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James K.'s avatar

Fun Spielberg connection - compare the "editing the family vacation" scene in The Fabelmans to Cruise manipulating the pre-cog images in Minority Report. Both of them spinning the wheels of the past to find a clue in the footage

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With regards to empty theaters, part of me wonders if this is where streaming might actually make a difference. I’d be curious to see what internal metrics show, but in my experience, movies that have been in theaters tend to get a lot more attention when they drop on a streaming service. To compare two movies from the same service this year, Glass Onion, a movie that had an extended/wide release by Netflix standards, felt like an event when it came to Netflix, whereas The Gray Man came and went without anyone talking about it.

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