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Movie Content Scoreboard, as of July 2020
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Movie Content Scoreboard, as of July 2020

David Poland
Jul 23, 2020
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Movie Content Scoreboard, as of July 2020
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I am beyond sick of reading about every minor move by any studio with any theatrical movie being hailed as a paradigm-changing event. It's absurd.

But I realized I haven't broken down what there is and where it is likely to land. So here we go.

I made a list of 107 studio releases (Disney / Universal / WB / Sony / Paramount) and high-profile titles from indies like A24 and MGM that are ready to go or in some stage of post-production that suggests they will be available to release in the next 15 months. Please feel free to send in corrections. There are details that I know and details that I don't know. Some of these titles won't be ready. Some will. But mostly, this should be a pretty fair picture of the content on hand.

First, the nineteen 2020 movies that are unlikely to be repurposed for VOD or any other reduced-profile release, based on expectations. (Ten of the 19 have already had to move at least once.) Anything that is expected to gross more than $400 million in worldwide theatric…

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