They have buried this industry before. Television was supposed to kill it in the fifties, VHS in the eighties, DVDs, then Netflix in 2013, and every time the theater adapted and survived smaller but real. The current adaptation is already visible: premium large format, event cinema, concert films like the Eras Tour movie that did around $180 million domestic (Box Office Mojo), live Q&As, 70mm revivals that sell out in minutes. The suburban twelve-plex showing the same four blockbusters is probably doomed, and good riddance.
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