Warner Bros. Announced HBO Max Shift Over Fears of News Leaking | IndieWire

December 16, 2020 at 12:17 pm

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Fear of news leaks prompted the studio to announce the strategy on December 3 without consulting with filmmakers and filmmakers in advance. The decision not to notify the director that their film will be transferred to HBO Max has aroused the contempt of Christopher Nolan and director "Dune"

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"Sarnoff said that the studio announced the 2021 strategy before talking to its partners because they were worried that the news would leak. She said: "I hope we can have more time to communicate with partners and talent. "We are very conscious of paying a reasonable price for the movie's 31-day release price of HBO Max, and we think they are very happy to see how much effort we will put in to successfully release these movies. "

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The studio went live on December 7, and his position has doubled in the following week. The director said in an interview with The Washington Post this week: "This is related to what the French said. 

Did they buy the movie completely, was it because they bought the movie or paid for it? This is not a purely legal issue; it is also a moral issue. This is a question of partnership and cooperation. They didn't talk to those filmmakers. They did not consult them about their work plan. I think someone needs to point out that that is not the right way to treat those filmmakers. "

Even non-Warner Bros. directors like Judd Apatow have contended with Warner Bros., saying that it was “disrespectful” that the studio did not warn filmmakers that their films would switch to a mixed streaming distribution model. in

"Dune" director Denis Villeneuve (Denis Villeneuve) wrote for "Variety". He said that he discovered that when WarnerMedia announced the news on December 3, his sci-fi epic would move to HBO Max.

When talking about HBO Max’s decision, Villeneuve wrote: “I absolutely don’t like movies and the audience here.” “All this is closely related to the survival of Telecom Mammoth. Telecom Mammoth currently bears more than 150 billion US dollars. Astronomical numbers. Therefore, even if "Dune" is about movie theaters and audiences, AT&T is still about its own survival on Wall Street. So far, due to the failure of the release of HBO Max, AT&T has decided to sacrifice Warner Bros. The entire 2021 is desperately trying Attract the attention of the audience."

Legendary Entertainment contributes approximately 75% of the "Dune" production budget and the production cost of "Godzilla vs. Kong" and has not warned that these franchises will be transferred to HBO Max. According to reports the studio

Warner Bros. decided. The question that legendary executives worry about is whether converting these movies to streaming media will threaten the "long-term viability of the franchise."

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