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Will Movies Survive? An Ankler Special

As Bob II is Flayed for Weak Disney+ Growth Amid Streaming's Pyrrhic War, it's Time for a Few Meditations on the Future (or Non-Future) of Film

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Richard Rushfield
Nov 13, 2021
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Abandoned Theater/Middleton CT- Credit- Joe Mabel

William Goldman's maxim that nobody knows anything here has endured as Hollywood's favorite self-description, because it so perfectly captures the futility of trying to run an honest business in a messed-up, nonsensical space like entertainment.

But reading any Sunday evening box office round-up almost fee…

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