Will we get a chance to see Fast & Furious 9, Black widow or the new version of Suicide squad in theaters? The de-escalation of restrictions due to the pandemic opens the doors for theaters to can count on more blockbusters and films with which to attract the public again. But these times of coronavirus have coincided with the rise of platforms streaming.
It’s not just about Netflix anymore, the major studios have set their sights on this new exhibition window, practically without intermediaries, which allows you to reach a much larger number of viewers and obtain great benefits in a few weeks. Online premieres have been salvation to release premieres that were being postponed, also a way to get money in times of so many economic losses.
And it happens when just four years ago the debate and the controversy jumped at the Cannes Film Festival with the inclusion of Netflix productions, The Meyerowitz Stories from Noah Baumbach O Okay of the Oscar winner Bong Joon-ho, films that in principle would not pass through the traditional distribution circuit in cinemas. Today having them and online premieres is an assumed reality. Even other services streaming like Apple+ or Amazon Prime Video bid to acquire large productions for huge amounts of money.
Be that as it may, directly on the small or on the big screen, in the post-covid era one of the sure changes we will have It will be that the period of time of exhibition between windows, from the cinemas to the various virtual platforms, will be shortened to 45 or 30 days. It may even be a week away (Netflix has already done it with some of its most anticipated productions) or we will see if only a weekend, as a preview on the big screen.
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Paramount, Sony y Universal. Paramount bets on cinemas with pending releases such as A quiet place 2, and later Top Gun: Maverick O Mission Impossible 7, and has already announced that its Paramount + service (available since March in the United States) would arrive 45 days later.
Universal will do the same with Fast & Furia 9, The infinite purge O Weather from M. Night Shyamalan. While Sony will do the same with titles like Peter Rabbit 2 this same summer, and No time to die (now with the rights in the hands of Amazon after the purchase of MGM) or Venom 2 They will hit theaters in early October.
Warner Bros. It caused a real earthquake when last December he announced that he would release all his films at the same time in theaters and on his HBO Max platform, and this included titles such as Matrix 4, Dune, Suicide squad O The Warren File: Forced By The Demon.
And so it has been so far in the United States, for example with Godzilla vs. Kong, Tom y jerry O Mortal Kombat, but not in Spain where its service is not yet available. streaming (although it could come by the end of the year).
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Disney. Before the outbreak of the pandemic, Disney dominated the box office thanks to his alliance with Marvel superheroes, his new adaptations of animation classics in real action, the saga Star Wars or Pixar productions. He led the market for premieres on the big screen and perhaps that is why he is now trying all possible options, and always counting on its brand new Disney + platform.
Mulán premiered last September directly on streaming, with Premium Access and an additional cost of 21.99 euros. Pixar production Soul on Christmas Day within the standard catalog, without additional price. And the same plans with Luca, next June 18. A decision that, by the way, has not sat very well with Pixar workers considering that they should be able to be seen before on the big screen, but above all because they consider that their work is devalued by being available in the Disney + bookstore at no additional cost.
As for the Indiana Jones-style adventure, mixing adventure and comedy, from Jungle Cruise with Emily Blunt Y Dwayne Johnson (and with a release postponed for a year), it will finally arrive at the end of July simultaneously in cinemas and streaming. The same strategy that the Cruella from Emma Stone and also Black widow.
Instead, Free Guy Y Shang-Chi and the legend of the ten ringsThey will hit theaters first and, 45 days later, Disney Plus.
CALENDAR OF NEXT RELEASES
Cruella. The live-action of the wicked 101 Dalmatians. It opens on May 28 in theaters and Disney + Through Premium Access and additional cost.
The Warren File: Forced By The Demon (Warner). About a demon possession case in the 1980s. June 4 in theaters.
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A quiet place 2 (Paramount). Emily Blunt also stars in the sequel, between horror thriller and science fiction. June 16 in theaters.
The other bodyguard 2 (Vertex cinema). Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson and Salma Hayek repeat with their formula of action and comedy. June 16 in theaters.
Fast & Furious 9 (Universal). Dom Toretto and his “family” trying to thwart a worldwide plot. July 2nd.
Black widow (Disney). Natasha Romanoff’s first solo adventure. July 9 in theaters and Disney + Through Premium Access and additional cost.
To full train! (Destination Asturias) – (Warner). A group of children will do their thing without the presence of the adults who were in their charge. July 9 in theaters.
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Space Jam: New Legends (Warner). Sequel that mixes basketball idols with the fantasy world of the Looney Tunes. July 16 in theaters.
Peter Rabbit 2: A la fuga (Sony). Animation and real image for the new adventures of the most peculiar family of rabbits. July 16 in theaters.
The infinite purge (Universal). One night a year of chaos and murder with impunity is no longer enough. July 16 in theaters.
Jungle Cruise (Disney). Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson in search of a mystical tree with healing powers. July 30 in theaters and Disney + Through Premium Access and additional cost.
Weather (Universal). In the new Shyamalan every minute that passes is fatal for a family that has reached a strange beach. July 30 in theaters.
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Suicide squad (Warner). James Gunn promises more humor with the antiheroes of DC Bloodsport, King Sharp, Harley Quinn and company. August 6 in theaters.
Free Guy (Disney). Ryan Reynolds is a non-playable video game character determined to rebel. August 13 in theaters.
Snake Eyes: El origen (Paramount). GI Joe spin-off with Úrsula Corberó playing the villain La Baronesa. August 20 in theaters.
Shang-Chi and the legend of the ten rings (Disney). Marvel’s first Asian superhero, starring Simu Liu. September 3 in theaters.
SPANISH RELEASES
Of the 105 million viewers who passed through theaters in 2019 to just 28.3 million in 2020. Which represents a decline of no less than 72 percent in ticket sales.
However, since the beginning of the state of alarm and restrictions, Spanish productions they are the ones who have ventured the most to premiere in theaters. One of them, There is only one father 2: The arrival of the mother-in-law from Santiago Segura It was the highest grossing last year with almost 13 million euros entered and 2.3 million viewers.
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And this summer Santiago Segura will premiere in July a new family comedy, To full train! (Destination Asturias). It will be joined by more comedies. Operation Shrimp with Natalia de Molina and Julián López (June 25), Derailed (July 23) with Ernesto Sevilla, Arturo Valls and again Julián López, the dramatic comedy set in the world of music The cover Directed by Secun de la Rosa (July 23), the comedy about swingers Where two fit (July 30) or Life is Life by Dani de la Torre (August 13). Also the intrigue of The snail house with Paz Vega and Javier Rey (June 11), the sci-fi thriller Of the directed by Mar Targarona (July 23) and the historical drama Karen (June 4).
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