While epics like The Lord of the Rings will always belong on the big screen, producers and directors are increasingly tailoring their output to online viewers – even allowing them to direct their own ‘experience’
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Every year, stats show that young people are shunning the box office in favour of online viewing as streaming, legal and illegal, continues to grow in popularity. For now, films are distributed in cinemas as well as on demand, but there have been howls of consternation from some directors, who argue their movies weren’t designed to be watched on an iPhone. Indeed, going to the multiplex is so different from the experience of watching on a smaller screen, that at some point we can probably expect a splintering of the industry, where films are made either for the cinema or for other mediums.
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Related: Should Hollywood be afraid of the march of Netflix?
Every year, stats show that young people are shunning the box office in favour of online viewing as streaming, legal and illegal, continues to grow in popularity. For now, films are distributed in cinemas as well as on demand, but there have been howls of consternation from some directors, who argue their movies weren’t designed to be watched on an iPhone. Indeed, going to the multiplex is so different from the experience of watching on a smaller screen, that at some point we can probably expect a splintering of the industry, where films are made either for the cinema or for other mediums.
Related: The Square – review | Peter Bradshaw
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 10 hours ago.