I've been waiting SO LONG! Not being able to see it in theaters would be a let-down, but I can't take it any more!
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Apple May Be Seeking to Acquire Bond Film 'No Time to Die' for Apple TV+
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With delivery fee, that popcorn will be $20. Soda? $12. 🤣
It’s going to be a number of years before we can return to any kind of “normal”. It’s refreshing to see movies being released for home as an option. Movie theaters should definitely not be opened especially as the northern hemisphere heads into the winter months and the industry needs to adapt.
This reminds me. I think I will make popcorn for a new episode 90-Day Fiance!
It's no "No time to die' but you gotta work with what you got!
It's no "No time to die' but you gotta work with what you got!
Wouldn't be Sony I'd have thought. Maybe the got the go-ahead from EON Productions...
Any blockbuster released before this Christmas to theaters isn’t gonna make profit. Many of the theaters that opened for Tenent suffered more losses then had they stayed close
Greyhound cost $50 million to make; Apple paid $70 million. Production cost for No Time to Die was $250 million. The same multiple implies a purchase price of $350 million.
Gets really interesting if you start to think about additional rights that might be in the deal. Would Apple consider purchasing the entire franchise? Turning Bond into a GoT-style prestige TV series, exclusive to Apple TV+, could be very interesting.
Lucasfilm went for $4 billion...
Gets really interesting if you start to think about additional rights that might be in the deal. Would Apple consider purchasing the entire franchise? Turning Bond into a GoT-style prestige TV series, exclusive to Apple TV+, could be very interesting.
Lucasfilm went for $4 billion...
There was Bond music playing during the iPhone 12 mini introduction.
Apple should just buy MGM outright, not just for Bond which would be awesome, but mainly new Stargate series 
My two cents (and I may be wrong)...
BUT...that is the world wide gross. Would Apple buy it for the world or just certain markets (they can't stream it in China for instance which is about 10% of that $800M)? THEN...The studio only gets 53-60% of the gross (the rest goes to the movie theatre). So if we look at the US gross on Spectre (200M), they only have to get $120M for the movie to make the same amount for the studio. They can take lower than that as well as they no longer have to do the mass marketing campaign (which can cost as much as the movie) - as Apple would pay for that (and overhead is lower across the board when you aren't dealing with movie theatres, distribution, etc). AND...they can still sell it internationally and other markets. So the price will still be high...but from a pure business perspective the studios can sell a movie for much lower $ and still make close to the same amount.
THAT SAID...I agree. While I love watching movies at home on the big 4K with Atmos...it does not replace seeing a big budget blockbuster on a huge screen with an audience. Would Star Wars have been "Star Wars" if we had all jsut watched it on 27" color TVs in our living room? The communal experience / the larger than life sound stage / the visuals filling our entire eye line...a big movie in a big theatre is something special
I saw Tenet in the theatre last month. Don't waste your money.
Greyhound would have probably made <100M in the theater, 007 > 500M - use that as a multiplier and you're on to something ...
Maybe the Nov event will have more than AS Macs after all ...
If they don't do something BIG, & soon, almost ALL of us who have it for FREE will Cancel when our Extended Period is up !
Now their use of the Bond theme during the iPhone 12 mini unveiling makes a little more sense.
Surely, the Bond producers wouldn’t allow Apple to use the theme unless they paid boat loads of money and/or were in talks like this.
Surely, the Bond producers wouldn’t allow Apple to use the theme unless they paid boat loads of money and/or were in talks like this.
All the big tech companies have deep, deep pockets. The studio could literally pluck a number out of the air - Apple could pay it easily. I foresee many of the blockbusters currently delayed (Dune, WW84) finally landing on VOD with Apple, Netflix, Amazon etc.
sooo movie theater prices! full experience!
Logical step.
The film distributors can't get the film into the cinemas, so they have to find other ways before this film finally dusts in the archives. Any company needs a ROI.
The film distributors can't get the film into the cinemas, so they have to find other ways before this film finally dusts in the archives. Any company needs a ROI.
To do a little more back-of-the-envelope math, suppose Apple plans to have 10 theater-quality releases per year, with an average production cost of $100 million each. Then add in 15 prestige TV shows, figuring $70 million per season (which is what the early GoT seasons cost). Together, you're at about $2 billion in annual production cost.
If you assume revenue from Apple TV+ subscriptions works out to $3/person (when you factor in Apple One discounts and such), you need about 55 million subscribers to break even on ongoing production costs. Apple Music had 60 million subscribers in June 2019.