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Maybe not for long. The case numbers are starting to creep back up in many parts of the world. In August, Toronto's daily new cases were in the single digits. Today, we hit 344, the highest since the pandemic began. It wouldn't surprise me if cinemas are forced to shut down again in many countries.

As with the fable of the scorpion and the frog, they can't help it - it's in their nature.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/filmmakers-maybe-dont-see-my-movie-in-theaters-right-now

There are rumours that Coming 2 America will be going to Netflix.

It's more or less the same as this: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-recovery-imperiled-do-you-take-the-risk-or-do-you-punt

While I agree with that to some extent, there is still an audience out there for something beyond the latest Star Wars or Marvel offering. In the past few years. Us, Glass, Hustlers, A Star is Born, Get Out, A Quiet Place, Crazy Rich Asians, Hidden Figures, La La Land, and Baby Driver all made...

I'm in Canada, and even though things are much better here over all than they are in the US, our numbers have tripled in the last few weeks.

I actually think that would be a good thing for the industry as a whole. I get that they want to make as much money as quickly as possible, but everything having to have a massive opening weekend has created an environment where only films that appeal to the lowest common denominator get...

Interesting article... https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/09/hollywoods-tenet-experiment-didnt-work/616345/

Seeing something in the cinema is still a fundamentally different experience than seeing it at home. And it's not all about screen size or audio/visual quality, either. An audience does make a difference, especially for certain genres like comedy and horror. Once this is all over, I presume most...

It's starting to look like Hollywood may be at the same point it was in the late-60s, where bloated mega-productions were no longer attracting audiences the way they used to. Maybe we'll see another renaissance along the lines of the 70s.

Movie theatres, restaurants, bars, clubs, performing arts, airlines - I'm glad I'm not in any of those industries. I think there are going to be major shake-ups and bankruptcies over the next year, but they will come back eventually, just maybe not in their current form.