During the shutdown of everything, theaters couldn't open up and let people in. Now movies are so full the theaters seem to be collapsing even more.
Cineworld is declaring bankruptcy, and AMC dropped 40% TheStreet: What Charts Say for AMC Stock After 40% Plunge.
It feels like there is a push to keep people at home, or locked in at their jobs for companies like Google or Apple.
It feels like the big companies went all in on streaming, and are purposefully trying to get rid of theaters. Not that streaming is doing as well as everyone expected.
The poor fools are competing with yarr, and have to prove why it should be paid for.
Media has definitely gone the route of mass production of crap. This is obvious when you can’t even stream iconic movies from 30 years ago but can watch 20k hours of woke drivel that was cheap to make and license
Netflix figured out you can produce schlock on a budget to keep subscription numbers up. Now everyone's copying their homework, because producing quality content requires a degree of risk, but saying
is pretty cheap.