Chanur
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Wait so you need to subscribe to Disney+ and pay 30 bucks to watch it?
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Disney+ Streaming Service
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Sanrith Descartes
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Compensates for all that 10$ candy and 20$ soda you ain't having to buy.
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Sanrith Descartes
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I could see this being a new trend. Instead of 4 or 5 kids going to the matinee they all get together at one house and split the cost of the movie. This has been the standard MO for PPV fights forever.
Also, imagine a Chuckee Cheese hosting a Mulan watch party.
Chanur
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Yeah fuck that noise. Not subscribing and then paying 30 bucks. Is that a rental or ownership after that?
Sanrith Descartes
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The Mouse has bills to pay, man. That is rental on top of subscription fee.
With ‘Mulan,’ Disney Tests Out Entirely New Early VOD Model
Disney will debut "Mulan" on Disney Plus for a premium price.
variety.com
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kegkilla
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The golden age of movie/TV content piracy is at its dawn. Hopefully everyone here hasn't let their accounts at private, secure torrent trackers fall into inactivity during the age of Netflix. I can guarantee you the mouse's lawyers are in the process of writing up cease and desist orders to the big public trackers as we speak.
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Chukzombi
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holy shit, its much much worse than anyone imagined.
www.marketwatch.com
The biggest cause of the downfall was the theme parks business freefalling to less than $1 billion in sales as most offerings were closed for the entire period because of the coronavirus. Sales in the theme-parks business plummeted to $983 million from $6.58 billion a year ago; analysts had been expecting $1.05 billion on average.
The direct-to-consumer and international division, which includes Disney+, reported revenue of $3.97 billion after recording sales of $3.86 billion a year ago. Analysts had expected $4.65 billion, according to FactSet. The movie business declined to $1.74 billion from $3.84 billion a year ago, while analysts expected $1.67 billion. Disney’s TV business reported revenue of $6.56 billion, down from $6.71 billion a year ago but higher than the average analyst estimate of $6.28 billion.
Disney shakes up streaming approach after losing nearly $5 billion due to pandemic
Walt Disney Co. is doubling down on streaming after reporting a quarterly loss of nearly $5 billion Tuesday amid a pandemic that has all but paralyzed its...
www.marketwatch.com
The biggest cause of the downfall was the theme parks business freefalling to less than $1 billion in sales as most offerings were closed for the entire period because of the coronavirus. Sales in the theme-parks business plummeted to $983 million from $6.58 billion a year ago; analysts had been expecting $1.05 billion on average.
The direct-to-consumer and international division, which includes Disney+, reported revenue of $3.97 billion after recording sales of $3.86 billion a year ago. Analysts had expected $4.65 billion, according to FactSet. The movie business declined to $1.74 billion from $3.84 billion a year ago, while analysts expected $1.67 billion. Disney’s TV business reported revenue of $6.56 billion, down from $6.71 billion a year ago but higher than the average analyst estimate of $6.28 billion.
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Woah woah woah! You nazi scum! I hope you're not culturally appropriating that movie! All children should submit a DNA test result before being allowed to watch that movie.
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I remember VCR and of course all the mom and pop rental places didnt become a thing until like 83? 84? Before that it was pretty niche thing and expensive as fuck. Especially since you could not rent movies and they cost like $60+ ea. We got our first VCR around that time and I remember pops going out and renting movies at some local place for the weekend.
Sanrith Descartes
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I remember when VHS recorders came out. That shit was like the wild west of copying. And of course none of us had any idea what signal degradation meant. We just thought the copy machine sucked.
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I guess it's because of his Joker depiction (which I don't entirely blame him for), but I have no idea why people shit on Leto. I think he's a solid actor, especially for sci-fi, weirdo type shit. I actually liked his character a lot in BR.
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Ya, I remember going to a local rental place in the mid 80s and purchasable copies of movies cost like $80 in the store. Electronic prices used to be jacked back then. I remember going to a Zales or Service Merchandise in the 80s and some shitty Atari 7600 game cost like $90. Mind you, this was -after- Nintendo had been released.
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I basically lived in a mom & pop video store in small-town America when I was a teen. They charge you $100 for failure to return because that's how much it cost for them to buy their rentable copy. Not returning or losing a copy really fucked their bottom line. They leased additional copies for $40-60 a piece that they had to return once said movie cycled out (who knows what those distributions companies did with VHS tapes that had been played a hundred times). Each copy had to be rented out a dozen times to produce a profit. They made most of their money renting from their extensive classic horror and children's movie selection - how I learned there were more than one Land Before Time movies (at the time). And this place also had a porn portfolio. VHS tapes of white trash fucking outside on dirty recliners in their dumpy yard. MMmm mmm. I do miss the experience of going to a movie rental place, but not how much it cost, having to return anything, rewinding tapes, driving anywhere, or dealing with other people.
Service Merchandise was where I went with my dad to pick up most of my Nintendo games. You had to "take a number", wait what felt like 30 minutes, eventually, they'd call you up to the register, you'd point at the inventory code in their fat catalog, they'd go in the back to get your copy, and it was a solid $60 for a copy of TENGEN's Afterburner. #WORTH That or Sears, where they had the Nintendo Demo unit with a playable version of Kung Fu on a limited timer.
Sears 1994 catalog for PC Software.
Service Merchandise was where I went with my dad to pick up most of my Nintendo games. You had to "take a number", wait what felt like 30 minutes, eventually, they'd call you up to the register, you'd point at the inventory code in their fat catalog, they'd go in the back to get your copy, and it was a solid $60 for a copy of TENGEN's Afterburner. #WORTH That or Sears, where they had the Nintendo Demo unit with a playable version of Kung Fu on a limited timer.
Sears 1994 catalog for PC Software.
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Chukzombi
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Up until the Blockbusters took over and put everyone else out of business. We had something called Palmer Video. It was pretty cool and they didn't screw you over on rentals. Course they didn't have the old b horror movies or pornos. But that's what the mom n pops were there for.
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We still have a rental place in town that took over the old Blockbuster building.
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