Have Netflix and co taken over cinema?

Priyesh
ILLUMINATION
Published in
3 min readOct 26, 2020

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Do you remember going to the cinemas for birthday parties and family events? I do. As a kid whenever it was one of my classmates birthday it would typically be a trip to the cinema followed by a meal out! The level of excitement I felt on those days was incomparable, and the next day at school it would definitely be a talking point during lunch!

Fast forward ten years, Netflix arrived on the scene and so did the likes of Amazon Prime, Hulu and Disney +. Of recent Netflix and Amazon Prime have started producing movies, which raises the question…

Has it marked the beginning of the end for cinemas…

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If you're from the United Kingdom and the US then you must know that Cineworld had recently closed all its cinemas on a temporary basis due to films such as James Bond and WonderWoman 1984 having its release dates pushed back to 2021. Although this is terrible news for those who make a living in the industry, is this how things could be from now on?

Here is what I think…

Potentially! I am a huge Marvel and DC fan, so I couldn’t even begin to imagine watching the likes of Endgame and ‘The batman” on streaming platforms…

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