, and I don't like crowds of people. I don't have Netflix, but if I did, the concept of going to the theatre to watch something that I already had the ability to watch from home is just too bizarre to contemplate.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

There’s two reasons I would go to a theatre. First, if the movie is primarily visual in appeal. Second, if I want to see it early enough to be in the conversation at its peak.

 

[Delta Vega]

There's been several big movies I've wanted to see on the big screen over the years, but I don't like the cinema environment, with too many noisy bastards with their noisy drinks and snacks, who can't shut their fucking mouths for two seconds.
It's not a good experience.
Last three movies I've seen in the cinema were "The Last Jedi", "Dunkirk" and "The Force Awakens"
The first two I had a vested interest in.