The Implications of Disney’s purchase of Fox’s film division
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This is a good, and worrying, thread:
If you’re wondering why you can’t see the new Terrence Malick in a halfway decent theater anywhere in NY, i’ve been told by theater managers it’s because Disney owns it now & are demanding exorbitant terms. It is unaffordable to most of the venues that would’ve happily shown it.— MZS (@mattzollerseitz) December 18, 2019
Basically Disney is treating the new Malick as if it is Star Wars or the Avengers, and as you can imagine, a lot of the theaters that would’ve eagerly shown it just can’t afford to do that. I don’t really understand it either, but that’s Disney.— MZS (@mattzollerseitz) December 18, 2019
Anyway, it was never going to be easy for people to see the new Malick outside of large/medium sized cities, but it sucks how recent changes in the exhibition business are making his best film in eight years so hard to book.— MZS (@mattzollerseitz) December 18, 2019
The article MZS references can be found here and is very much worth reading.
As Erik has said, one of the oddities of these “Marvel v. cinema” debates is that so many fans of Hollywood blockbusters are hypersensitive about anyone who suggests that Star Wars XCVLIIX: Han Solo Negotiates the Purchase of a Lightly Used Audi is not a priceless work of art is that they have decisively won. Theaters will become even more dominated by various franchises, and even streaming a lot of classic movies is likely to become more difficult.