WarnerMedia, HBO Max & The Future of Movie Theaters

“The future is there… looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.” ― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (2003)

“’All we are is dust in the wind,’ dude.” – Ted Theodore Logan

Make no mistake, when corporations do battle, we ultimately lose. Is that a little intense? Let’s back up a bit. Multinational telecom media giant AT&T Inc., which owns WarnerMedia, made a big decision to simultaneously release their 2021 movie slate both in theaters and on HBO Max, their supposedly “fledgling” subscription service, much to the chagrin of said theaters. Why does this make theaters mad?

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