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The future of movies after coronavirus

Business Daily

BBC

Business

4.4816 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

With cinemas closed, will our lockdown streaming habits change the film industry for good? Manuela Saragosa speaks to cinema owner Penn Ketchum about the draw of the big screen, and plans to bring audiences back to theatres. Entertainment consultant Gene Del Vecchio explains why we should expect more films to find their way directly to our living rooms after coronavirus, bypassing cinemas all together. And TV and film producer Brian Udovich describes the shutdown in Hollywood, and the challenges of running a film set under social distancing rules.

(Photo: Cinema popcorn, Credit: Getty Images)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC with me, Manuela Saragossa.

0:06.7

Coming up, do cinemas have a place in a post-lockdown world?

0:10.8

A lot of people are going to say, now that I've had the streaming experience,

0:13.7

and I can see how cheap it is, that I'm going to continue streaming.

0:18.6

And I do believe the theaters have been anti-consumer.

0:22.3

Film sets have also been shut down amid the coronavirus pandemic.

0:26.1

Could we actually run out of new things to watch?

0:29.0

I'm from the Midwest and I grew up on a farm.

0:31.5

And this is kind of like having a year where the crops went bad.

0:34.6

You know that there should be things being made right now,

0:37.5

and those things are not going to come out at a certain point.

0:40.0

That's all here in Business Daily from the BBC.

0:46.9

There's a world full of other trolls.

0:49.0

How different can they be?

0:52.7

I'm going to unite the six strings. By the end of my world tour, I'm going to unite the six strings.

0:55.8

By the end of my world tour, I'm going to turn all the trolls into rock zombies.

1:01.7

The trailer there to the movie Trolls World Tour, an animation centered around two trolls called

1:07.3

Poppy and Branch, who worked together to maintain peace between different musical tribes.

1:12.5

A classic, well, here's what the BBC's film reviewer Mark Commode had to say about it.

1:17.7

It's not terrible. It doesn't have anything like the musical or visual wit or invention of

1:22.1

happy feet. It doesn't have the pan-generational appeal of something like Toy Story or the Lego movie.

1:29.0

But it's kind of fine.

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