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- Wonder Woman 1984 is currently scheduled to hit theaters on June 5th, but there's no telling if theaters will actually be open again when the release date arrives.
- A new report claims that some Warner Bros. executives have discussed selling the movie online and skipping theaters altogether, which producer Charles Roven does not want.
- Warner Bros. denies this report, stating that Wonder Woman 1984 will release in theaters.
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It wasn't long ago that a movie going straight to a streaming service and skipping a theatrical release altogether was seen as a sign that the distributor wasn't confident if the movie would succeed. In our new reality - the one in which a viral pandemic is forcing us all to stay away from public venues such as movie theaters - going straight to streaming might be the new normal. In fact, even the biggest studios are now considering it.
TheWrap reports that Warner Pictures Group Chairman Toby Emmerich and his top advisers are currently discussing the idea of bypassing theaters and releasing Wonder Woman 1984 digitally instead. According to TheWrap's sources, not even director Patty Jenkins and producer Charles Roven have been included in these talks yet.
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Will ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ skip theaters and go straight to streaming? originally appeared on BGR.com on Fri, 20 Mar 2020 at 20:09:01 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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