release its 2021 slate simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max. That includes sprawling, special-effects-heavy tentpole pictures such as “The Suicide Squad” and “Dune,” as well as awards season hopefuls like “Judas and the Black Messiah” — all representing some $2 billion in production costs.
It’s a blow to movie theaters, which were already reeling from audiences’ skittishness about visiting multiplexes during a public health crisis, and a sign that the film business is being subsumed by the streaming revolution. “It’s shifting sands and changing times,” says David Permut, the Oscar-nominated producer of “Heartbreak Ridge.” “I still think theaters are the best way to see movies, but we’re an art form that depends on commerce, and.
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