Good news: as early as next year, you may be able to
(legally) screen first-run new release motion pictures in your home at the same
time as movie theaters. The bad news? Price, of course. The films, according to
a new interview with Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes, will cost you $50 a pop.
A lot for a movie, right? Well, at $10 a ticket to see film
in theaters (actually, I think I paid like $13 the last time I saw one–but then,
that’s what I get for living in New York), it really depends on how many
friends you invite over.
The concept is really just that–Bewkes is floating his idea.
Odds are that movie theaters won’t be particularly enthusiastic about the
increased competition from the proposed on-demand services. According to ZDNet,
the company is also looking into the possibility of lengthening the amount of
time it takes for those videos to land on services like Netflix and Redbox.
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