I can sort of see both sides of it. I say sort of in that I totally see the point of directors and actors, etc. I can only sort of see the WB side of this. They can't continue to finance stuff and let it set on a shelf indefinitely until everyone feels things are normal. Contrary to the CAA letter, a vaccine going wide in Q1 or Q2 isn't going to set things back to complete normal by June. It just won't. There will be plenty of holdouts and even those getting it won't all return to normal movie going status that quick. You're probably looking at another year before movie attendance would be close to 'normal' again. You can't stack up two years worth of films while continuing to make more and not making anything back. The sort of is, WB could have played up that side if it were true, yet didn't. Seems as if the decision was solely 'we can't release these for a while, so let's eat the profit we would've made and dump on our new streaming service to drive demand by giving it something no one else has, first run flicks. I'd wager most of those against it would be much less upset if it went the Disney and others route of putting in HBO Max, but, charging 30 bucks per view.