By When people talk about cinema these days, so many seem to discuss it as a dying art form and with a not particularly bright outlook for the future.
With streaming everywhere, film windows collapsed, much of the audience adapted to seeing films at home, and the basic cost of living these days – getting out to the movies seems trickier than ever.
Filmmaker Denis Villeneuve takes the opposite approach, the director more assured now than he has been in recent times that the theatrical experience will survive as it fulfills a basic human need. Speaking to IndieWire, he says:
“I’m very optimistic. I believe that the big screen experience and theater experience will prevail. I know it has been challenged in the past years with streaming and the pandemic, but I think that we’ll find a balance and equilibrium.
I think that we need, in society, spaces where we can be all together, live emotions together. It can be a rock concert, it can be a play in a theater, or an opera or whatever. It’s very healthy for humans to be together to share emotions and ideas together.”
The comments come as the box-office just had its best Thanksgiving ever with a huge turnout for multiple films. Yet even with that turnout, overall box-office for the year is still likely to be behind 2024 by the end of December.
There’s also the obvious issue that blockbusters are what’s saving cinema and a mid-budget adult drama, like some of Villeneuve’s most acclaimed films like “Prisoners” and “Sicario” – just aren’t making profit at cinemas anymore bar the odd exception.
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