Thanks so much for posting this!! I will definitely be listening—super-excited to hear your voice on this topic

I expect that when the dust settles what we'll be getting is the Disneyfication of a big chunk of the theater experience—studios buying up theater chains and using them to show exclusively tentpoles. I don't think contemporary arthouse/indie cinema will cease to exist, but I do think it will become far more of a niche interest and that VOD will become the norm for anything below a certain budget.

That said, I don't think rep cinema is going anywhere—it remains consistently popular, and has much lower operational costs than chains do. I think the communal experience of seeing old movies on a big screen with others will endure, though it's certainly not out of the woods and things like Disney putting the Fox archive in its vault will make it harder.

Yay! No worries whatsoever—crossing fingers for the placements!

That just leaves Shadow then!