Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily for August 16th 2018 on today's episode

we're going to be talking about the latest film and TV news this is slash film senior

writer Ben Pearson and joining me on today's show our weekend editor Brad Omen. Hey that's me and writers

why trend buoy. Hey everyone and Chris Evangelista. Hi. All right guys so

let's jump right into the news today. H.T. why don't you tell us about what Amazon is intending to do their latest play for theatrical dominance?

So Amazon is vying with other competitors to acquire landmark theaters, which is the independent movie focus theater chain, which has more than 50 locations across the country.

So this would allow Amazon to basically get footing into the

brick and mortar industry in Hollywood after it has expanded its original

content game with Amazon Studios through TV and movies.

And this is actually possible because of a recent Department of Justice announcement that

it plans to review the antitrust rules that bar studios

from owning theaters for the past 70 years. So this rule may actually no longer be in play once Amazon or whoever does acquire Landmark

theaters is able to make this purchase.

Okay so this is Amazon is not the only streaming service that is interested in, you know, sort of buying up theater

change.

Netflix is also wanting to purchase and own their own theaters as well.

So Peter Sorretta, even though he's not able to join us today, was sort of theorizing

that we might be entering like a war of these streaming services as they attempt to go physical and

you know we've talked a lot about how Netflix doesn't tend to give their movies a theatrical release

at least not their original films and not that often,

whereas Amazon on the other hand is very much sort of aligned with the theatrical distribution

method and then their content goes to the Amazon streaming service so it's sort of a difference of business styles there

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