本月初,华纳传媒宣布了一项大胆的新院线发行计划:将于同一天在影院和流媒体视频服务平台HBO Max首映一系列电影,其中包括《沙丘》、《黑客帝国4》、《身在高地》、《哥斯拉大战金刚》等备受期待的大片。好莱坞对此一片哗然。
影评人为即将消逝的电影院感到悲痛,因为如今这些电影院失去了获得利润的独家渠道。业内观察家预测,电影业将被永远改变。导演克里斯托弗•诺兰的电影《信条》今年初由华纳兄弟发行,他谴责了这一发行计划,并称HBO Max是“最糟糕的流媒体视频服务商”。
尽管引起了轩然大波,但华纳传媒坚持认为,过去一年来,娱乐业被为应对冠状病毒而采取的居家隔离措施所颠覆,而线上线下同步首映只是一项临时举措。
在周一召开的《财富》杂志关于媒体和娱乐业未来的座谈会上,华纳传媒工作室和网络集团主席兼首席执行官安•萨诺夫表示:“这是一项针对疫情采取的策略。我们准备了17部电影,并且希望能够发行它们。”
“其他影视公司只是对问题视而不见而已,如果这样的话,那就一直推迟电影上映时间,”萨诺夫补充说道。“或者将电影卖给流媒体,或用付费视频点播的方式将电影以数字形式发布。”
萨诺夫表示,虽然受到了像诺兰这样的影院迷和电影院线的批评,但华纳的战略实际上是符合放映业利益的。
“我们很希望能在大屏幕上看到这些即将上映的电影,”她说。“我们认为影院非常重要。希望能帮助影院继续营业,所以在2021年给了它们17部电影。但我认为其中大部分仍然会感受到冠状病毒疫情的影响,考虑到这方面,我们认为这是一个相当不错的策略。”
美国最大的院线AMC似乎不同意这种观点,其首席执行官亚当•阿伦表示,华纳传媒“打算牺牲相当一部分利润”来补贴HBO Max。
阿伦说:“AMC将竭尽全力确保华纳不会以牺牲我们的利益为代价。我们将积极寻求能够保护我们业务的经济条件。”(财富中文网)
译者:沈伟韬
本月初,华纳传媒宣布了一项大胆的新院线发行计划:将于同一天在影院和流媒体视频服务平台HBO Max首映一系列电影,其中包括《沙丘》、《黑客帝国4》、《身在高地》、《哥斯拉大战金刚》等备受期待的大片。好莱坞对此一片哗然。
影评人为即将消逝的电影院感到悲痛,因为如今这些电影院失去了获得利润的独家渠道。业内观察家预测,电影业将被永远改变。导演克里斯托弗•诺兰的电影《信条》今年初由华纳兄弟发行,他谴责了这一发行计划,并称HBO Max是“最糟糕的流媒体视频服务商”。
尽管引起了轩然大波,但华纳传媒坚持认为,过去一年来,娱乐业被为应对冠状病毒而采取的居家隔离措施所颠覆,而线上线下同步首映只是一项临时举措。
在周一召开的《财富》杂志关于媒体和娱乐业未来的座谈会上,华纳传媒工作室和网络集团主席兼首席执行官安•萨诺夫表示:“这是一项针对疫情采取的策略。我们准备了17部电影,并且希望能够发行它们。”
“其他影视公司只是对问题视而不见而已,如果这样的话,那就一直推迟电影上映时间,”萨诺夫补充说道。“或者将电影卖给流媒体,或用付费视频点播的方式将电影以数字形式发布。”
萨诺夫表示,虽然受到了像诺兰这样的影院迷和电影院线的批评,但华纳的战略实际上是符合放映业利益的。
“我们很希望能在大屏幕上看到这些即将上映的电影,”她说。“我们认为影院非常重要。希望能帮助影院继续营业,所以在2021年给了它们17部电影。但我认为其中大部分仍然会感受到冠状病毒疫情的影响,考虑到这方面,我们认为这是一个相当不错的策略。”
美国最大的院线AMC似乎不同意这种观点,其首席执行官亚当•阿伦表示,华纳传媒“打算牺牲相当一部分利润”来补贴HBO Max。
阿伦说:“AMC将竭尽全力确保华纳不会以牺牲我们的利益为代价。我们将积极寻求能够保护我们业务的经济条件。”(财富中文网)
译者:沈伟韬
Hollywood was up in arms earlier this month when WarnerMedia announced a bold new theatrical release plan: Movies will premiere in theaters and on its streaming service, HBO Max, on the same day. That includes highly anticipated blockbusters like Dune, The Matrix 4, In the Heights, and Godzilla vs. Kong.
Critics mourned the imminent death of cinemas, now without exclusive windows to generate profits. Industry observers predicted the movie business would change forever. Director Christopher Nolan, whose film Tenet was distributed by Warner Bros. earlier this year, denounced the plan and called HBO Max "the worst streaming service."
Despite the uproar, WarnerMedia maintains the plan is just a temporary measure following a year in which the entertainment industry was upended by stay-at-home coronavirus measures.
"It's a pandemic strategy. We have 17 movies ready to go, and we want to be able to release them," said Ann Sarnoff, chair and CEO of WarnerMedia Studios and Networks Group, during a Fortune panel on Monday about the future of media and entertainment.
"What other studios have done is just kicked the can down the road, if you will, and kept pushing the movies off," Sarnoff added. "Or sold them to streamers or released them digitally on [premium video on demand]."
Sarnoff said that Warner's strategy is actually in the interest of the exhibitor industry, despite criticism from theater aficionados like Nolan and cinema chains themselves.
"We really wanted [the upcoming movies] to be seen on the big screen," she said. "We agree with the fact that the theaters are very, very important. We want to help keep the theaters in business. Giving them 17 movies in 2021, much of which I think will still be feeling the effects of COVID, we thought was a pretty good strategy in that regard."
AMC, the nation's largest theater chain, doesn't seem to agree with that sentiment, with CEO Adam Aron saying that WarnerMedia “intends to sacrifice a considerable portion of the profitability” in order to subsidize HBO Max.
“As for AMC, we will do all in our power to ensure that Warner does not do so at our expense," Aron said. "We will aggressively pursue economic terms that preserve our business."