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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Dec 2020

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Geek Elite Media

      1. Do you want to commit a perfect crime? Here's one tactic: you take a natural catastrophe like the pandemic & use it as a cover for a destructive act: i.e. the media giants are currently using Covid as an excuse to kill theatrical moving going.https://twitter.com/GeekEliteMedia/status/1334575591278989314 …

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      WarnerMedia is putting its entire 2021 theatrical slate on HBO Max for their respective first month of release, concurrent with a global cinema release. https://deadline.com/2020/12/warner-bros-2021-movie-slate-hbo-max-matrix-4-dune-in-the-heights-1234649760/ … pic.twitter.com/LEcyMZDIao
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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Dec 2020

      2. Media giants like Disney, Warner & Netflix clearly want streaming to become the dominant mode of experiencing movies, with theater-going reduced to being one subsidiary "platform" among many. There's also the hope of replacing movie chains with new studio run chains.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Dec 2020

      3. The war on movie theaters is being conducted on many fronts. There's also Disney making life hard for rep theaters by not allowing them access to its vast catalogue (which now includes Fox). The goal is to squeeze out alternative venues.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Dec 2020

      4. Well, what's wrong with movie theaters dying off or becoming secondary? Isn't the main thing the content of the movies? Why not let people enjoy movies on home network, on laptops, on cell phones?

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Dec 2020

          5. Like McLuhan, I think the media is the message: that the central movie going experience of immersive viewing with strangers is very much what movies are: it's the experience of being in a collective waking dream.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 4 Dec 2020

          6. With some help from @aoscott, @ManohlaDargis, @JoSchneller, the late P. Kael, & the late M. Farber, I try to lay out the case for theatrical movie going:https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/movies-streaming-covid-theatres/ …

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        1. Shrödinger's Dad‏ @ruidh 4 Dec 2020
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          I don't think they will ever die off completely. We can't do it now but eventually we will want to leave the house. Date Night will always be a thing.

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        1. 𝓞𝔀𝓷𝓡𝓾𝓵𝓮𝓼  🇪🇸 🌹 🇺🇲‏ @OwnRulesToo 4 Dec 2020
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          It's the way of the present, streaming in your home theaters. Movie theaters will become secondary and will have to feature innovations not available to the average home. I suspect some small theaters will succeed as a niche market while chains will offer the latest tech.

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        1. Juchey Fruit‏ @deadonatoliet 4 Dec 2020
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          Isolationism takes hold

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        1. richard hansil‏ @hansil 4 Dec 2020
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          One factor to consider is the role indie theaters play in small towns. @rfcmovies is the only art house theater in NW Louisiana and provides classes on film production/history/more the community wouldn’t otherwise have (along with films they couldn’t otherwise see).

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