The Future of Film: Big Screen or Stream?
Open to Debate
Open to Debate
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🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:31.8 | This is open to debate. I'm John Donvan. Hi, everybody. So, did you stream anything good lately? Lots of options, that's for sure. |
| 0:39.8 | There's Netflix and Hulu and Disney Plus and Paramount and Peacock and Apple and Amazon. Movies in |
| 0:45.7 | your living room, movies in your bedroom, movies on your phone. Yep, a lot of movies. But it's not |
| 0:50.9 | going to the movies, is it, where you have the big screen and the popcorn and the |
| 0:56.0 | crowd around you on all sides and maybe sometimes even a standing ovation when it's a really |
| 0:59.6 | good film and you're a part of it? That's a whole different experience. And until what seems like |
| 1:04.9 | about 10 minutes ago, going to the movies was how you got to see movies. Okay, of course, |
| 1:13.0 | there was the period of VHS and DVD rental, |
| 1:19.0 | but that didn't last forever. But being in a movie theater, a theater, a cinema, that's got a hundred years of habit going for it. But is streaming in the process of sending that habit to |
| 1:24.7 | extinction? Is the big screen movie experience on its way to becoming obsolete? |
| 1:30.8 | Or is there just something so unique and timeless about that experience that there's no way it's going to go away? |
| 1:36.4 | Well, we think there is something to debate in these questions, and we're going to do that right as we roar into the Oscars. |
| 1:42.7 | So welcome to a debate. |
| 1:43.9 | You're going to want to hear whether you are a |
| 1:45.2 | streaming fan or a moviehouse fan or both, which we are framing this way. The Future of Film, |
| 1:52.1 | big screen or stream. Let's meet our debaters. First, to answer the question by saying that the big |
| 1:58.2 | screen is the answer to the question. I want to welcome Hawk Koch Koch. Hawk, you're a member of the board of AMC theaters. You are also a veteran film |
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