Or other movies sold to certain streaming services?
I haven't figured out how this works. In the Greyhound example, it was sold to AppleTV, which I'm not subscribing to. Does that mean it may NEVER go to DVD or other services (NEVER being in the next year or two, I'm sure in ten years, it'll be available everywhere... maybe)?
I just read that they are shopping the new Bond movie around for streaming purchase. It's gonna suck if the new normal is that new movies will only be available on certain services, and that you will have to continually subscribe and unsubscribe to who knows how many discrete streaming services to watch individual movies.
Seems like a better model would be for the studios to "lease" it to several streaming services, and you just pay ten bucks or whatever to watch the new release movie whether you're on Netflix, Apple, or whoever. That would be more similar to how they send movies to meatspace theaters, and seems like it would create more profit for the studios while allowing many more people easier access to their movies.