‘I’m kind of lazy.’ Why We Aren’t Going Back to the Movies

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🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The pandemic, along with the rise of streaming services, shifted the way we experience movies. Theater ticket sales are still down, and many folks prefer to watch from the comfort of their own home. Is staying home bad for the movies? Will studios simply bombard us with sequels and superhero movies to get us back? We hear from Franklin Leonard, founder of The Black List, about the state of cinema and the cultural necessity of going to the movies. And he tries to convince a very reluctant Audie Cornish to go back to the movie theater. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know who's having a really good year?
0:03.4	This guy.
0:04.1	I mean, I think when we go to a movie theater, we make a deal with ourselves to have...
0:08.0	This was James Cameron on the red carpet at the Golden Globe just a few weeks ago
0:11.9	when everyone was predicting what we now know.
0:15.3	That Avatar, The Way of Water, was on its way to multiple Oscar nominations
0:20.1	and more than $2 billion at the box
0:23.4	office. What does that feel like to have three of the top grossing movies of all time that
0:29.7	you've directed? I'm kind of not thinking of it in those terms. I'm thinking of it more in the terms
0:34.3	of we're back to theaters around the world. People are going back to
0:38.3	theaters, even going to theaters in China where they're, you know, where they're having this huge
0:42.1	COVID surge, you know, so it's like we're saying as a society, we need this. We need to go to
0:48.5	movie theaters, you know, and have that experience. Enough with the streaming already, you know.
0:53.5	Tired of sitting on my ass.
0:55.7	Okay, let me just draw a line under that last sentence.
0:59.5	Enough with the streaming already. Tired of sitting on my ass. Because fundamentally, this
1:06.0	is where Hollywood would like you to be. They want you to go back to the movie theaters. And the truth is,
1:13.7	many of us aren't there yet. We're really doing this. Yeah, go ahead. I'm Courtney McCormick. I'm a
1:19.7	makeup artist at CNN. Why haven't you gone back to the movies? I like to be in the comfort of my own
1:25.6	home and my pajamas with my food and my kids on my couch and my animals.
1:31.3	And I'm kind of lazy.
1:34.3	Courtney, by the way, is not lazy.
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