Many of us will remember 2020 as the year that the theatrical exhibition business irrevocably changed. Our last blog covered the landmark agreement between Universal Pictures and AMC, the world’s largest theater chain, to reduce the theatrical exhibition window from three months to just over three weeks. Now a New York federal judge has granted
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The Screening Room: Sean Parker Wants to Disrupt the Movie Business
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Theatrical distribution has managed so far largely to resist wholesale transformation by digital delivery technologies. TV is already in the living room, and most content is owned by the networks themselves. Theatrical exhibition, on the other hand, is controlled by independent exhibitors, who have…