This is also why we’re likely to see more Chinese-American co-productions, and international-friendly genres like action movies, in the decade to come. The next decade will no doubt involve a shakeout of cinema-versus-streaming, but don’t expect big screens to disappear, any more than radio did after the advent of television. Big screens will remain the first stop for big movies – Disney’s Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar blockbusters – and for prestige flicks that desire Academy validation. Now we have Netflix distributing Scorsese’s The Irishman, while the director declares that the Marvel movies the crowd the multiplex aren’t really cinema. “Would I like the picture to play on more big screens for longer periods of time?” he wrote in a recent op-ed for the New York Times.

Source: National Post December 05, 2019 22:30 UTC