It matters as the total budget of a movie needs to be recouped. The vast majority of albums are likely made using a few thousand dollars [0], if there isn't a b

It matters as the total budget of a movie needs to be recouped. The vast majority of albums are likely made using a few thousand dollars [0], if there isn't a break-even the artists potentially have other avenues of making money such as gigs/concerts if not making the limelight in the future. Movies such as that of the Mission Impossible series and the Avengers series cost $150M-$350M per movie to make [1] [2], without a theatrical release and/or a temporary pay-per-view model via Apple Movies or Amazon Prime (or most of the world being on a $20-30+/month Netflix, Disney Plus, etc. subscription, which is not the case yet), there wouldn't be much interest in financing such movies. [0] https://sonicscoop.com/2017/05/25/budget-record-album-2017/ https://sonicscoop.com/2017/05/25/budget-record-album-2017/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission:_Impossible_%E2%80%93_Fallout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission:_Impossible_%E2%80%93_... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Endgame https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers:_Endgame