On June 16, 2001, Jean-Claude Van Damme went to the set of the show. Everyone is talking about it Making a very strange prediction against Thierry Ardison and Laurent Buff – a prediction that made the public laugh and which nevertheless turned out to be correct a few years later.
“We are going to distribute movies over the phone, this will be the first time.“
Did the Belgian actor predict the streaming era? Apparently so, and he announced that he was working on this new method of distributing films himself.
“I’m about to break into the internet world. We’re going to announce the film online, from each country, then we’re going to go online, and then we’re going to do it with antennas.“, he explained to the audience, who didn’t take him seriously at all, as you can see in the video below.
In front of this mocking look, the actor was confident in himself: “We will be able to reach 250 million viewers. That’s pretty good for a quality movie for $1.99. So all over the world people who don’t have money press a button, we don’t have to wait 40 hours to download it… I can’t wait for satellite, it’s worth it. A lot of money. Money is worth millions of dollars. So we found a system, thanks to the internet.“
Unless he really used streaming to build his fortune, Jean-Claude Van Damme It was still true and we can see it online in The Last Mercenary on Netflix or in the parody series Jean-Claude Van Johnson on Prime Video.
We will soon find him in an action movie Kill all 2 which will be released on VOD on November 18.
Source: Allocine
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