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Misunderstanding The Future of Streaming & Theatrical Exhibition
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Misunderstanding The Future of Streaming & Theatrical Exhibition

David Poland
May 05, 2020
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"Theatrical is over."

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have been listening to this bullshit for decades. And if you read David Puttnam's "Movies & Money" (from 1997!), you will see that this line of gloom & doom and hipster pronouncements about The Future started coming up a century ago.

This morning, Indiewire published a piece by Anne Thompson, who is fully committe…

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