SONY'S BEATLES MOVIE PLAN

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From the Pop Culture Brain PODCAST — Sony has a diabolical plan to guarantee that their Beatles movies are a hit (Sources: THR, World of Reel) #thebeatles #sony #movies
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@emd476YouTube

Sony is trying to create an artificial ‘Barbenheimer’ where they don’t have to share half the boosted box office with another studio. Which could work. I do think if they’d spread it out they’d risk audience exhaustion by movie four, especially if one doesn’t live up to whatever bar the previous one set. But four movies at once is a lot to ask people to watch in small theaters and in this economy. I think this concept could work, but only with two or three films.

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@danshott6379YouTube

Be honest, we all know the Ringo film is probably gonna bomb. Peace and love.

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@MACandanedo1YouTube

I think it would be smart to make the movie in which your initial ticket offers you a coupon discount for the next movie and so on. Often getting a discounted rate brings people back even if they weren't blown away by the initial event.

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@sqb6056YouTube

The year idea was always how I thought it should go

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@516tigergirlYouTube

I thought it would be a weekly thing.

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@BNBarbarousYouTube

Given the significant overlap in production between the movies, I doubt it’s possible to know the exact budget of each one. If they are forced to report a collective budget, then it would see fair to combine the box office numbers also.

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@MonroehandYouTube

Her strategy works… the movies are good and don’t jeapordize the success of the next one, and based previous track records, they aren’t willing to take the chance. They want to make as much as they can as fast as possible

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@Lars-ox2ffYouTube

Credit where it's due, Sony does put out a lot of pretty bold experiments more so than any other Hollywood studio. And this one is no different, still though the idea of all movies being released the same month is so crazy that it's a complete gamble, I'm here for it though cause that's sounds insane which I have to respect.

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@Flimflamworld420YouTube

They're definitely not looking to entice any casual fans and I don't see anyone who doesn't know The Beatles- is going to be excited to do this... even if it is The Beatles... and don't get me wrong here I'm a huge fan.... but it would attract a very niche audience, in my opinion. Release
it through the year... imagine THAT marketing budget. 😮

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@dylanpowellYouTube

They should do 1 movie a week during the month of April or 1 movie a month from April-July

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@sayheyguyYouTube

It's such a stupid strategy, they'll oversaturate the market and eat into each other's business and it guarantees at least 2 of them will bomb. They should stagger the releases every 2-3 months.

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@franciscopozoleYouTube

I don't think it will matter. It may be 4 movies, but the combined budget for all 4 won't be more than the cost of 2 mid budget films and the print and advertising costs will be the same as a single film.

It makes total sense to treat this as a single project with 4 different versions of the film.

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@fojemo1661YouTube

She has the best idea. Agree 100%.

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@LeviathanEatsPieYouTube

The ringo movie should be everyone is a muppet except ringo. Because thats how he sees the world.

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@MypronounIsKingYouTube

@danshott6379he’s bigger then Jesus wdym

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@80severythingbru23YouTube

Just release ONE MOVIE of all the Beatles!!! And all on the SAME DAY?!?! That’s so dumb….

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@ClipssssssssssssssssssYouTube

Combining their box office reports is surely just to hide how much worse the Ringo and George movies will do than the John and Paul movies right? I feel like it's surely some kind of tactic like that because it's just a fact who the objectively more famous and popular half of the group are regardless of how justified anyone individually thinks that is

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@angelusdemorte3YouTube

I feel like this is a "once-and-forever-proof-who-is-the-favorite-Beatle" gimmick which they will point to those numbers... we all know everyone is going to see the John one first. Unless, they are "saving the best for last" but I feel like most people will pick their favorite for theaters... then watch the others streaming. So, I guess I will see some of you in George's...

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@dougimYouTube

This is bananas.

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@SurprisinglyDeepYouTube

This is a great opportunity for an indie or smaller film studio to make a Pete Best film.

We all know about the Beatles but it's also interesting to hear about the life story of the poor guy who was THIS close to becoming an international superstar and who by all rights kind of deserved at least some success after having spen t years working hard playing multiple sets each night with the Beatles in a dodgy club in the then seedy city of Hamburg for like 5 years straight.

I love the Beatles and their music but it was very cruel of the other 3 members to just cut Pete Best out like that. If there are alternate universes out there there's probably at least one reality where they're the "Fab Five" or at least "the Fab Four plus their occasional songwriting partner Pete Best" instead of just the Fab Four.

