Los Angeles Public Library issued the following announcement on Nov. 6
It has now been seven months since the original wave of business closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This means it has been seven months since new films have been regularly released in movie theaters. That equals a lot of films that missed their original release date. As theaters around the country closed to protect public health, film production companies were faced with a tough decision. Should they put off the film release until all health orders had been lifted? Should they risk a small release at the few theaters that remained open? Or, should they release the film via a streaming service and get the movie into the hands of the public? A straight to streaming release means a substantial loss of income as digital rentals do not add up to the same revenue like ticket sales. However, indefinitely postponing a release leaves production companies with no return on their investment and risks the public possibly losing interest in the film. Further complicating their decision is the traditional rule that Academy Award nominees must have had a theatrical release. The film industry is faced with the possibility of monumental and possibly permanent changes to the way films are distributed from here on out. Today we are going to take a look at a few films adapted from books that decided to go the streaming route. Some of these films had a brief theatrical run before hightailing it to the internet and others skipped the theater entirely.
Original source can be found here.
Source: Los Angeles Public Library
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