Stupor.
and then the tremors.
In early December, when Warner Bros.
announces, without warning shot, that all its films scheduled for 2021, including the highly anticipated
Matrix 4
and
Dune
, will be broadcast on its video-on-demand service HBO Max at the same time as at the cinema, Hollywood is rocking for good.
The legendary studio has just shattered the foundations of a secular industry, of which dark rooms were the central pillar.
Until now, a film started on the big screen, before continuing its existence on the small ones: television, computer, laptop… Warner Bros. has just changed the rules of the cinematographic game by decreeing the simultaneous distribution of a feature film in the cinema and at home.
Between filming cancellations, confinements, rooms closed or reduced to half of their capacity, the coronavirus pandemic has obviously forced all the major majors to adapt quickly in order to compensate for the drop in revenue.
Hollywood is
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