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@SurprisinglyDeepYouTube

Yeah maybe they should've just done 3 films in succession like "part 1 the Beatles the early years" then a year later "part 2 the Beatles the glory days" and then a year later "part 3 the Beatles the final years the band was together and a bit of what they did after the band split up".

Obviously someone could think up far better film titles and it might be better if it was just like "part 1, part 2 and part 3" but I'm sure you all understand the "titles" were descriptive.

Alternatively maybe the studio should work with movie studios to offe r like a discoun t to film-gowers who bu y tickets to all 4 films at once or something like that.

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@SurprisinglyDeepYouTube

What other experiments did Sony do? I don't doubt you per se but I just can not think of any unless you mean like "the 2 animated Spider-man films with the 3rd coming soon" but Kung Fu Panda and How To Train Your Dragon had already proven kid and teen movie goers are down for "heroic animated trilogies"

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@blaze14ZXYouTube

This would've worked in the 90's and 2000's but not now, theres too much stuff in theaters these days.

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@SuperNuclearUnicornYouTube

"what the fuck are we supposed to do with this?" was so funny

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@QuantumCat91YouTube

Buddy if you think that they don't know what each one cost and made you're the fool sony is hoping for.

Never seen such a brain dead comment

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@QuantumCat91YouTube

No. it's 4 movies. That's like saying the marvels movies and shows are too over lapping to know how successful each was hahaha you understand you have a brain right

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@graysonlheureux9575YouTube

Im guessing Sony doesn’t care about the box office as much as it may seem. They probably have a few people at the top who want to push all four movies to streaming as soon as possible bc it could make them more money. Releasing them one a quarter makes the most sense to me so either Sony is really make a dumb risk or there’s a few people who are gonna make a lot of money

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@BNBarbarousYouTube

@QuantumCat91They are filming them simultaneously, not one after another. Do you seriously think the hundreds of people working on those movies are being given 4 separate salaries? Do you think that they signed two separate salaries to film in a specific location, just because some scenes are being used in different movies? They’ve only ever announced that the budget for the entire project is 400 million, which is roughly 100 million a film. There are no unique estimates for each film. That tells me they haven’t even bothered to do the accounting separately.

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@Souldieroflove-o8dYouTube

Same month as the Michael biopic is crazy

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@hansw.1804YouTube

The problem or risk of having spread out is that if the 1st one flops the other 3 are DOA.

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@ingameleviYouTube

Lumping together 4 movies box office earnings together is dishonest to a point where it may constitute fraud

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@lateblume4208YouTube

I could see a giant trend of only the ringo movie doing well

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@seemankarpratimYouTube

They should definitely do one each quarter and put easter eggs in each one of them to make it connected like Marvel movies. It bounds the audience to watch each one every quarter. Imagine the publicity they would have !!

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@michaelelliott4249YouTube

Concerning and crazy at the same time.

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@organicphotoYouTube

That Regal subscription is gonna be very popular when these drop.

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@sharynloshakoff5404YouTube

And start with John bc he started the Beatles and end with Ringo’s movie bc he was the last to join the band.

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@MultiZelda13YouTube

It's insane. But like he said, unprecedented. I kinda love the audacity. It's a terrible idea but the chutzpah is unparalleled

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@Miriam_Taylorsversion_1313YouTube

@lateblume4208 I know I want to see the Ringo one!

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@dorothyvjones52YouTube

I LOVED 😍 it the moment she said "I hate it" 🙋🏼‍♀️🧡💜🩷💚🩶🩵🤎🙋🏽‍♀️

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@stm8872YouTube

@SurprisinglyDeepMorbius "Round 2" was pretty experimental...tho idk if we can credit them with that tbh

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@seanrichardson7295YouTube

I don't want to see a movie that ends with John Lennon getting murdered, that seems depressing.

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@TheBlankNoNameYouTube

Even though there’s no correct order I assume there’s gonna be an order that is the best. Like once the movie comes out everyone the internet is probably gonna quickly come up with the best order and then everyone will watch it in that order.

