100 Days to IN THE HEIGHTS!

It's officially 100 days until the movie is out. (I know, I know, things are being delayed). In normal times, when would we get the soundtrack and to hear the new song ... soon, right?

I'd love to think they'd still release this on time. It's not exactly a tentpole action film, so I'm guessing it was a relatively mid-budget film that doesn't need to rely on massive summer audiences to get traction.

macbeth said: "It's officially 100 days until the movie is out. (I know, I know, things are being delayed). In normal times, when would we get the soundtrack and to hear the new song ... soon, right?"

usually soundtracks come out like the week before the movie

sabrelady said: "It will probably be released on a streaming platform as I have NO belief that this situation will be done by June.

So keep looking forward but realistically."

I think it's ridiculous that people keep bringing up this idea of movies straight to streaming as a viable idea. If a studio has any hope that the movie will do even remotely well, there is no reason for them to do so. They will be losing literally tens to hundreds of millions of dollars by releasing movies straight to streaming without a theatrical release and they need to recoup the costs for the movie.

Only one movie scheduled for the next few months has gone this route and it was a low-to-mid budget comedy (The Lovebirds) and the deal they struck with Netflix must've at least covered costs and then some or they would've just held it for a later date.

Updated On: 3/22/20 at 10:56 PM

I also don't think anything about the coronavirus will have settled by June. Perhaps the US will have reached it's first peak about three weeks from now. But there's no guarantee that it's the only peak. I read an analysis that projected a couple of years of rolling social distancing being needed whenever new cases continue to show up and the numbers rise. Eventually, when there aren't a consistent number of movie theaters across the country open at one time, I think studios will consider streaming services.

n2nbaby said:
This info is incorrect. The new Trolls movie will now be streaming the day of what was supposed to be it’s release. The Invisible Man, The Hunt, Emma, The Way Back, Bloodshot and more were all streaming just a few weeks from their original release dates. Onward will be on Disney+ next week. It’s uncharted territory and many movies are going to streaming and have been talked about going the VOD route."

All of those movies (with the exception of Trolls) had releases to theaters prior to the theater shutdown - so all received a theater opening and at least had the opportunity to generate box office revenue. Trolls is only set to be available on-demand digitally, not via a streaming platform, and it's considered a pretty controversial move by Universal, and extremely unlikely to recoup any of the costs associated with the production of that movie.

Not that that really matters as the main point of the argument is that in order to make any money on big budget movie releases, it makes zero sense for any studio to go straight to streaming now. That generates almost no revenue for the studios outside of whatever streaming service is willing to pay for the distribution rights. There's basically no chance that a streamer will shell out $100M for the streaming/distribution rights to a big budget movie.

Updated On: 3/23/20 at 09:02 AM

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/lin-manuel-miranda-in-the-heights-movie-delay-coronavirus-1203541910/

BrodyFosse123 said: "I expect it’ll compete with Spielberg’s WEST SIDE STORY remake this Christmas 2020. "

it’s still excepted to come out this summer. possibly late summer