Disney Attributes Black Widow's Same-Day Streaming Release To Box Office Hesitancy Eric Frederiksen You know the old saying--which came first, the movie theater, or the audience? That's the conundrum that studios like Disney are experiencing in our post-pandemic world, and Disney CEO Bob Chapek addressed that question in an interview at JP Morgan's Technology, Media, and Communications conference this week, via The Hollywood Reporter. "As we have seen with the domestic box office, and to some extent the international box office, we are seeing some hesitancy to return that wouldn't look anything like normal in 2019," Chapek said. This led to the company's decision to release the upcoming Marvel Studios film Black Widow to both theaters and streaming this July. "We didn't want to delay Black Widow again but we couldn't put all our eggs in the theatrical distribution basket," he said. Just like that line from Field of Dreams, "if you build it, they will come," Chapek says that Disney "needed to prime the pump" with big movies. Continue Reading at GameSpot https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

You know the old saying--which came first, the movie theater, or the audience? That's the conundrum that studios like Disney are experiencing in our post-pandemic world, and Disney CEO Bob Chapek addressed that question in an interview at JP Morgan's Technology, Media, and Communications conference this week, via The Hollywood Reporter.

"As we have seen with the domestic box office, and to some extent the international box office, we are seeing some hesitancy to return that wouldn't look anything like normal in 2019," Chapek said. This led to the company's decision to release the upcoming Marvel Studios film Black Widow to both theaters and streaming this July.

"We didn't want to delay Black Widow again but we couldn't put all our eggs in the theatrical distribution basket," he said. Just like that line from Field of Dreams, "if you build it, they will come," Chapek says that Disney "needed to prime the pump" with big movies.

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