Could coronavirus-enforced streaming mean better blockbusters? - MW

There are a few more problematic places than local multiplexing if your goal is to avoid contracting Covid-19. This is why cinemas were among the first companies to be affected by a pandemic. And it can take a while before each of us can see anything on the big screen.

Hollywood is showing a brave face right now. So far, only one movie, Trolls World Tour, has gone from stage release to streaming platforms, although movies like Disney's Onward and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Universal's The Invisible Man, The Way Back Warner Bros and I Still Believe of Lionsgate, everything went to the small screen much faster than expected before the translation.

President of the U.S.-based National Association of Theater Owners John Fithian said this week that multi-channel owners really want Trolls World Tour to be a more exotic game than a New Hollywood index. But Warner Bros. has recently denied reports that the 1984 Wonder Woman superhero film could go straight to streaming platforms. The fact that studios are unlikely to continue honoring long-standing theater windows ensures that cinemas get a movie for a considerable period of time before being allowed to debut at home, when many channels cannot not be open.

Movies, unlike live concerts where a DJ will spin in a nightclub, can be enjoyed at home with minimal disruption to the experience. Not only is it capable of monetizing content streaming, but the public is used to paying for movies online. Therefore, it is inevitable that if a pandemic lasts more than a few months, more versions will leap to the small screen.

Could there be a silver lining for those of us who are waiting with breathtaking breaths for the next big science fiction, fantasy or comic book? For a while, it was clear that Hollywood had reached such a level of technical excellence that movie buffs could no longer be disturbed if the film had no logical sense, or had terrible lines. horrible and awkward game. How else to explain the success of Transformers Michael Bay movies or DC superheroes like Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice?

Imagine for a moment what Hollywood might look like in a world without cinemas. We will lose moments like the dazzling underwater fighting scenes in Blade Runner 2049, the intense beat of Hans Zimmer's beautiful bruising score that compresses the eardrum in ecstasy during the film's history. Roger Deakins' competition was synchronized with fire. Our skull with its high definition intensity. Denis Villeneuve's film, is a delightfully perfect watch on the small screen, but at a high-end cinema, it is a religious experience. Similarly, James Cameron's Avatar, there are detractors, but few can forget the first time they saw it in 3D blistering on the big screen.

On the other hand, could the shift to live streaming lead to some interesting changes in the way filmmakers approach their art? Imagine if the creative team behind The Mandalorian was in charge of making the latest Star Wars movie, Rise of Skywalker, and took the time and patience to come up with a suitable final for Long-space operas, instead of being ruined, are too hasty to introduce themselves with no new ideas.

There is so much to hope that we can see a soothing transition to an idea theater through the spectacle. It has recently been able to feel how science fiction works well on small screens, from shows like Westworld and Black Mirror to live-streaming movies like I Am Mother. While both have thrilling and fair action-sharing features, these are mostly dialogue-based concoctions, completely fun on laptops. When similar ideas are eventually translated for multiplexing, the result is often a lot more lazy, as if the focus was on making those high octane works really pop up with storytelling costs. The best we can hope for is a semi-decent Terminator movie every few years.

Perhaps in the coming years, we will see this stage as a turning point for big-budget cinema, as the closure of multiple channels over the long term has encouraged filmmakers to try another path to take. Their ideas come to the audience. When, forced to lower the theater volume, Hollywood finally realized that it needed to increase the imagination.

MW