The Theater Dispute for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Legend

<p>The sequel to the martial arts hit of 2000&comma; <em><strong>Crouching Tiger&comma; Hidden Dragon<&sol;strong><&sol;em>&comma; is the center of a big dispute with theaters refusing to show the picture&period; The Weinstein Company plans on releasing the film simultaneously on both IMAX in theaters and streaming on Netflix&period; Naturally&comma; this is pissing off a lot chain theaters who fear there will be no audience for a film they can already watch on Netflix&period; Thus&comma; some of them are refusing to run the film&period; The list includes Cinemark&comma; Regal&comma; Carmike&comma; Cineplex and Cineworld&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Here is what Regal spokesman Russ Nunley had to say about this issue&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>While a home video release may be simultaneously performing in certain IMAX locations&comma; at Regal we will not participate in an experiment where you can see the same product on screens varying from three stories tall to 3-inch wide on a smart phone&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>And then Cinemark spokesman James Meredeith gave his two cents&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>Cinemark does not play day-and-date movie releases on any of our screens including the IMAX screens that we operate&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>I&&num;8217&semi;m not too sure how I feel about this&period; While the most common method has been that the big theatrical movies run in the theaters for three months before a home video release&comma; the tides are changing as more smaller films are premiering on VOD before the theatrical release date&period; However&comma; placing in tandem with Netflix so soon may be a terrible idea seeing as how it undermines the theaters especially if they have to use up their IMAX screens&period; Why would audiences go out and pay IMAX prices when they could stay home and watch the same movie on a subscription service they already pay for&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We&&num;8217&semi;ll just have to see if the IMAX screenings are still a sure thing when <em><strong>Crouching Tiger&comma; Hidden Dragon&colon; The Green Legend<&sol;strong><&sol;em> will make it&&num;8217&semi;s debut on <strong>August 28&comma; 2015<&sol;strong>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;variety&period;com&sol;2014&sol;film&sol;news&sol;crouching-tiger-2-fallout-regal-cinemark-wont-play-imax-release-1201317183&sol;">Variety<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;