How much time is a movie shown in the cinema before it's come out on DVD?!


Question: It really depends a lot on how well the movie does. Most of the time theaters will sign up with a two week commitment to the movie. then keep it longer as demand stays high. The theater would like a movie to keep playing a long time because of how they're paid. The first days/weeks the studio takes a huge percentage. 90-95% or summat like that. Then as time goes on the theater gets more and more of the gross. That's why popcorn and candy are so much. it's the only way they make any money.

After that, it again depends on many variables. Often movies are delayed to coincide with major holidays (Christmas or Thanksgiving) when people are likely to buy a movie. The bigger the movie, the longer it may take because of the time it takes to burn copies. If each one takes 5 minutes to finish, and you have to make 30,000,000 copies... think about it. Naturally they would make hundreds, if not thousands of copies at a time but figure the copy time, the packaging time, the shipping time and so on and it can be a while.


Answers: It really depends a lot on how well the movie does. Most of the time theaters will sign up with a two week commitment to the movie. then keep it longer as demand stays high. The theater would like a movie to keep playing a long time because of how they're paid. The first days/weeks the studio takes a huge percentage. 90-95% or summat like that. Then as time goes on the theater gets more and more of the gross. That's why popcorn and candy are so much. it's the only way they make any money.

After that, it again depends on many variables. Often movies are delayed to coincide with major holidays (Christmas or Thanksgiving) when people are likely to buy a movie. The bigger the movie, the longer it may take because of the time it takes to burn copies. If each one takes 5 minutes to finish, and you have to make 30,000,000 copies... think about it. Naturally they would make hundreds, if not thousands of copies at a time but figure the copy time, the packaging time, the shipping time and so on and it can be a while.

5 months. So if a film comes out in cinemas in January, it will be on DVD in May. UNLESS the producers want a specific release date.

It depends on how many tickets it sells during it's theatrical release. As long as it keeps selling, theaters keep showing it. If it tanks the first week-end out, expect it very soon.

Sometimes a movie is shown to test groups and does SO poorly, that it goes "direct to Video/DVD." Disney does that to lots of sequels because they're SO bad!



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