Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticNot very long into the pandemic, a collective tremor of dread passed through the movie industry: Was this the beginning of the end?It wasn’t the first time Hollywood had been roiled by a crisis mentality.
The most obvious precursor was the rise of television in the late ’40s and ’50s, which resulted in movies turning themselves into over-the-top widescreen spectacles — a frantic race to be big, bigger, biggest.
But I think it’s fair to say that for much of 2020 and 2021, the fear about what was going to happen to movies was nothing less than existential.
Would they survive? Would movie theaters, those seductive mass cocoons that ruled for a century, now dwindle and die, their marquees standing as relics of a lost civilization, like something out of a zombie film?
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