Disney, NBCUniversal, ViacomCBS unlikely to follow WarnerMedia's 2021 movie plan

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WarnerMedia's biggest legacy media streaming rivals will probably let HBO Max be the industry's guinea pig with its 2021 movie release strategy.

and NBCUniversal charge for their subscription streaming services, making the shift more palatable for WarnerMedia than its rivals.

In other words, 62 million American customers would have to agree to pay $10 per month to streaming services to just break even for the lost theatrical revenue. And Disney, ViacomCBS and NBCUniversal all charge less than $10 a month for their streaming services. Disney+ is $6.99 per month. ViacomCBS hasn't officially launched Paramount+ butto keep the price the same as CBS All Access — $5.99 per month with ads.

Disney has also already toyed with eliminating the window when it charged Disney+ subscribers an extra $30 to. But Disney CEO Bob Chapek has already said "Mulan" was a "one-off" and not a signal that the company was swapping to a new business model. Disney plans to release 21 movies in 2021, including several surefire blockbusters such as "Black Widow," Pixar's "Luca," and Peter Jackson's music documentary, "The Beatles: Get Back.

ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish made a point this week to emphasize certain movies are made to see in theaters.'s Global TMT conference. "Particularly you think of a film like Top Gun, it would be a shame to watch it on a mobile phone because it really is an incredible spectacle."

 

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I wish NBC/Comcast would take half of the content out of Peacock and put it on a new service and name it Universal+ and make Peacock like Pluto.

So they won't be releasing their 2021 theatrical slate simultaneously in theaters and on their streaming app? Guessing they aren't offering a 22% discount either like

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