Thanks for the ping. I don’t trust anything in the movie business today be hold for more than about 15 minutes, but this is from two days ago:
I don’t have much to say about the spandex warriors, but I do hope audiences will return to theaters, mainly because I don’t want the streaming networks to be the only distribution game in town. The vertical integration of the industry is worrisome. The more platforms, the better.
How much of a theatrical window Spider Man: No Way Home will have, I don’t know. I won’t be seeing it. But if it brings the comic book movie fans back, good. I WILL be interested in what the multiplex theater might be showing on its other 13 screens. That’s where independent films, including my kind of films, might find room to breathe. But for that to happen, we have to keep the multiplex theaters alive.
Not that I have any objection to tiny, 50 seat art house popup theaters, but no major filmmakers will produce for that market if mainstream theatrical options disappear. The art houses will be reduced to student projects shot on I-phones. Everything else will be reduced to what Disney, Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Max, etc. will greenlight. The Borg is the big threat.