Statesman -
Consumers long ago switched their shopping habits to the Internet, so that now most don't hesitate to buy cameras, TVs, books, appliances, cars, clothing, even foreclosed homes online. There appears to be no product that shoppers don't prefer to buy with the click of a mouse.
Shaz from FL writes: "OpenAI's "Sora" is concerning for many reasons, the future of filmmaking being one of them."
Academy Award-winning director Alexander Payne stands out as one of my favourite directors who captures the pain, family struggle, friendship, and life itself in a unique but powerful and compelling way, The Holdovers is no different
The biggest night of the year dedicated to television, The Emmys, made it's long awaited return this month. Several popular shows enjoyed several nominations such as Succession, Better Call Saul and The Last of Us
I will be the first to admit that I love Netflix and I love streaming movies. Having both Netflix and PSN Movies on my PS3 is like the best thing in the world. While I hate streaming games, movies are an entirely differnt story. The only issues is price, who wants to pay 6 bucks to stream an HD movie for 24 hours?
The thing though, with good movies Ill actually go out and buy them. Ill get the Blu-ray release the day it comes out. Zombieland, Inception, The Dark Knight etc...I own the good quality movies. So all I'm saying is the creative guys are obviously not complaining since there movies are being purchased. And they cant blame home sales, theaters are still doing well, and its not like they are not making money off rentals.
We've seen this coming for a while, and it isn't exactly new. People started seeing the downfall of store rentals when Movie Gallery/Hollywood Videos filed it's first bankruptcy. Then on its second when they closed all stores, people merely wondered when Blockbuster would follow. Now that it has as well, it's only a matter of time. But I think Redbox had quite a bit to do with it too, and wasn't solely Netflix.