Jod Diffie died due to Covid-19 complications

I heart radio special on Fox makes me wish I had the 'Rona.

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/summer-movies-fast-9-coronavirus-ghostbusters-afterlife-wonder-woman-1984-1203550310/

More moves from Universal. Minions already announced would move but now officially to July 2021, Sing 2 to Dec 2021, Wicked undated.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/03/coronavirus-movie-release-calendar

besides Sopranos and Game of Thrones - for those of us who don't watch HBO, what am I missing that I should get it for the next month?

Don't want to derail this thread but quick answer or two would be nice?

Oh, man...

Succession
Veep
Silicon Valley
Barry
and
The Wire

... are all incredible.

Also Watchmen, True Detective, and I liked His Dark Materials a lot.

I was only naming the free shows, as the others aren't part of this offer, but yeah, those are great too (though I never saw His Dark Materials).

Ah, gotcha, I hadn't checked the listings.

I liked His Dark Materials, story was a bit unclear in places but the art direction is phenomenal.

And I need to finish The Wire.

Well this doesn't sound good (though I admittedly only understood about half of it)...

https://www.thewrap.com/amcs-credit-rating-downgraded-by-sp-with-recovery-unlikely/

Sine poena nulla lex.

Exactly. Feels like the movie industry is on the verge of potential significant change, depending on how long this lasts.

did they ever upscale "the wire" into high def?

fig96 said:

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And I need to finish The Wire. by starting over from the pilot and watching all the way through.

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FIFY

A Netflix chain of theatres would be really interesting.
Local showings based on meta data on what everyone near you watched, etc.

Sine poena nulla lex.

I more meant that if there was a company out there that could/would do something interesting and innovative with theatres, it would be Netflix. I agree it wouldn't make financial sense to take on the burden.

Sine poena nulla lex.

Bunk Moreland said:

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fig96 said:

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And I need to finish The Wire. by starting over from the pilot and watching all the way through.

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FIFY

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Noted.

Yes, but those are still guesses and catered towards a small movie buff audience. Netflix has the data and the algorithms to know exactly what a larger audience in a specific area wants to see. For example, a certain amount of people in a town add a movie to their Netflix watchlist, and it gets screened in a nearby theatre, those people get a notification telling them of the showing, and they get first dibs on tickets. Most of the cost of the tickets would already by in their subscription. Netflix would be capable of catering to their audience like no other theatre ever. That's the way you make money these days with the saturation of entertainment by catering to a specific audience, but make that audience as large as you can.
This is all hypothetical because it probably won't happen, but Netflix has also been willing to spend money on their product, so they could do things like buy the rights to show Sunday Night Football or the NBA Finals. They would make a ton of money on beer and food every Sunday.
I think it would be a lot of fun to watch something like Stranger Things in a theatre every week. Netflix would be willing to break the mold and try things like that.
Edit to add that Amazon could go stuff like this too if they wanted.

Disney+ just added Onward to their platform.

jkag89 said:

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If you like history -

Band of Brothers
The Pacific
From the Earth to the Moon
Chernobyl
John Adams

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God Chernobyl would be a slog rn.