Are movie theaters dead, or is the big screen irreplaceable?

Follow the auteurs, because they go where the money and freedom are. Scorsese made Killers of the Flower Moon for Apple. Fincher works for Netflix. The directors who supposedly represent cinema as an art form keep taking streaming checks, because streamers fund the mid-budget adult films that theaters abandoned. When the artists themselves treat theatrical as a nice-to-have premiere week before the real release, the 'sanctity of cinema' argument is just marketing. The people making the art already voted.