Disney's making 10 Star Wars and 10 Marvel TV shows

[pukunui]

This the first ones won't land until 2022.

The anime Visions series is slated for 2021.

Bad Batch says “coming soon”.

Andor is slated for 2022.

None of the others had dates that I saw.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

It might be a different building but it's likely owned by the same company. And those companies are in deep trouble.

Here's why these 7 U.S. mall owners, including Simon, are in trouble, S&P Global MI warns

As winter looms during the global health crisis, seven of America's mall owners face troubling days ahead, according to a new report from S&P Global.

www.cnbc.com

They are the landlord.

And as for the theaters, who are the tenants...

AMC, World's Largest Movie Theater Chain, Raises $100 Million Lifeline, But It Needs $750 Million To Survive Next Year

The firm is burning an average of $125 million in cash each month.

www.forbes.com

Warner Bros. shook the hell out of the industry last week with its streaming announcement.

Movie theaters looking for community support, $15 billion in federal relief

It’s been a box office bust this year, so some local movie theater owners are supporting a national effort to secure federal funding in an effort to save struggling cinemas.

www.wdrb.com

If the mall goes under, it takes the theater with it. There are only a handful of companies surviving: Amazon, Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, Lowe's. These are big box stores that are surviving by torpedoing brick-and-mortar, which is starting to shift to a fulfillment center model.

Stores move to the front and center fulfilling customers’ expectations - RetailWire

Over a year ago, Patricia Waldron asked in a RetailWire article if 2020 would be the year when retailers instituted supply chain improvements with an eye towards enhancing the customer experience. That's still the story today, but with much greater urgency. Do you see stores become the primary...

retailwire.com

You need foot traffic for traditional storefronts. Fulfillment centers don't provide any foot traffic. And without the foot traffic, you lose the storefronts. Without the storefronts, you lose rental income. Without rental income, you can't pay the mortgage on the property.

As COVID-19 shuts malls and hotels, their owners fall behind on loans, setting the stage for a changed landscape

Huge numbers of hotel and retail loans are going bad because of the coronavirus pandemic. Many of these properties will have to be repurposed.

www.usatoday.com

And then the mall goes under, taking the theater down.

This is the natural flowing consequence of overbuilding from the 90s.

I'll be honest with you...

Right now, I'm in my office, derping on the internet. Instead of suing people. Why? Because my clients, who are banks, don't want me suing people to collect what's due. Because they know that right now, those people don't have the money.

Something bad is coming. And a lot of stalwart chains might not survive it. Including movie theaters.

So, the one theater that is on the same city block as the mall might go under, or might not, depending on who buys the property if the mall goes under. Okay.

Meanwhile, the half dozen other theaters in town are not attached to any mall. At least one isn’t a tenant but owns it’s own property, and it’s parking lot full of solar, and the property rented by 5-6 smaller local businesses.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

There are movie theatres in malls? Wild

Last one I saw closed like 10 years ago. They’re all in their own building now, here, and most serve real food, if not beer and wine, and/or have fewer, higher quality, seats.

Even without the lockdown, the mall closest to me gets more foot traffic from raccoons than from people.

Whereas in my city, the one mall that has always been here is still (relatively) poppin even with the lockdown, between the target and the restaurants and the shops that can be accessed from outside. Before the new stay at home order, it was almost back to normal. Scarily so.

 

[Wolfram stout]

I happen to agree.

Some people get burned out on the MCU (and I can't blame them). To recap- the MCU is 23 movies. Since 2007.

A series/season of American TV is 23 episodes (standard broadcast) and between 8 and 13 episodes of "premium" or "prestige" TV.

If it's all done well, that's great! I won't look a gift horse in the mouth; but there can be too much of a good thing, and you don't want to oversaturate the market.

23 movies over 13 years? How many horror movies have come out in that time? Rom-Coms?
How many hours has Grey's Anatomy gone?

Just don't see how this is over saturation.

 

[Aeson]

Don't screw up Rogue Squadron. Don't screw up Rogue Squadron. Don't screw up Rogue Squadron. Don't screw up Rogue Squadron. Don't screw up Rogue Squadron. Don't screw up Rogue Squadron. In the name of the Celestial Teapot, Don't screw up Rogue Squadron.

 

[Mercurius]

I really hope we get to hear Hayden whine, "I hate you!" within the Vader costume.

On a serious note, I think this is all the sign of times, which was accelerated by COVID: movie theaters are dying. Well, at least not thriving. I would expect that major film releases will eventually be direct to stream, with perhaps HBO and others having "premium" options. To be honest, I'm surprised HBO isn't charging extra for WW 1984.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

I really hope we get to hear Hayden whine, "I hate you!" within the Vader costume.

On a serious note, I think this is all the sign of times, which was accelerated by COVID: movie theaters are dying. Well, at least not thriving. I would expect that major film releases will eventually be direct to stream, with perhaps HBO and others having "premium" options. To be honest, I'm surprised HBO isn't charging extra for WW 1984.

They are, sort of. All available trial offers will expire before WW84 becomes available. So all those people watching for free, will have to pay something instead.

 

[Eltab]

I also don't see what Kenobi / Vader are supposed to be doing while Luke / Leia grow up. Vader can track leads for a while. This new "Ben" guy can mess with Imperial activity nearby, until he draws attention to himself and has to go take a deep-in-the-wilderness trip. But they can never meet, barely get near to it. "I sense something. Something I haven't felt since..."
Eventually the Emperor sends Vader to deal with some other problem, and the series naturally runs out of gas.

 

[Eltab]

P. S. If Disney releases too much at once, the Sequel Trilogy scriptwriters can send in notes "Look, you have a bunch of job slots to fill and we have experience writing those kinds of stories!"

 

[Aeson]

Kenobi is only supposed to be a limited series. Probably no more than 8 or 10 episodes if that many. Hopefully it won't run out of gas that quickly. It'll be the Heroes of Star Wars if it did.