WB Pushing Ahead With Cinema Screening For Mortal Kombat, Digital Release Also Happening

"40GB download required."

Seriously though, unless this is rated NC-17, this will be a complete waste of time.

In fairness Artemis Fowl always looked like a tv movie and not worth releasing at the cinema.

@korosanbo : "Would you like me to sneeze in your popcorn for 50c?"

The live-action Mulan and Artemis Fowl were both garbage though, makes sense to shovel them into the streaming service and pretend they're adding value.

@korosanbo you can be socially distanced in a cinema, you can just block off some seats between people.

@Silly_G They can stretch R more nowadays.
There might be a Unrated version of it too for stream.

@Silly_G
Nah. You can cough in my nachos for 75c instead.

@westman98 : sigh The customer is always right. cough wheeze

"Hey Fred, remember that time we risked our lives to go an watch Monster Hunter in the cinema on Christmas day?"

"Hah, yeah! That was the best!"

I watched Mortal Kombat Legacy, the fan made project.

The first season was decent but it steadily declined after. Still worth a watch.

Please let nintendo fans play mortal kombat through hamster arcade archives.

Fatality... "get over here....(cough, cough)"

I honestly didn’t know this was coming.

@Branovices Soul looks good though.

That aside... there's a new Mortal Kombat movie?

As curious as I am about this movie I just can't shake the feeling its not going to be that good so either I be disappointed in January or later it doesn't make a difference.

@jump I don't trust theaters, though. That's potentially a lot of people boxed in together and sharing germs, even with blocked seats and social distancing.

Anyway, if people have been avoiding theaters when a new Nolan movie releases, I'm guessing MORTAL KOMBAT, of all things, isn't going to drive many sales.

@Silly_G the producer and director of the Mortal Kombat reboot movie said in a interview, the movie is gonna be rated R, be more faitful to the more recent Mortal Kombat games and feature Fatalities.

@Ralizah I've got a mate who's a manager of cinema and I'm just gonna repeat what they say to me. No cases have been traced to a cinema at all in Europe, the ceilings are massively high because of how tall the screens are so it's less boxed than restaurants and shops which are open and only a handful of people going anyway.

Tenet did alright though, tbh I was put off by it as it sounded less Nolan-ish and more like a Mike Myers or Adam Sandler movie (a spy with the power of a word!) but I'm planning on seeing Wonder Woman when it's out.

Will this be Animated or Live-Action?

On topic: the new Mortal Kombat movie might be interesting to me if I was still a teenager and had actually played a Mortal Kombat game since MK4 on the N64.

Off topic: the Mortal Kombat song from the first movie is now stuck in my head. Thanks, NL. That movie did have a killer soundtrack.

Guess no one is going to see it then lmao, I don't know anyone who is still going to the theatre.

Woo thanks for the heads up. Didn't even know a MK movie was in the make

@jump Odds are contact tracing would have real trouble identifying cases from theaters. It would just be considered community acquired. Even if you found a small cluster, it would be hard to determine that they all met at that one place unless we made it mandatory to have a covid app on your phone or something.

Either way I have no interest in movie theaters until I get a vaccine.

At least this way they can blame the poor box office takings on Covid and not on the fact it's a Mortal Kombat movie.

The fact they were planing a January release does not bode well.

Warner Bros just announced that all of their 2021 movies will release will release on HBO Max on the same day they hit theaters at no extra cost.

Movie theaters are dead.

@Antiriad2097 The 1995 Mortal Kombat film was #1 at the box office for its opening weekend with $23.2 million, and enjoyed a three-week stint at number one, grossing $70 million domestically, and earning $122 million worldwide. Pretty good vs a budget of $18 million. Meanwhile the latest game in the series has sold over 8 million copies.

@Ralizah I ditto this

@jump It's more the fact that no one is going that will put them out of business. If the theatre was packed every seat those high ceilings would not help very much with virus spread.

But packing every seat is what they need to stay in business. They're kind of stuck right now.

@Branovices In the middle of a pandemic, with a history of poor videogame movies, with Mortal Kombat in particular being a notable example of such, we're a long way from 1995.

I enjoy a hokey videogame movie myself, I have a collection of DVDs that would surprise you on that topic, but fighting games are generally the worst for translation to the silver screen. The best of the bunch imo would be Dead or Alive, but it's a long way from acceptable to a mainstream audience. Best to look toward other genres with a bit more to the plot than 'these people fight each other one on one'.