OTT vs Theatres, Future of Cinema ?

uNORTHodOX

Different OTT platforms have taken over household entertainment. What is the future of regular TV channels and cinema theatres ?

Netflix is struggling in many countries. Primevideo has almost penetrated all houses. Will people stop watching movies in regular TV channels and also in theatres ?

Varenya

Netflix is losing customers fast due to woke managers who decide on content. Leftist, Atheist attitude will not work in BIG businesses. Primevideo will stay as it has shopping+delivery benefits. Aha is limited to telugu. Many others like Voot etc struggle.

Virinchi

Hot Star is the future super star. It will penetrate more than Netflix and compete with Prime Video. Small players lose their importance. Sony apps will maintain their customers. People will stop watching regular TV channels in future. Regional Apps like Aaha take over. Nobody cares for a 24x7 news channel after they self destroyed user base with non-news.

Single theatres disappear in next 10-15 years with cinema getting divided into 2 categories : Big cinema for multiplex and small cinema for OTT. Few big names in industry who had seen rise after 2008 will fade away and next generation takes over till 2036.

Ravi.Varma

Now that many producers have decided not to sell OTT rights atleast for 50-60 days after theatrical release, will movies work in theatre ?

Recently Kamal Hasan's Vikram movie made 400+ crores from theatres within 4 weeks and going for OTT release by end of 5th week.

Virinchi Hot Star is the future super star. It will penetrate more than Netflix and compete with Prime Video.

As predicted Hotstar got OTT rights of this HIT movie and will reach more people now

Indus

Virinchi Hot Star is the future super star.

With jio cinema merging into hot star, this app will remain on top in India, as it has cricket, movies, web series etc

Quincy

Post-Covid, small movies struggled to make money in theatres. Now people want to spend for tickets only if its visually worth it. Else all other stories will go to OTT

uNORTHodOX

All BIG movies released in past 3-4 months in a hurry. Now nothing to play and with rains + schools, people are not coming to theatres. In South India, each state is estimated to be closing 300+ theatres this month. Unless ticket rates are reduced and outside snacks allowed, families will NOT come

Bakshi

What is future of Bollywood ? There are #BoycottBollywood gangs who target each big budget hindi movie and in past 1-2 years, almost all big productions have seen huge flops. Only few mid range and small budget movies made some money along with South Indian dubbed movies

Nivedita

Hindi cinema recovers when they get rid of 50+ aged actors and induce new blood. Also many big productions will end in this decade. End of Khan’s era

Koundinya

Nivedita sunny deol at 66, Rajinikanth at 73, Kamal Hassan at 68 got 400+ crores collection.
Agreed that khan era is almost over but next gen are not yet there

Virinchi

Karan Johar understood the wave and left social media. More hindi movies will be face boycott. They will be forced to include south actors or act in south movies for survival.

Single Theatres will have temporary glory for couple of years and then slowly fade away

SaSirEkha

Saturn Transit in next 5 years will destroy careers of existing stars who were ruling since past 20+ years.
They will be forgotten or sidelined only to guest/elder characters.
New generation will take over. People like Karthik Aryan, Vicky Kaushal, Aayushman Khurana can takeover. Producers and directors also will change

Bhavani

Many BIG Hindi movies flopped. PVR, Inox lost heavily in stock market but still producers claim that their stuff made hundreds of crores.

This shows the actual situation. South Indian movies took over with better and original content.

During next 2 years Saturn will force retire old stars and bring in new guys

Krishna

OTT will slowly destroy super heroes and create more content based cinema. A movie actor becoming chief minister of a state is now only a past tale !

Paanchajanya

Few movies are not getting theatres and directly releasing in OTT platforms.
South India will take time as people still have hero worship, like to celebrate cinema on big screen releases, lesser access to ott in villages..

Nivedita

600 crores fake expenditure for trash like Adipurush will stop once theatres vanish.
These useless chain of multiplexes like PVR, INOX keeps buying pathan, brahmastra etc and keep losing share value in market.
When all movies get only into OTT, then real content comes out

Pallavi

Entire Indian summer of 2024 wasted with no BIG releases due to bad planning.
Now no point in crying on people not coming to threatres

Koundinya

While Saturn in Aquarius since 18 months, few 80s, 90s stars vanished but surprisingly 81 years old Amitabh, 73 years old Rajinikanth, 68 years old Kamal , 66 years old Sunny Deol got big hits.
Very soon this ticket price hiking producers should bite dust and theatres selling popcorn at higher price than tickets should shut down

Roy

Indus Thats why Jiocinema removed their annual premier plan and kept only 1 month plans.
It will go down soon and merge into hotstar

Sunita

jiostar.com is launched and by next summer jiocinema app will shutdown, merging into disney + hotstar.
Pushpa - 2 movie will be releasing with hiked ticket prices.. Highest is Rs.710 in 3D multiplex and lowest and Rs.225 in 2D single screen !!
With these rates, more people will stop coming to threates