Cordkillers 312 - The Drive-In Renaissance (w/ Ashley Esqueda)
All the streaming services ranked, CBS orders more Star Trek, and Hamilton coming to Disney+. All this and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Ashley Esqueda.
CordKillers: 312 - The Drive-In Renaissance
Recorded: May 18 2020
Guest: Ashley Esqueda
Intro Video
Crossing Swords
Primary Target
Every US streaming service, ranked
Streaming services, ranked: May 2020
How to Watch
U.S. Theaters Returning With 200 Locations Open
- 200 theaters open in US as of Friday. 150 Drive-ins.
- Top grossing film this month The Wretched $211,957
- Top grossing theater Mission Tiki Drive-in, Montclair, CA- Number 2 Starlight 4 in Atlanta
Norway cinemas are open
- Last weekend 15% of Norway's cinemas reopened with restrictions 50 seats per screen. Ringen Kino in Oslo sold 96% of available tickets. That led to about half of average admissions when the theater is allowed to sell all of its seats. The top grossing title was Onward followed by Bloodshot, The Gentleman, Parasite and local titles Klovn 3: the Final and Flukten Ver Grensen. Evening screenings int he early part of the week have been 70% and screenings for Parasite this week are sold out.
Movie Theaters Reopening Survey: Majority Would Go If Safety Measures In Place
- EDO analytics survey
- 40% likely to return to cinemas
- Rose to 75% when desired safety measures implemented.
- 91% hand sanitizer stations
- 86% limited showtimes for extended cleaning
- 77% employees wearing masks
- 70% employees getting temp check
- 70% attendees wearing masks
- 60% attendees getting temp checked
- 5% no safety measures
- Show times are staggered to reduce congregating in the lobby
- Concessions are kept under control. Popcorn refilled and stored, coffee cups issued at the counter not left out by the dispensers.
-Streaming services used stayed the same as before COVID-19 Netflix 50%, Hulu and Cable 15%, Prime 10%
- 35% said they never browse PVOD menus 11% say they often do.
THE DATES TO WATCH
- INDIE with Russell Crowe Unhinged July 1
- Is ‘Tenet’ Still Opening On July 17 In This Coronavirus Climate?
- Mulan - July 24
- ‘New Mutants’ New Release Date Set for August
- Sources tell Deadline Warner wants 80% of worldwide theaters (30,000) open to launched Tenet. Decision coming in three weeks.
- If it moves likely moves to August 14 (Now Wonder Woman 1984 which moves to December then)
Italy's Visionario redid seats with 1.1 meters separation and butterfly wings shielding seats.
Italy Sets June 15 To Reopen Cinemas as it Preps For Summer Releases
What to Watch
CBS All Access greenlights ‘Strange New Worlds,’ a new Star Trek series about Pike and Spock
- CBS All Access placed a straight-to-series order for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, telling stories from The Enterprise commanded by Captain Christopher Pike who had the ship before Captain Kirk. Strange New Worlds cast the people who played Pike, Spock and Number One in Star Trek: Discovery.
A movie of the original cast performing Hamilton on stage was expected to hit theaters October 2021. Instead it's coming to Disney+ July 3.
Joe Buck said Fox Sports will use recordings of crowd noise and images of fans int he stands on its broadcast of NFL games played in empty stadiums. The idea is to make the broadcast a more normal experience at home.
‘Mandalorian’ Season 2 Casts Timothy Olyphant
The Mandalorian reportedly casts Clone Wars voice actor as live-action Bo-Katan Kryze
- The Hollywood Reporter and Variety's sources say Timothy Olyphant will appear in Season 2 of The Mandalorian. And SlashFilm's sources say Katee Sackhoff, who voiced Bo-Katan in Clone Wars and Rebels, will play the same character in Mando season 2.
A trailer is out for Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods, about four veterans who go back to Vietnam in search of treasure and the remains fo their squad leader, coming to Netflix June 12.
George Miller has apparently reached a deal to produce a prequel to Mad Max Fury Road but with a different actor than Charlize Theron playing Furiosa.
Netflix announced Umbrella Academy Season 2 will premiere July 31.
Queer Eye season 5, set in Philadelphia, coming to Netflix June 5.
Eyes On
Brian: Rick and Morty, What we do in the Shadows, Larry Sanders Show
Tom: Upload
Ashley: What we do in the Shadows, Harley Quinn
On the Lookout: Solar Opposites
Front Lines
Jeffrey Katzenberg Blames Pandemic for Quibi’s Rough Start
- Jeffrey Katzenberg told the New York Times, “I attribute everything that has gone wrong to coronavirus. Everything.” Quibi predicted it would have 7 million downloads by the end of its first year, right now it says its halfway there with 3.5 million, 1.3 million of which are active. It's ranked number 125 on the Apple App Store. Yet Katzenberg said the company is "making enough gold out of hay here that I don’t regret it." Quibi will add support for casting to TVs to its iOS app this week and Android in the next few weeks.
HBO Has a New Way to Watch With Friends: How to Set Up Virtual Co-Viewing Parties
- HBO has partnered with a startup called Scener to offer a Chrome browser extension that lets you co-watch HBO shows with folks over the Internet, similar to Netflix Watch Party. Scener lets up to 20 people watch and do video audio and text chat together. Scener is also considering larger groups and talks about emulating Twitch's tips and shout-outs. Scener’s Google Chrome extension supports HBO Now and HBO Go for MacOS, Windows PC, and Chromebook. Scener's primary investor is RealNetworks.
Netflix Streaming Quality in Europe is Being Bumped Back Up to Full 4K HDR
- Netflix is starting to lift European coronavirus-related streaming quality limits in Denmark, Norway, Germany. This was first reported by FlatpanelsHD. Previously Netflix, Apple TV+, and Amazon Prime Video all complied with a European Commission request back in March to reduce bandwidth and help networks manage their loads. Apple restored 4K streaming late last month.
Foxtel Poised To Launch Streaming Service in Australia
- Australian Pay TV company Foxtel will launch a streaming service next week. The app will have 10,000 hours of content with programing from Sony, NBCU, FX, WarnerMedia and the BBC. No other details like price or name are known though Foxtel says it will market it to folks who don't want the normal Foxtel.
Dispatches from the Front
Hey Killers,
I used some of my stimulus money to reactivate my Patreon support for the show. Thank you for the great entertainment and information.
I also used it to expand my Hulu no-ad subscription to the Disney bundle. Unfortunately, I am very disappointed with ESPN+. When I tried to watch the KBO game this morning, and when I have tried to watch “Pardon the Interruption,” it asks me to provide my TV provider. I do not have a TV provider. What am I paying for ESPN+ for?
Thank you for giving me a chance to vent.
Sincerly,
- John