
Did a $200M Direct-to-Streaming Movie Ever Make Sense?
The Town with Matthew Belloni
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Is There a Middle Ground?
To say that no movie that costs more than 30 or forty million dollars tat can work on streaming is just writing off that entire category of movie. I think that's dumb. Most people only go to the theatre three or four times a year, and they want to watch new movies in between that. So what do they need? They need streaming services to provide them at home. And you know, if neflik had chosen to put the knives out sequel into theatres for a month before it debuse on streaming in december, i think they would have made a couple of hundred million dollars and then had a big hit on streaming.
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