Movie theaters and (most) streaming services are turning out to be fast friends, after all. Apple is set to spend $1 billion a year on movies that will land in cinemas before streaming. Amazon Studios, led by Jennifer Salke, is planning to release 12-15 movies theatrically every year. Launched on 3,507 screens, “Air” was the biggest release ever by a streamer – and it’s just the start. Companies like Amazon and Apple are sprinting into multiplexes, taking a distinctly different approach to the staunchly streaming-focused Netflix. Not only has that forecast fallen flat, the opposite is happening in some cases. Moviegoing was destined to die, they said. Not long ago, some were predicting more and more films would be diverted from theaters and sent straight into homes. Affleck, who directed and co-stars in “Air.” “If that’s the case, I think the business will really expand and go back to a broader theatrical model.”Īre corporations going liberal? Conservative pushback on the rise. “It should function as free advertising to create this halo effect which in turn creates more viewers on the service,” says Mr. When “Air” does arrive on Prime Video, the studio and its filmmakers expect an even better showing than if they hadn’t launched in theaters. And in its first two weeks in theaters, “Air” has been a hit.Īfter a strong five-day debut of $20.2 million – especially good for an adult-skewing drama – “Air” dipped only 47% in its second weekend. “Air,” about Nike’s pursuit of a shoe deal with Michael Jordan, went over so well with early audiences that Amazon, despite acquiring the film for its Prime Video streaming service, wanted to launch it in theaters. “It wasn’t what we expected when we first made the deal.” “They said, ‘What do you guys think about a theatrical release?’” Mr. “I want this country to be safe.”Īfter Ben Affleck and Matt Damon test screened their Nike drama “Air,” the film executives at Amazon Studios threw them a curveball. “I don’t want people to live the same as I did,” he told Ms. inspiring how he has been compelled to turn his adversity into action,” Ms. Now, he dreams of marrying his fiancée, Sara, and starting a family, as well as expanding his organization and establishing a home and school for the children he serves.“It is. He returned to high school to get his diploma. Louay returned home in 2017 to establish the Al-Khair Youth Team, a small organization whose volunteers, some of whom were orphaned by the war, provide food, activities, and basic lessons to youth. Louay is not bitter, she says.He is slowly rebuilding his life, and with it, his country. But remarkably, despite all he’s been through, Mr. how unfair the implications of war are on the most vulnerable,” she told me. The war orphaned 5 million Iraqis, killed about 200,000 civilians, displaced at least 4 million people, and devastated much of Iraq’s infrastructure, economy, and cultural heritage.The human cost is impossible to quantify, says Alannah Travers, who interviewed Mr. Louay told his story to Al Jazeera as part of a collection of profiles. When he was 11, the Islamic State group seized his town in Anbar province, forcing him to flee to Baghdad, stop his schooling, and sell corn from a street cart. troops killed his father, whose car was shot at en route to a medical appointment, and he was a toddler when American forces raided his house, looking for Al Qaeda fighters. Louay was born two months after the United States invaded Iraq in March 2003. troops – and deeply impacting a generation of Iraqis. aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln beneath a banner that declared “Mission Accomplished.” Of course, the war would drag on much longer, changing the lives of scores of U.S. Bush famously announced the end of major combat operations in Iraq aboard the U.S. Twenty years ago today, President George W.
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