Remember that blood bath that was suppose to occur between two major studio animated family films during the first weekend of October?
Well, as reporter earlier this week Sony decided to go into talks with Amazon to sell off their Hotel Transylvania 4, and now MGM/United Artists Releasing is taking their sequel Addams Family 2 theatrical day-and-date on PVOD for $19.99. The release date remains Oct. 1.
All of this occurs due to the rising delta variant, the fact that kids are still unvaccinated and markets like NY and LA are requiring vax cards. When it comes to these family titles, you’ve got to give them an option to watch it where they feel comfortable, and that’s what studios are doing.
Greg Tiernan, Conrad Vernon and Laura Brousseau direct the sequel; the first animated feature grossed $203.7M WW.
It’s not the first time that MGM/UAR has gone theatrical-day-and-date with a movie during Covid. A year ago, they released Bill & Ted Face the Music via the same means and earned $3.4M domestic and around $32M in PVOD revenue, which put the film in the black as we first told you.
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However they release it, I’ll see it. In spite of the kiddie tone and theme (in the literary sense), the first ani ADDAMS movie captured the Chas Addams tone better than ANY of the other adaptations (all of which I’ve loved for decades) and probably worked more of his New Yorker cartoons than any of the others as well.
I love all the Addams films and can’t wait for the next!
Eh!
This looks very bad…
Now I hope in the next week or two Paramount decides to withdraw the Clifford the Big Red Dog movie from TBD (postponed from September 2021) theatrical release and send it directly to either Paramount Plus or Netflix or Amazon or PVOD!
You keep making the same comment on every thread. You must be really sad to want to watch a rubbish kid’s film.
Not all of use want the artsy fartsy films.