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@jamiemccracken9704YouTube

This is a fun way to do releases. Gr8 for theatres hopefully

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@AesirionYouTube

You release them as George, Paul, Ringo, John if you do it sequentially. If it's quarterly then you get Paul in the summer and John around December

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@manandebikitsha7166YouTube

1 every quarter is so smart. That way they can stay relevant for the entire year.

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@elarchez0929YouTube

This idea is very creative when attempting to create like 2 films. Like releasing 2 films from the POV of the protagonist vs antagonist. But doing 4 movies at once is over doing it. Interesting idea tho

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@donkeykong64-li8ncYouTube

my question is why 4 (also this move would more sense for streaming)

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@charlesh5647YouTube

Of course, and it’s brilliant. The fact that there will be so much controversy over which movie is doing better, ESPECIALLY between John and Paul’s movies will just force all of the fans to go out and support it in droves. And the major box office trend of the last few years is that audiences want a reason to go suffer at the theater when they have effectively just as good entertainment systems at home now and infinitely more comfortable and convenient. So if they can make this an contest and make it something where you don’t want it spoiled for you then they will have a major box office hit, and the theaters are incentivized to give them as many screens as possible because every gap in between movies is another opportunity for them to sell candy and novelty pop corn buckets etc. This is going to make so much money. And packaging the Ringo and George movies alongside john and Paul and I’m sure they will stagger the films so you have to see Ringo and George before you go see Paul or John, is another way to effectively make viewer spend 4 times on the same story. Is it deeply manipulative, yes. Is it brilliant movie packaging and eventizing, also yes.

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@johnadams8371YouTube

edit: posted this before i finished the video. 🤡

it could work if they released them one week apart in four weeks. i’d probably do all 4 if the first one was good.

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@MayankKumar-ch8pqYouTube

If you spread them out you kill the later movies, some of their biggest moments especially in the early parts of their lives were together, you can't get an audience to enjoy those moments across a 4 month period over and over, there is no real answer, but I think by releasing them together the discourse can really carry them, someone makes a point from lenon's perspective and the counter goes oh but Paul was coming from this perspective, you have to watch the Paul movie to judge his reaction. Depending on how they've worked out the screenplay they can get a frenzy going for a month.

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@schnitzelOneTwoThreeYouTube

It's like a miniseries you watch in the cinema but you can't binge watch all the episodes

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@Max_The_FlowerYouTube

My guess is they planned for it to be one movie but they decided later to split it up, the beginning and ends of it will have the biggest differences between them while the middle of it while the band is together will be mostly the same. Possibly using different camera angles so it looks like we’re seeing it from a specific Beatle’s perspective.

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@koiloyloYouTube

the problem with spreading them out is that if people realise the first couple aren’t good they’ll lose interest and not bother seeing the others… and i think sony knows this

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@swiftly_produced2694YouTube

Idk George is the most popular beatle

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@LauraSomeNumberYouTube

I think this will back fire on them so hard.

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@AlexMP-g3jYouTube

One in February, the otheon march, then one in June/august, then November and finally you join them all on secret wars

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@Marss_8YouTube

I would feel so sad if ringo sees his own movie bomb

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@TheHunchy101YouTube

Maybe they thought that only 2 of the 4 would be popular enough for people to care watch on theaters? Or they some agreement behind the scenes that they have to make it this way? 🤷🏻‍♀️

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@flemmingpedersen567YouTube

I can see this as a endurance trend - people posting/recording between each movie as they spend all day watching them.

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@Earz13YouTube

Can’t wait to watch them when they come to streaming for free

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@NakeyJakeyFromStateFarmYouTube

“Year of the Beatles” should’ve been their move…it’s right there!

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@urzamishraYouTube

True. As for the box office if it’s combined divide by 4.😂

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@Suitable-Sock12YouTube

Every3 months makes perfect sense how’d they not do that

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@BROJANGSTERYouTube

@urzamishra nah dude, ringo's gonna outgross those other blokes

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@BROJANGSTERYouTube

@stm8872 nah, for keeping the meme going and listening to "fan" demand (even if it screwed them over), they get all the credit in the world for that lol

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@filmsbyiankenvilleYouTube

These movies should be spread out at least 1-3 months apart.

