…do… do they not get a choice in the matter?
Well they do, but when studios make films, they like to look at what’s popular and what’s making money, so they have a good idea where to go with it. If a whole bunch of people (e.g the Synder fandom) pressure a studio (WB for this example) to release a cut of movie that they (the studio) could possibly make more money off of than they did previously and also please their audience, then the studios are going to do it.
Who and who?
Now expand it to other movies! 
That’ll get the punters back in through the doors. 
Hoyts is reportedly up for sale.
A flashback to the premiere of Star Wars in Australia on 27 October 1977 at the Hoyts Entertainment Centre in George St, Sydney. It appears that Hoyts in Sydney had Star Wars exclusively, which was probably because 20th Century Fox owned Hoyts. The Sydney Morning Herald critic hated the movie!
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Here is the article in today’s Australian Financial Review which Variety quoted from.
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What Variety first thought about ‘Star Wars’ in 1977
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Village Cinemas has opened its newest complex at M-City, an apartment complex with a mid-size shopping centre at Clayton in Melbourne’s south east. Its target customers are mainly students who study at nearby Monash University as well as residents in nearby suburbs of Clayton, Mulgrave and Springvale, filling in the gap between Village’s cinemas at Southland and Glen Waverley.
The 94th Annual Academy Awards have been scheduled for Sunday, March 27 next year.
Has anyone seen Cruella yet? The previews look great. If so, any good?
Just one thing, It would’ve been great if Glenn Close reprised the role as Cruella but that’s just me.
The way they’ve written it, I don’t think that was a possibility.
It’s an origin story so it’s set decades earlier.
The box office figures were affected by the current COVID lockdown which forced cinemas across Victoria to close. Cinema Nova CEO Kristian Connelly blamed the lockdown on sluggish rollout of the COVID vaccines.
As mentioned on the Studio 10 thread, Russell Crowe was at the announcement of the new Pacific Bay resort and movie studios at Coffs Harbour today. It will cater for small to medium-sized movie productions.
The next Transformer movie will be called Rise of the Beasts. It will be released in cinemas a year from now. Filming is now underway in Montreal, Canada (standing in for New York) and will move to Peru later.
At what point do you just release to digital?
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Isn’t MGM owned by Amazon, or hasn’t that happened yet?
Could just release it on Prime Video, people will access it by other means if it’s released elsewhere and not in Australia.
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