Because the objective is not to build the thing. The objective is to follow the process to build the thing. Enter admin bloat. We build less and what we build costs more.
No — Arrow didn’t. The Shout one actually tracks closer to the 35mm print. Arrow looks like it’s been reinterpreted, with some creative choices layered on top of it. @ArrowFilmsVideo Oh yes, and the Shout version is a true 12-bit while Arrow's is only TV 10-bit.
Related, premium formats and assigned seating made this worse. If people can’t see the movie in their preferred format and in a decent seat, they won’t go.
The theatrical experience used to be the same, whether you went opening weekend or 10 weeks later.
Yes, Titanic took nine months to arrive on home video, but the movie was in theaters for ten months. It didn’t leave theaters until the month after the VHS release.
Following the release of Batman in 1989, big movies would take about six months on average to arrive on VHS.
Titanic was so astoundingly successful it took longer to arrive on VHS because people kept seeing it in theaters long after release. Its biggest day at the box office wasn’t on release in 1997, it was on February 14, 1998.
You ask, we deliver. From Mortal Kombat to Jackie Chan, a 4K Miike classic to an underrated Aussie hit - June 2026 is a big one. Which are you most excited for?
It was a watershed moment in pop culture. I’ll see if I can find the quote, but someone said strangers left the theater hugging each other because they knew what they had seen.