Hollywood’s biggest old school name takes on Hollywood’s newest superpower. Get out your popcorn because titans are clashing! According to Indiewire, Steven Speilberg continues to make no bones about his views on the theatrical experience and the at-home alternative. “I hope all of us really continue to believe that the greatest contributions we can make as filmmakers is to give audiences the motion picture theatrical experience,” Spielberg said. “I’m a firm believer that movie theaters need to be around forever.” Is that REALLY true? It seems like a bit of a stretch to me. I think filmmakers can probably do more for the world, even just in terms of entertainment, than force people to continue to go to movie theaters, and I say this as a lover of the theatrical experience. Like, maybe #1 on this list should be “make good movies.” People have to spend a lot of money one way or another to see most movies, maybe making the movies good is more important as a contribution than getting butts into theaters. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 19 February, 2019