All of those cases are "first times" for studios. The public has demonstrated time and again they want to go to theaters and restaurants and be in public. The current situation hurts, and it will mean the end of some businesses and even companies, but it will not create a loss of demand for public entertainment.
So yea here is the deal. There seems to be a vocal minority that wanted BW and these other movies to be released in the theater only in this environment. I am not sure why. To prove box office superiority or something. If Disney thought that was the best way to make money, I would have thought they would have done it. But they didn't. And there are people mad at them for that. I don't know why.
Oh here is another thing. If these movies start checking vaccine cards going in. I will consider going back to the theaters. And thats coming.
That was me, watching a certain Jason Statham movie in a hotel TV entirely by accident.
Good thing the guy is nowhere close to being done, his and Guy Ritchie's Wrath of Man movie is currently credited as being the highest grossing indie movie released in theaters during the pandemic.
Tolstoy will live forever. Some people do. But that's not enough. It's not the length of a life that matters, just the depth of it. The chances we take. The paths we choose. How we go on when our hearts break. Hearts always break and so we bend with our hearts. And we sway. But in the end what matters is that we loved... and lived.