Entertainment: Bug accelerates digital destiny
China DailyA shopper walks past a closed AMC movie theater in Santa Monica, California, on Nov 19. Warner Bros has recently announced that it will make all of its 2021 films available on the group's HBO Max streaming service for one month on the same day they hit theaters. Nearly half of HBO Max subscribers watched Wonder Woman 1984 on the day of its release, and the streaming service saw the total viewing hours on that day more than triple in comparison to a typical day in the previous month, according to Warner Bros, without revealing specific numbers. Disney has The "only real benefactor" of the pandemic has been subscription video-on-demand platforms such as Netflix, Disney Plus and Amazon Prime Video, said research firm Ampere, which projected a 12 percent gain in additional revenue growth over a five-year period for streaming services. Though Warner Bros executives said the company's streaming strategy is a "unique, one-year plan", many in Hollywood believe that the industry will never be able to go back to its old ways.