this us only right?

f*** this is sad asf.

There’s never any good news these days 😔

Every time you think anti-trust in the US is dead, it manages to die a little more.

Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine" is a powerful concept for explaining this:

the exploitation of national crises (disasters or upheavals) to establish controversial and questionable policies, while citizens are too distracted (emotionally and physically) to engage and develop an adequate response, and resist effectively.

Cinema is the most capitalized artform. I guess it's only fitting.

Thought this was old
Netflix has a small theater here in NYC and LA has an Amazon one

Disney wins again

feel like streaming is gonna be the only way smaller studios / filmmakers will be able to drop their movies in the future

Does this have any effect on international cinema?

no

well it potentially could have indirect effects to independent films globally if they're not prioritised in usa cinemas. Because theyre losing a lot of their audience and revenue etc.

Do movie studios even want to own theaters at this point? Seems like theaters were/are already on their last legs

mfs really turning over major anti-trust laws just for cash

we're living in the second age of robber barons

this is true, but i dont expect them to abondon everything just bc america might

In the end it don’t matter, because in 25 years movies will be generated by AI bots who have a better grasp on art and cinema than any human. Enjoy human art while you can !