Fillumgeek
Prominent Member
I know we all love films and cinema but on a human level, the Tweets about Odeon staff and Cineworld staff are so so sad to read. To be losing your job now, in October 2020, is a terrible thing for all those folk. They can bounce back but the road is long and hard.
The higher level you go, that talk is normally about distribution and how Cinema will survive long term. But the path to getting there is a horrible one.
Business simply doesn't allow a catastrophic loss of earnings for 7-15 months or whatever it turns out to be. And let's not forget, when it comes to 2021 and 2022, will people be keen to actually work in cinemas after this culling?
I'm an optimistic person, and cinema remains a wonderful vibrant medium, as full of life as ever, but what we come back to I don't know. You have to wonder whether the multiplexes of the future will be like some underground stations, mostly automated places, with very few staff there.
Something will be in place to watch movies publically, because the profit of several billion dollars worth of product depend on it.
But we don't know what that is yet AND who will own it.
The higher level you go, that talk is normally about distribution and how Cinema will survive long term. But the path to getting there is a horrible one.
Business simply doesn't allow a catastrophic loss of earnings for 7-15 months or whatever it turns out to be. And let's not forget, when it comes to 2021 and 2022, will people be keen to actually work in cinemas after this culling?
I'm an optimistic person, and cinema remains a wonderful vibrant medium, as full of life as ever, but what we come back to I don't know. You have to wonder whether the multiplexes of the future will be like some underground stations, mostly automated places, with very few staff there.
Something will be in place to watch movies publically, because the profit of several billion dollars worth of product depend on it.
But we don't know what that is yet AND who will own it.