And even after the theaters reopened, and moviegoers (or some of them, anyway) returned, the seemingly permanent erosion of the box office reflected a much larger story: the transition of audiences from the movie theater to the home theater, a technology-driven development that was also a cultural evolution. Yet where some surveyed the cinema landscape and saw vulnerability and weakness, and maybe the end of a dream (that is, the end of the movie culture we’d known for 100 years), I saw faith and resilience. What a Netflix-WBD merger means for the future of movies has been the talk of the industry, and speaking privately (or anonymously), countless observers up and down the Hollywood food chain believe that it would be a catastrophe.
Author: Owen Gleiberman
Published at: 2025-12-20 19:24:19
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