Agreed.
Posted on 10/09/2020 7:42:26 AM PDT by EdnaMode
"If we shut this down, this will not be a reversible process," says the 'Wonder Woman 1984' director.
Director Patty Jenkins has warned that the future of cinema-going is in peril amid the coronavirus pandemic.
"If we shut this down, this will not be a reversible process," she told news agency Reuters in an interview from her home in Los Angeles. "We could lose movie theater-going forever."
Jenkins, whose Wonder Woman 1984 has been delayed three times due to the coronavirus pandemic, is among top Hollywood names who have appealed to the government for financial help for cinemas.
"While theater attendance has rebounded in some countries following a global shutdown in March, the U.S. market is struggling," she said. And if more cinemas get closed after Regal owner Cineworld decided to shut its venues amid a lack of Hollywood films, the director suggested: "It could be the kind of thing that happened to the music industry, where you could crumble the entire industry by making it something that can’t be profitable."
Exhibition giants Cinemark and AMC Theatres said earlier this week that despite Cineworld's decision to close its circuit, they plan to keep their movie theaters open. AMC chairman and CEO Adam Aron said there are plenty of films to play in the weeks to come, including the Robert De Niro comedy The War With Grandpa, which 101 Studios opens Friday.
It’ll be worth losing theaters if it means completely destroying Hollywood and the blathering political actors and employees. If they suicided their careers, then good.
The DeNiro movie trailer looks OK, but I can’t even imagine the day I spend money on a DeNiro movie.
Agreed.
My bad...
Frankly Harlot, I don’t give a damn!
You know, looking back on it, the ‘70s were a great time to be a boy watching TV... Lynda Carter, Lindsey Wagner, Charlie’s Angels. They don’t make ‘em like that anymore. Current TV i filled with freaky chicks and dykes.
Horrywood belongs to China and should reside in China.
The 80’s were awesome.
“Home Theater is miles ahead of where it was decades ago.”
Still, I love going to a dark theater, settle in, and be totally lost in the show. I don’t find that possible at home. But Hollywood sucks, so I guess nostalgia will be the best we can hope for.
I felt bad for the movie theater businesses, but they only exist to feed the leftist America hating prima donnas who make crap movies that no one will watch unless they take off their clothes and use the F bomb as the only adjective and adverb in the script.
F bomb them.
I’ve been watching 1940’s and 1950’s movies on you tube through the pandemic. Great stuff. Classy actors and actresses. Great scripts.
Not going back.
I remember the 80’s far more, but certainly we agree on the now v then premise.
So many chicks in tv and film now are gross.
Not just physically either.
I think she’s wrong. It is a reversible process. But it will likely return as a genuine attraction with comparatively few films a year which will be presented as large, “event” type experiences.
But she’s right in the respect that the overwhelming majority of films can go right to home streaming. Nobody outside of the business will care.
looks aside they’re both leftist loons
We need to be bailed out from our own Decisions and policies??
did I get that right??
Wienstein trained many as prostitutes. They will be doing it for considerably less, though.
Or they could learn to code.
Will Hollywood still make and release motion pictures? I believe so. Will they "gross" as much as they used to? Not so much. So the big issue isn't that movies won't be made, but the business model will need to change.
And that means owners of "picture palaces" will need to adapt to the new reality.
I don’t go to the movies often, but I do like going out as opposed to watching on TV. It’s expensive, but I won’t go broke doing it. I feel sorry for the guy in my town who runs one of the last 1920s movie palaces. He gets new movies a little later than the big operations, but going there is a lot expensive, and he’ll play Christmas classics, and a couple of times a year he features silent movies with organ accompaniment. That place has been closed since March.
Losing movie theaters forever?
So I can’t see an overpriced movie with rude strangers in a filthy seat with overpriced snacks while getting a politically correct lecture?
Oh no....
Dood, ya gotta share from time to time!
Don't you just admire the 100 pound heroines(I call them ANTs as in Absolutely No Tits!) beating up platoons of bad guys without messing up their hair?
I heard the theaters were open again, but there aren’t any good movies being released. Probably because nobody is going. Because there aren’t any good movies...
Kind of a chicken before the egg kind of thing.
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