We almost wanted to hang a “yet” on the end of this post’s title.
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While Netflix, as announced yesterday, acquiesced to Warner’s delay window demands, Redbox and Blockbuster seem prepared to fight on.
Redbox released the following statement to clear up any confusion on its current agreement with Warner:
“The current agreement Coinstar has with Warner Bros. is to receive movie titles 28-days after their release. No revised agreements are in place,”
Marc Lumpkin, a spokesperson for Blockbuster parent Dish, similarly refuted any idea that the company’s new release window with Warner had lengthened:
“Our Blockbuster customers enjoy watching movies day and date and we plan to continue offering that service,”
The behind-the-scenes negotiating that must have been taking place between Warner executives and Redbox and Blockbuster must have been something to behold. It remains to be seen if the two renters can hold out against Warner’s desires to lengthen the delay windows on new releases to movie rental companies. How much of a fight do you think the two holdouts will put up?
(via The Wrap)
Redbox and Blockbuster will ultimately lose this fight. The real question is what will they be able to get from Warner in return?
I believe buying sideways on warner will be on the easy side. Who’s to say redbox won’t make more of a concerted effort to hurt warner’s sell through on specific titles this time. That’ll get warner’s attention. They could free code specific warner titles for the 1st week to take even more punch out of sell through on films they care about. All they have to do is show them they can hurt them back if they choose to.
The great irony is that if warner doesn’t think redbox can hit them back then why are they trying for all these delays in the first place?
@FLoN
…why are they trying for all these delays in the first place?
Maybe there is pressure from the retail channel? Walmart, Target et.al.
Like Bart says. They’d love to push redbox rentals to VOD rentals and some physical buys. Guys that run the home video divisions of the studios thought the DVD explosion would continue. Now they know it was a once in a generation kind of thing.
WB’s analysts claim that it is the rentals that are hurting their sales. By staggering the rental dates, they think people will be more inclined to purchase.
(Untrue to us consumers, I know.)
..And now that WB has their own rental service, UltraViolet, (available with Purchasing their titles) they are attempting to block the competition until they can get it to take off. (because so far, it has been a huge failure)
Until WB brings back quality and dumps UV, I WILL NOT be purchasing.
Ultraviolet = UltraFail
Movie studios can play hardball if they want… They can choose to hurt the only business models actually helping them earn money again and then realize how quickly (and easily) people go back to just downloading stuff for free :)
Well, I will still rent 2 or 3 Redbox movies this year assuming some good ones come out. Someone mentioned “The help” and “Midnight in Paris” If these were good movies then I might not even rent 2 or 3. Once again, Netflix has so many, many movies and tv shows I have never seen that I never have to go to theaters any more. Red Box once (Cowboys and Aliens), not worth the $1.30.
P.S. I finally finished Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. There was only one very short part that was interesting. I still don’t know what the story was. I should not have bought it but it was $2.50 so I said what the heck!
The Movie people can hold the crap movies for 60 days for all I care. 95% of them are crap to start with. I do not buy much DVDs any more. I can see them when they come out at BlockBuster. I have a two out at a time deal. Are I can hit Red Box. And I have NetFlix all you can watch online. If the Movie people want to hold things up. Fine by me! In the end I still get to see it. And I will NOT go to the crap show to see the trash that is out. I have my Home Theater set up. And can watch all I want here at home. And get good Pop Corn, good Coke. And not have to put up with out of control kids are people! And pay up the Butt to get it.. Home is where it is at!
I’m still trying to figure out what argument the movie studios were able to use to win the argument on whether redbox and competing companies have to obey any demands AT ALL on how long to wait. Isn’t there a law and president set already concerning what rental business are able to do, and it gives them the freedom to rent out anything that has already been publicly released on DVD?
I know they lost the lawsuit somehow, but it seems pretty shady to me when the law seems pretty clear (and was written specifically for this purpose…)
They did not lose the lawsuite. Redbox dropped out. The law could still be challenged.
It has nothing to do with any law. It’s a matter of contract negotiation. Warner wants to change the terms of the distribution contracts. Netflix gave in, Redbox and Blockbuster haven’t.
If Redbox can rent movies for a dollar with all there overhead then why don’t video on demand follow suit? That would put all the competition out of business. Then they can raise prices
Because people would stop going to the theater, stop buying DVDs and pay TV guys like showtime and HBO wouldn’t offer much if anything to the studios for their movies. In a sentence the whole studio ecosystem would collapse.
I love Woody Allen, so already I’m biased. But even I will admit that he’s been spotty for the last…my God!…twenty years or so. “Curse Of The Jade Scorpion” will forever be his lowest moment, and in his later phase “Match Point” and “Vickie Christina Barcelona” remain the highlights. Well, we can add another to that list. By no means is this movie an “Annie Hall” or a “Manhattan”, let alone a “Husbands and Wives”. But if you’ve been bored by what you’ve been seeing at the Multiplexes lately, if you think “The Hang-Over 2” sucked and you’ve despaired that the romantic comedy is dead…than I’m delighted to tell you to go see this movie right now. See it on a big screen! It’s gorgeous to look at, fun to watch, romantic, sweet, smart, and pleasantly old-fashioned. This movie is not a masterpiece, and yet I’m giving it 10/10 because it was perfect for what it was — a modest pleasure that left me in a great mood, and even a little inspired.
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