Movie theaters are starting to reopen, but will moviegoing ever be the same? That is the question so many of us are asking, particularly when it comes to the “going” part.
Most of us haven’t gone since the spring of 2020, despite the lure of films like Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet.” Billions in lost revenue and brushes with bankruptcy have put the health of movie-theater chains at risk.
Such is inevitable in the midst of a plague, alas, but what happens next? Will we worship again at those temples of cinema, or is avoidance of the same — as so many filmmakers fear — the new normal?