![]() In other words, imagine how many episodes of The Tomorrow War Amazon might have received had it committed to a series – versus simply making a sequel every two or three years, with budgets likely north of $200 million per film.īut would Chris Pratt have agreed to do an episodic series, even with a stratospheric budget like The Lord of the Rings?Īs Hollywood scrambles for titles worthy of “winning the weekend bragging rights” – deeper debates are sure to be happening about how best each streamer spends their treasure chest for content – and whether there’s enough money to spend on big budget movies and big budget series.īlack Widow, Marvel’s much-anticipated Scarlett Johansson-starring MCU spin-off, is expected to rule the box-office this weekend. With every streamer promising both Wall Street and their subscribers “at least one original movie a month,” greater scrutiny will fall on just how much streamers are paying for films, and whether that cash is better spent on series versus movies with sequels. It’s no secret that Amazon is paying close to $1 billion for the first episodic season’s streaming adaptation of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, a title that less than 20 years ago (2004) won the Best Picture Oscar (among many others) for Peter Jackson’s film adaptation. ![]() Steven Spielberg, arguably the most successful filmmaker of all time, and once a major critic of streaming (comparing it to making “movies for TV”) just announced a giant Netflix deal, showing that major holdouts have changed their minds, realizing streaming, for better or worse, is likely not only here to stay, but the very future of entertainment. Now it seems there’s no star too big to attract, nor a budget too large, to satisfy a streamer’s appetite (save, perhaps, for Mr. ![]() Superstar filmmakers and actors rejected digital content as just another version of premium cable, but less established. It wasn’t long ago that certain A-list movie stars and A-list directors shunned the temptation of streaming. You may have to select a menu option or click a button.Tom Cruise won’t be reprising the title role this Amazon-based streaming effort will be led by Alan Ritchson, of DC’s Titans fame. Follow the instructions for disabling the ad blocker on the site you’re viewing.You may have more than one ad-blocker installed. ![]() You’ll usually find this icon in the upper right-hand corner of your screen. Click the icon of the ad-blocker extension installed on your browser.When it turns gray, click the refresh icon that has appeared next to it or click the button below to continue.Click on the large blue power icon at the top.Click the UBlock Origin icon in the browser extension area in the upper right-hand corner.It will turn gray and the text above will go from “ON” to “ OFF”. Click on the “ Ad-Blocking” button at the bottom.Click the Ghostery icon in the browser extension area in the upper right-hand corner.Switch off the toggle to turn it from “ Enabled on this site” to “ Disabled on this site”.Click the AdBlocker Ultimate icon in the browser extension area in the upper right-hand corner.“ Block ads on – This website” switch off the toggle to turn it from blue to gray.Click the AdBlock Plus icon in the browser extension area in the upper right-hand corner.Refresh the page or click the button below to continue.Under “ Pause on this site” click “ Always”.Click the AdBlock icon in the browser extension area in the upper right-hand corner.Adblock Adblock Plus Adblocker Ultimate Ghostery uBlock Origin Others
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