With the line between TV, movies, and streaming continuing to blur, is cinema in trouble? You've seen us bemoan this topic before, so I'll be brief with the details. The rise in streaming compounded with the coronavirus changed Hollywood in the last year. It seemed like we jumped decades in months, with major studios opting to put releases online as well as in theaters for the first time ever. This has been a leap forward in where cinema is going. In addition to that, studios opening departments to mine intellectual property and the expansion of tentpole movies, and relative shunning of other titles, shows that things may never go back to the way we knew them. Movies cost money, and the places with all the cash are favoring profits over art. Where there once was an intersection between commerce and art, now there's just commerce. And it's not only movie studios; entering the game are people like AT&T and Apple, traditional media companies who are buying and selling their own programming and their own platforms as well. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 18 May, 2021