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@israelsu1757YouTube

@stm8872😂

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@DTSnyderYouTube

Some Sony Executive, "If all the movies in the theater are ours we make all the money, this can't fail"

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@violintegralYouTube

@QuantumCat91 you have no idea what you're talking about buddy. i don't think you understand the concept of the project at all. it's four separate movies being filmed and released at the same time, telling the same general story from four unique perspectives. the production of the four movies is so closely intertwined that you can't separate the individual cost of each movie (and it would be pointless to do so). the most comparable previous film project with multiple movies being filmed at the same time is probably Peter Jackson's LoTR trilogy. in fact, the estimated budget of each individual LoTR movie is literally just the budget of the entire film project divided by 3, and the situation for these Beatles movies is the exact same except with 4 movies being filmed simultaneously instead of 3.

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@gpturner0924YouTube

Sell a ticket package that will give you access to all 4, and make it non transferable. Then spread the releases out to 1 every quarter, in increasing order of each member’s popularity. George first, then Ringo, then John, and finally Paul. Schedule it so all 4 movies are released the same year, and the McCartney movie will be a holiday season classic. In this way, all 4 will be competing in the same Academy year, so they can dominate the nominee fields across the board.

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@kiwjr1128YouTube

Phase 1 of the BCU: The Lennonfinity Saga followed by Phase 2: The Ringoverse Saga 😭

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@StarlightRegressYouTube

At the end of each movie they should have end credit scenes where the other guys are hinted, then they should make a massive crossover movie with all four of them.
Title: The Beatles

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@bettynomsonbunsYouTube

This feels like the first attempt at a theatrical "binge" release like for shows on streaming services

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@anthonyhernandez13YouTube

I can see why they are considering all at once. If they spread out the movies as you suggest, the urgency will no longer be there, also, who’s to say what other movies will be playing alongside that will pull audiences away?

Releasing them at the same time would be the correct way to do it for this this generation of “binge watchers”

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@yz4043YouTube

One a quarter is a good idea because people will be anticipating the next one

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@JonOhFunYouTube

By that theory Disney could just re-release all 3 Avatar films on the same day and say Avatar is now One Film Event and the gross combined revenue is now $6 billion+ making it the highest grossing 'film' of all time (again)

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@ElChangoEseYouTube

This is not a bundle of movies; this is a miniseries taken to a movie theater.

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@ImJustTooLazyYouTube

Would also make sense to start with Paul or John then Ringo and George then end with Paul/John - put the films people most want to see at the start and end to encourage them to come watch, but makes them feel left out if by the fourth movie they havent seen the other 3. Terrible idea, doing them all the same day, when they could have made even more money spreading them out and making it a year long event

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@eggsrsweetYouTube

One a quarter makes the most sense. And then when the 4th one comes out in December, do a big re-release of the first 3.

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@KingLouisIIYouTube

They are missing a huge opportunity! They should have The Beatles played by Paul Rudd as John Lennon, Jack Black as Paul McCartney, Justin Long as George Harrison, and Jason Schwartzman as Ringo Starr. That’s right! A Dewey Cox spinoff about the rise and fall of The Beatles!

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@lunaloveless7234YouTube

Real Beatles fans wanna see those ones more than rhe Paul and John ones lol

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@OscarWilde-r2kYouTube

I want a Beatles ticket package!!!!!

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@stm8872YouTube

@BROJANGSTERfair enough

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@imaybewelcYouTube

Every 3 months makes a LOT of sense.

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@anime17loveYouTube

Listen we already got The Beatles in Walk Hard and honestly I think that’s all we need

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@JoelMills-t6kYouTube

i really hope they pull through with this

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@caf4947YouTube

underrated comment

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@csrmndzYouTube

They should release them 14 days from each other. Give people two weeks to go see one before the next. Or done a weekly release in parts, like theaters used to do

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@johnedward8352YouTube

I love it. It's creative and unique. I'm super excited. F a year long event. They're creating the first ever binge experience in a movie theater

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@erinmalone2669YouTube

Poor Ringo. I don’t think anyone’s gonna pick his first.😂

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@ImLennguireYouTube

I’m gonna see the Ringo movie first

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@BruceDub21YouTube

Great idea

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@RorysammyYouTube

The Yoko Ono one will be direct to Paramount Plus.

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@tonyhokensonYouTube

When I first heard about this I did assume they would do one a quarter, it made the most sense

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@ShenDoodlesYouTube

“John, we’re in an octopus’s garden!”
“This is an opium den.”

