Jill Goldsmith Comcast chief financial officer Mike Cavanagh said the conglom was “pleased” with the weekend PVOD debut of Pete Davidson-starrer The King Of Staten Island – its latest film to go directly on-demand — and reiterated that while the company’s very eager for theaters to reopen it is likely the distribution model may have permanently changed for “certain types of titles.”“Long-term we will see how that later half of the year film dating turns out.
We’ve got to see when states and markets open back up and then theaters can open and what that means for theatrical releases, which we’d love to come back. [Meanwhile] “PVOD has been helpful in the near term,” Cavanagh said at a CSFB-hosted virtual media conference Tuesday. “We will be.
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