A Year Later... Movie Content Scoreboard

Last year, on July 23, I wrote the first "Movie Content Scoreboard." I am a little early with this final look at the pandemic effect on choices made on theatrical releases.

Front-and-center in the column was a list of The Untouchables... films that seemed, at that point, too significant throw to the whims of exclusive streaming or a theatrical release destabilized by the pandemic. There were 18 titles on the list.

In the year since, two were sold to streamers (Coming 2 America, Connected), two got sucked into Kilar's Folly - aka the Warner Media dump of all 2021 Warner Bros. theatrical (we'll see) to HBO Max - (Wonder Woman 1984, The Conjuring 3), 2 were pushed to Disney+ (Mulan PVOD, Soul free), and one was pushed out by Universal with a short theatrical window before PVOD and then, VOD, but with a much longer theatrical life than expected (The Croods 2).

For those counting at home, that would be seven total "untouchable" movies pushing to new platforms in the year, four of which had no…