Chibudollar:
Lol, guys seen this?

Kaycee7:
Weekend Watch List

- Ambulance (2022)

- Bubble (2022)

Baddestguyp:
been getting negative reviews for Bubble...
I haven't seen a single positive review...all everyone says is it has great animation but bad plot

Baddestguyp:
I only see 2 sensible movies there...
Oppenheimer and Mission Impossible

Chibudollar:
Lol, guys seen this?

Kaycee7:
How that one take concern me?

VerifiedStalin:
abdule..ez1 (IngeniousL..eez), thoughts?

IngeniousLeez:


Yep. I'm aware of these. What do you want me to point out or talk about?
Which services you want my insight on?

VerifiedStalin:
"Avatar: The Way Of Water" official images.

GloriousGbola:


Terminator 2 theme intensifies

VerifiedStalin:


Pretty surprised by HBO Max and Paramount+'s relative lack of presence in Europe, especially when compared to Disney+. I know they distribute their products through local streaming services, but it's a bad deal because you'd have to subscribe to the local services to access them, which means you'd have to accept the additional fees these local services charge.

Meanwhile, Disney+ is easily accessible and does not necessitate the use of a third-party service or an additional subscription fee.

VerifiedStalin:


It's James Cameron,
The most daring explorer,
No budget is too steep, and no sea is too deep.
Who's that?
It's him, James Cameron!


Avatar 1 has better CGI than everything that is released since then, even 13 years later. If Avatar 2 raises the bar, it will be magnificent.

GloriousGbola:


When you consider that like George Miller, Cameron waited over a decade for this, rather than the rapid sequels that butchered the matrix franchise, I think we should all be hyped.

Of course we are all a little scared that it just might somehow be a flop,but it is James Cameron the man whose sequels (aliens, t2) have never been improved upon.

IngeniousLeez:
Now we go hear word.

The peeps screaming "hey WB moving the Flash and Aquaman 2 is bad. They're lying. Not CGI related."

Now make dem shut up.

MJBOLT:

found it at last

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mSMUZ_aC14

Gmajor:
But marvel doesn't have a culture of moving release date

abduleez1:
HBOMax plans to be available in 190 countries by 2025. So till then those regions will have to make do with the status quo. New CEO David Zaslav during earnings call this past week insinuated that HBOMax is second in list of priorities now and the most important is re-establishing the theatrical market place. This is in stark contrast to the strategic plans of ex chief Jason Kilar strong push for streaming content, expansion and spending.

He said the studio will continue to use and hand out streaming distribution deals with local distributors. A plan I see as pretty dumb and annoying. It was the problem in the first place. Seems he secretly plans to bolster Discovery+ dunno. Also the plan to combine both libraries into one mega streamer is still unclear how and when they plan to do that.

WarnerMedia's constant change in leadership every 3 years does some significant damage to overall expansion plans. Each leader seems to have a different idea about how content distribution should be. Whether he meant existing deals being maintained or entering new ones remains to be seen.
It's still early days so we don't know yet the full picture. HBOMax is currently available in 61 territories and Global Subscriber count of 76.8 million. It has the 3rd highest Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) of $11.24; currently the 3rd highest streamer by subscriber numbers with far lesser global footprint. So it can sit pretty and wait out it's time. It knows it's audience pull and quality of content in comparison to the others.
So it's pretty much wait and see at the moment.

abduleez1:
The main problems with HBOMax global rollout is that it has various complicated content licensing deals with various local networks across the globe. and the vast majority of them is still in effect and is with a contract they can't do anything than to bid their time till when the contract expires. Also part of the problem is that HBOMax has no plans at the moment to launch in some places eg Australia, New Zealand and Middle Africa.

If you look closely at the European availability maps for both HBOMax and Disney+ you'll notice that there's not much difference in both except for Disney's availability in Western Europe. That's where HBOMax experience the biggest expansion issues.
Because of those long term contracts HBOMax won't be able to launch in those countries till 2025 except they buy out the contract. Countries like Italy, Germany, UK and Ireland, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Lichtenstein and France. Sky will not easily relinquish it's 4 regions of jurisdiction. The funny thing is these countries are where the biggest growths are and where the money at in the region. Eastern Europe and the Nordics has been HBOMax significant launch in Europe.

Although France deal expires this year and will be launched along with the Asia Pacific region (SE Asia, India, Korea). So about a total of additional 11 countries later this year. The larger part of Asia, The Middle East and Africa ain't in plans presently.

As for Australia and NZ that one most likely comes up In 2025. Same as Canada's Crave deal that expires 2025. For Africa, HBO has a deal with DSTV's Showmax for 2022 (and prolly beyond), so it's most likely 2025 launch.


As for Paramount+ I just take it their weak content and fine-tuning of the Streaming app and expansion in the US and Canada is the paramount strategy before thinking of being a global player. They aren't taken seriously in its domestic home and it'll definitely receive competition from local players asides from expansionist problems it'll need to fend off from global rivals. If anything, expanding subscriber numbers FIRST in Latin America is a saner approach than jumping into Europe straight up.

VerifiedStalin:


Excellent analysis as always.

I'm based in South Africa, and I have to say, the country is a real battleground because it is an emerging market where people have only recently discovered the convenience of streaming. Every school sport is streamed live, and there are numerous international partners seeking to break into the DSTV (Multichoice) dominated market.

I have DSTV Premium and Showmax, but I'll reconsider my subscriptions once Disney+ is launched here next month. Evidently, all of the content pulled from DSTV, Netflix, and Showmax will be available on Disney+, as a result, DSTV will be virtually useless to me.

Good times.

abduleez1:


I anxiously await the days when that DSTV's chokehold of the continent is broken. That network increasingly fleece Africans off hard-earned money. The battle will be intense in the coming years leading to 2025.

If HBOMax or Disney+ were to be available in Nigeria, I'll easily switch full-scale to streaming. I don't see cable in my plans anyways as I ain't raising family yet.

Nickshrapnel:
Nigerians are the ones who should let go of DSTV, their programming is thrash and expensive. Even DSTV knows their days are numbered that’s why they introduced showmax.

I’d rather pay 20k for data and 4k for Netflix than pay 12k for DSTV and still buy fuel to watch the same damn tv.

oyaskii:
I focused mainly on shows in April...started some... finish some while seeing some movies in between.


My top 3 from April were
The Batman
Severance/ "The Dropout (A tie )
Ambulance

abduleez1:


Africa looks like the afterthought in the streaming business. But wait till when they oversaturate Europe and SE Asia, you'll see how they scramble for Africa's high growth rate market. Of course, the focus being Nigeria, SA, Kenya and North Africa.

Once internet and broadband penetration deepens and becomes widespread in Africa, you'll see the full-scale move to streaming. Especially when data prices drops down. Netflix is already taking Nollywood seriously.

I anxiously await the days when that DSTV's chokehold of the continent is broken. That network increasingly fleece Africans off hard-earned money. The battle will be intense in the coming years leading to 2025.

If HBOMax or Disney+ were to be available in Nigeria, I'll easily switch full-scale to streaming. I don't see cable in my plans anyways as I ain't raising family yet.