Convince me I’m wrong: Movie theaters will all be dead and closed in 20 years, if not much earlier.
The 90-120 minute story telling format MAY survive. But the golden age of movies, as we have known them, is all but dead. And movie theaters themselves will soon go the way of Blockbuster.
The Internet has changed so many things. It has touched and impacted nearly every aspect of our lives. For those of us who were alive during its birth, we all knew it would be a game changer. But I don’t think any of us anticipated the extent to which it would change the world.
In the entertainment industry, everything has been impacted. Radio. Music. Television. Movies. Journalism. None of these look the same way they did in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s, and even 00’s. They have all been radically transformed.
With the advent of all the streaming platforms (Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Hulu, Max, etc) the old familiar format of telling a story in 90-120 minutes has faded into the background, replaced by what we still call “TV shows” for lack of a better term. The ability to tell much longer and more in-depth stories broken down into 45 minute chunks is continuing to prove much more favorable to the majority of us.
Marquee shows such as Lost, Breaking Bad, and Game of Thrones (to name just a few) have proven that this format is here to stay.
I think we are only a few years away from the start of movie theaters shutting down slowly at first. And then in-mass. And well within 20 years (and that’s being generous) they will all be dead and gone.
Convince me I’m wrong.
The 90-120 minute story telling format MAY survive. But the golden age of movies, as we have known them, is all but dead. And movie theaters themselves will soon go the way of Blockbuster.
The Internet has changed so many things. It has touched and impacted nearly every aspect of our lives. For those of us who were alive during its birth, we all knew it would be a game changer. But I don’t think any of us anticipated the extent to which it would change the world.
In the entertainment industry, everything has been impacted. Radio. Music. Television. Movies. Journalism. None of these look the same way they did in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s, and even 00’s. They have all been radically transformed.
With the advent of all the streaming platforms (Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Hulu, Max, etc) the old familiar format of telling a story in 90-120 minutes has faded into the background, replaced by what we still call “TV shows” for lack of a better term. The ability to tell much longer and more in-depth stories broken down into 45 minute chunks is continuing to prove much more favorable to the majority of us.
Marquee shows such as Lost, Breaking Bad, and Game of Thrones (to name just a few) have proven that this format is here to stay.
I think we are only a few years away from the start of movie theaters shutting down slowly at first. And then in-mass. And well within 20 years (and that’s being generous) they will all be dead and gone.
Convince me I’m wrong.