The Future of Movie Theaters In the Age of Coronavirus: A Dialogue

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterHulu is decking the halls for “Happiest Season,” a rare mainstream holiday comedy centered on two women in love.The streamer has picked up domestic distribution rights to the Clea DuVall-directed film. Original distributor and co-financier Sony Pictures will retain rights in Canada and the rest of the world.The move is unsurprising as the coronavirus pandemic leaves many American movie theaters shuttered.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

Donald Trump is an “overt racist” whose behaviour has emboldened others to reveal their “inner prejudices”.The satirist, who is promoting the sequel to Borat that lands on October 23, also accused the US president of being an “overt fascist”.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticThe sheer range of genres represented by this week’s new releases — from Liam Neeson thriller “Honest Thief” to romantic weepie “2 Hearts” — suggests that distributors of all kinds are doing their best to give audiences the kind of selection they enjoyed before the lockdown.Well, nearly all kinds of distributors.The major studios are still playing it safe and holding their tentpoles for a time when they can pack the megaplexes, although Paramount has stepped in

Jim LeBrecht, the co-director of Sundance doc Crip Camp, Politician actor Ryan J. Haddad and artist-filmmakerTourmaline are amongthe Disability Futures Fellows, announced by the Ford and Andrew W.

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Gerard Butler‘s latest movie, Greenland, is skipping theaters entirely.

Lise Pedersen “À la recherche de la Lumière” – the French title of Oliver Stone’s memoirs, “Chasing the Light: How I Fought My Way into Hollywood,” couldn’t find a more fitting place than Lyon’s Lumière Festival to make headlines.The U.S.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorBleecker Street has acquired North American rights to Harry Macqueen’s second feature, Supernova, starring Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci.The pic follows Sam (Colin Firth) and Tusker (Stanley Tucci), partners of 20 years, who are travelling across England in their old campervan visiting friends, family and places from their past.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterFilmmaker Garrett Bradley is known for tackling pressing issues facing the Black community with her work. Her documentary short America painted a portrait of how Black people are represented in American culture while Alone, investigated the impact of mass incarceration on the modern Black family through the eyes of a single mother in New Orleans.

Disney is rerouting Pixar’s “Soul” to Disney+, where it will debut exclusively on the platform on Christmas Day.

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Festival season continues to ebb and flow with the AFI Festival hitting in just a few weeks, making for the discourse around film to stray from the persistent doom and gloom of all of the rescheduling and push backs of previously scheduled releases for theaters.

As the business week begins today, we’re already seeing massive financial implications from the news of “No Time to Die” being delayed and Cineworld shutting down its US and UK cinemas.

The fallout of the “No Time to Die” delay has had an absolutely massive effect on the future of the theatrical business. Not only is it likely that other films will move out of 2020 and take their chances in 2021, but Cineworld (parent company of Regal Cinemas and the second-largest theater chain in the world) has also decided to close its doors beginning this week due to the lack of business.

Following Saturday's news that theater giant and Regal parent company Cineworld will temporarily close its cinemas in the U.S. and U.K., the company has now said a decision is still pending.

President Donald Trump is waving to his supporters.

Variety.The new closures, set to take effect as soon as next week, come just a few months after the company began reopening its locations amid the coronavirus pandemic earlier this summer. Cineworld operates 128 venues in the U.K.