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@screenPhilesYouTube

I'm betting Ringo''s box office underwhelms. #justsaying

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@screenPhilesYouTube

Stupid things can be audacious and precedent-setting too (that's often why they're stupid).

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@JustASillyGoober_3YouTube

Me and my friend were so mad when the casting for the Beatles movie came out. I’m not as big of a fan as my friend is but we were both equally as pissed because they don’t even really look like them.

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@TommmmmmobileYouTube

Well we know two of them end a little earlier than the others 😂

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@selinakyle2368YouTube

They are trying to out do the Michael biopic

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@Souldieroflove-o8dYouTube

@selinakyle2368Imao

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@pixelcultmedia4252YouTube

I love the Beatles but I don't need a fucking Beatleverse.

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@pixelcultmedia4252YouTube

And I bet the George Harrison movie will sell less but be the best one.

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@seiyalover1YouTube

Bro im so down they should just schedule the movies in a single day to make it day events. They’ve done it before with popular franchises it’ll be fun to see how ir works with a new one

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@TreenyBeanYouTube

I do like the idea of once a quarter and then offering this package deal at the end of the year once all four have been released. I spent like 10 hours in a single movie theater once after the third Hobbit movie came out watching all three back to back, and would 100% do that for other movie series I love

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@mroctober323YouTube

Just "Post Credit Scene" each member like Thanos....

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@skele-eletonYouTube

I cant wait to marathon all four movies for free the week after they release :^)

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@chriscraiYouTube

They should release the numbers separately so we can see who the favorite Beatle is

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@inreview2709YouTube

I'm already planning to see all 4 at once. I'm a huge Beatles fan so I'm ready.

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@OhLonesomeMe1892YouTube

We can't really watch all 4 movies at once. I might watch it while I'm in college, but damn.

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@PATTyMeLTedYouTube

They should just make one movie!

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@lexington631c4YouTube

I also would have done three months. I would have released the John Lennon biopic in December. I am not sure how they are filming the biopic but I would assume they are doing life before the Beatles, during and afterwards.
Release this on streaming platforms and then you can release them all at once.

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@SalvacottontailYouTube

They better have a post credits Thomas scene with ringo

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@MostDa14YouTube

one this is for sure, the jackson estate is going to make a killing from this

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@dangerone781YouTube

Yes, with the seasons, 1st thing i thought lol! But I get it, bettin on hype and fandom, to making ppl what to join in on "record breaking moment," type stuff. Hoping on no flop. Should be interesting if anything. Definitely releasing at the Sphere in Vegas, imagine

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@VincentHicks-d9tYouTube

They need her in promotions.

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@86.Jonathan86YouTube

The Hollywood reporter, such a trusted outlet

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@CFak-i9r1cYouTube

They should tell us the whole budget for the 4 movies too.

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@atomicsmithYouTube

Consecutive weeks would have been a better strategy. That way at least two are playing most weeks, but they don’t open against each other. They could have made a pun off “8 days a week” too.

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@runenorderhaug7646YouTube

I would do one every two weeks . Nice hype then cool

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@namecomingsoon9517YouTube

Imagine they are all perfectly in sync chronologically so if you were to watch them all at the same time, whenever they are together you get each ones pov of the moment side by side

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@ShepardTurnbull-r6uYouTube

We got the Beatles cinematic universe before GTA 6 😭😭😭

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@WYKlaureYouTube

I would do the year thing on a birthday basis.

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@dougdamron6813YouTube

This lineup of the Beatles only worked together for just over 8 years. For context that's the amount of time that's passed since infinity war, and less time than was between iron man and infinity war. What an impact. 13 studio albums. Ringo had just turned 30 when they broke up.

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@the_busterwolfYouTube

Each movie is probably gonna be 3 hours each as well… 💀

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@taylorehYouTube

Nobodys going to the Ringo movie if given a choice of two on a weekend, lets be real.

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@joemanco1075YouTube

That's insane. Nobody will take the box office numbers as seriously as they think

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@lamalover2819YouTube

I would legitimately watch this

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@AbsoluteAbsurdYouTube

how the fuck do these companies make such horrible decisions 😭😭 like how is it that every week i see a new fucking ridiculous decision made by a MASSIVE company. 🤦🏽

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@MarvelPixWorkYouTube

I’m feeling it now, the movies are gonna work against each other and you’re gonna see a solid of 55 mil lump sum at most

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