Matt Belloni
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And that is very different from the Warner Brothers HBO Max relationship where they would very much like us all to go to the theater first and then on home video if we want to watch it there, fine.
So how that shakes out is a key component here.
Two weeks is there.
Yeah.
And it would not because it's two weeks.
It would not get a national release because the theater chains will not play movies from Netflix if they don't get a proper theatrical release.
So one battle after another would have been a Netflix movie for most of people who saw.
What about the next Batman?
Yeah.
That's the thing is like Netflix is saying we will honor the theatrical release for these Warner's movies.
Maybe now, but maybe not after a couple of years.
The best thing for Netflix in the world would be is if there was a brand new A-list actor playing Batman movie that was only available on Netflix.
They would love that because everybody would watch it.
And it would become a phenomenon and something people talk about.
The whole knock on Netflix is that it's just a sea of slop and you don't remember what you actually watch.
They can't create franchises out of their content.
It's very difficult for them because these franchises we know as brands
for the most part, are theatrical movie experiences that we got up off our asses, went to the theater, saw there, and remember.
And there was marketing everywhere for these movies.
The rewatchables.