Coronavirus, By Taking Moviegoing Away From Us, Can Only Make Us Miss It (Column)

,” getting bumped back an entire year — are only the first of many dominoes to fall. Disney, and then Universal, announced this week that it would shut down production on all live-action films, with other studios sure to follow.

All of this has arrived, of course, in tandem with the earthquake that the entertainment industry was already in the middle of: the most convulsive paradigm shift in the consumption and distribution of movies since the invention of the VCR. The history of that ancient, now-quaint technology might suggest that the streaming revolution needn’t be a revolution to fear. Watching movies at home has been the new normal since 1982.

The conventional wisdom says: In a society that’s going to be organized, for a while, around social distancing, and where pockets of people will be quarantined , the impulse toward home viewing just got kicked up from a desire into an imperative. And since the question that’s been asked over the last year is, “Do movie theaters have a future? Or is it Netflix’s world and we just live in it?,” the virus now dovetails with the cutting edge of that question.

I think it could prove to be just the opposite. For a while, the coronavirus is going to take movies away from us — not all movies, but more than a few movies, in the spring and possibly summer . It will take away a number of the films that people most want to see. It’s eerie to look at the updated release calendar and register that there are now no new major Hollywood films scheduled for the second half of March.

Yes, I expect Mulan, TNM, NTTD, AQP Part II to all be bigger than ever. The appetite will be HUGE.

If we're all even alive

Yes theatres may have there strongest year after The Virus ends preach

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