The Academy is eventually gonna have to unclench and let go of that stick up their ass. Streaming isn't going away. And with ticket prices rising and audiences seeing less movies a year (meaning they're more likely to gravitate to big spectacles that streaming can't yet replicate), more and more prestige films are gonna end up on the internet in coming years. Mark my words. In a short time, Amazon, Netflix and Hulu will have become the new art house theaters.
What for? It is not so difficult to ensure that a movie qualifies. You only need to show it in one theatre after all.
If the streaming movies manage to reach Academy award quality, they can always do the minimum showing for an award chance.
The actual issue here is the budget. How much a streaming service spends on a movie is very limited because at the end of the day, they don't bring in any extra-money you can't just as well get with a well-made TV show. After all at best they draw in subscribers. Even for a middle-budget movie you need theatre money.
Because the genie is already out of the bottle. Streaming is here to stay and we're already in a situation where the tiny arthouse hits the Academy loves praising are not being watched in theaters. These sorts of films going direct to streaming will be the new normal in a few years, you can take that to the bank.
You're overestimating how much these movies make anyway. These days a lot of the prestige/awards bait flicks that get put out are made for a financial loss just given how niche the appeal is. Even Hidden Figures, probably one of the most popular award-winners in recent years, made far less than your average blockbuster.
Edited by comicwriter on Aug 25th 2018 at 10:48:11 AM
As I said, you run it in one theatre and it qualifies. If those movie makers want an Academy Award chance, that's all they have to do. There is no need to include streaming, just like there was no need to include TV movies back in the day.
And movies like Hidden figures might not have had the best box office run, but by running in theatres first they could collect some money before going to the next stage of monetarization,
You have to run it in a theater for at least two weeks. Depending on the size of the theater, that can cost anywhere from $500 to $5000 for one showing. On average, there are five showings a day. Multiply that by 7 days a week, for two weeks, and you're looking at a $35,000 to $350,000 price tag just to hit the bare minimum qualification for the Oscars.
If that's always the case, we'd have no Box-Office Bomb.
Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.Marvel is not interested in any "Popular Film" crap Oscar for Black Panther.
http://www.vulture.com/2018/08/marvel-doesnt-want-black-panther-for-oscars-popular-film.html
If the academy should considerate movies which go directly to streaming (and I guess TV...after all, what's the difference?) or not. I say no, because the requirement for being included can easily be meet even for a movie which heads to streaming, others consider the barrier to high and apparently expect that theatres will go the way of the dodo eventually.
The average cost for a movie ticket is $14. Assuming a two-week run, 5 showings a day, 750 capacity theater room, one would to have to guarantee at least 1500 viewers a day in order to make back the $350,000 to pay back the theater, and that's with zero profit.note
Edited by Tuckerscreator on Aug 26th 2018 at 2:59:02 AM
See, that's changing the argument from "it's easy to qualify for the Oscars, you just need to play in one theater" to "you can totally make your money back via free advertising from the nomination", which will only be a handful of films.
"You can afford to pay a theater thousands of dollars if you already had thousands to spend on your movie."
Edited by Tuckerscreator on Aug 26th 2018 at 4:06:37 AM

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