Paramount DVDs and Blu-rays Coming Too Fast For Theater Owners

[Attebery]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/...ec348a084fee30

[Dack]

Paramount should keep it up.

[CaptainCanuck]

3 months is way long enough. Most movies do all their moneymaking in the first 2 weeks and are then forgotten until dvd release.
Dollar theatres are likely the ones who would complain most but i'm not sure there are even many of them around anymore.

[project-blu]

agreed w/ canuck. they often still have titles that have been out on dvd for 1-2 weeks. i could care less about the success of dollar theaters when considering box office revenue for films.

[skycracksopen]

i yearn for the day the movies are released for home theater the same day as normal theater

but i doubt that day will come in my lifetime

[Z0d]

That would be the last day I ever stepped foot inside a theater. Seriously considering it as it is.

[Rayzor77]

All Paramount needs to do is come out with some Christmas themed movie, which of course like every other Christmas movie won't come out on Dvd/Blu-Ray until the following year, thus the theatre owners can have over 300 days to keep milking it for all they can.

[SilentBob]

Well i work at a movie theater (12 plex) and i think the 3 month period is perfect. Sure we aren't an AMC, but how much do the (and lets face it) 2nd run theaters really making off a 3 month old movie. They are the ones that are mad and not really the big theaters i think. So as a theater worker i say "Keep up the good work Paramount"

[Southpaw]

Theater owners need to lighten up. Or they need to be reminded that Paramount's Star Trek will be 6+ months from opening to BD/DVD release. Same goes for Terminator Salvation, Night at the Museum 2 and several other titles. Obv they aren't all Paramount titles but for every 3 month lag time, there is a 5 or 6 month lag time release as well.

[Mark Booth]

The 2nd run theater owners need to give the consumer a REASON to come see the movie in their theater. I don't care if the movie doesn't hit DVD/Blu until a year after initial theatrical release, I'm still not going to see it at a 2nd run theater. Why? Because they are usually crappy theaters with terrible standards and uncomfortable (and not so clean) seats.

The 2nd run theater owners need to make their theater an experience that's better than I can get at home. Otherwise, close your doors and put yourself out of your misery now.

BTW, the two Paramount movies in question in the article (GI Joe and The Goods)... I won't waste my time watching them on DVD or Blu. So, there's not a chance I'd go to see them in a 2nd run movie house.

Mark

[Dr Kain]

Personally, I think they should sell the movie on DVD and Blu-Ray at the theaters. You get your choice of paying full SRP for it, or if you go see the movie on the big screen, you get half of your ticket price off of the DVD/BR. I would have been more than willing to get say Where the Wild Things Are on Blu-Ray this past Friday right after seeing it.

[Grubert]

They don't say that Star Trek (also from Paramount) opened in theaters in May and we're not seeing a disc of that before bloody November. That's six months.

[Bouncy X]

people who wanna see a movie in a theater will go to a theater...regardless of how fast it hits dvd. these people are just morons worrying for nothing.

because i'm sorry, i dont care how awesome your home theater is, it'll NEVER beat seeing it in theaters or even be the same. unless of course you're rich and build your own theater but how many of us does that count? lol

[RBBrittain]

Is there some reason the Paramount logo is upside down on this article?

[tjubb]

maybe I'm commenting before thinking about this too too much but if theaters have a constant stream of movies hitting the big screen then what's the problem? A majority of people going to see a movie see it in the first few weeks of a run, not on the back end of the run. So if GI Joe is in theaters for 90 days as opposed to 120 days, a new movie will takes it's place and thus more butts in the seats than what GI Joe would have had near the end of its run.

Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know the nuances of running a theater. Just my thoughts.