I want jobs for me and my friends and more things to watch, but I’m afraid of the cost.
The pandemic has really done a number on the industry. While we saw trends moving this way already, it seems like Hollywood has jumped a decade into the future.
Cinema is pretty much gone, and content is king. This may sound hyperbolic, but as I see titles like West Side Story falter, as I read that audiences are scanning movie length and making choices based on it, and as I see Netflix’s Top Ten crushing online, with no one questioning the box office—I think content is here to stay.
So how do we live in a world where we don’t lose cinema too?
Author: Jason Hellerman
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.