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Today’s show is a discussion about the future of theater movies with film critic Aron Medeiros.   

Aron is a film critic for MauiWatch.com, a member of the Hawai'i Film Critic's Society, a commentator on Nerdwatch Podcast, and in general a self proclaimed Film Buff.  Aron joins Kenny and Del to discuss what is the future of the theater movie and why. 

The COVID pandemic caused theaters to close their doors in March of 2020.  As a result, a lot of studio films, films made by Disney, Warner Bros, Paramount, etc, were pushed back or withheld, or worse yet, released during the pandemic and left to chance.  The big studios that spend tens or hundreds of millions of dollars didn’t want their hopeful cash cows to rake in a paultry few million bucks in the box office when in normal times they could count on breaking even or tripling their investment despite their movie not being all that good.

As a result, of lack luster box office performance during 2021, Ben Affleck commented on his belief that the theater movie will be only profitable for event films like Marvel and Stars or franchise films with long continuing stories like Scream, Halloween, Indiana Jones, etc.  He further commented that even his film Argo (2012) would not perform well in the theaters today.  

This prompted the conversation recorded in today's show.  What is the theater movie going to look like in 2022?   What is the theater movie beyond 2022?  Will we ever see another box office success indie like Paranormal Activity?   Will studios spend $100 million dollars on comedy or drama if they are destined for streamers?  

Join us as we answer all this and more.    

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