How the Movie Industry Will Change Due to the Wave of Streaming Releases

Christmas Day has brought us some high profile movie releases, but they won’t be coming to a theater near you. Instead, streaming is the best way to watch new movies this year. HBO Max is streaming Wonder Woman 1984, Disney+ is streaming Soul, and Netflix is streaming We Can Be Heroes. It seems blockbuster films are no longer reserved for the big screen. To the dismay of Hollywood, this is going to have a longterm impact.

Movies with A-list celebrities and enormous budgets have been forced to delay their releases or settle for a streaming releases. Perhaps this is going to force us into a movie revolutions, but at the very least, it is forcing us to reevaluate the cinema experience.

The longer we go without cinemas showing movies, the less important it will be for customers to view movies in the theater. There are many markets that can benefit from this shift, and we’ll start to see the movie industry embrace the streaming revolution. This means the consumer will also see some changes, both good and bad.

Some of these changes may be long overdue, and other changes are thanks to the “new normal”. The current pandemic has accelerated the streaming revolution, and no vaccine can reverse the damage done to movie theaters.

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