cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25792467

Hollywood has positioned 2025 as a rebound year for theaters, but will upcoming blockbusters deliver as promised?

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The end of the film industry has been right around the corner since at least the invention of television.

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      3 days ago

      That was the entire reason for widescreen/cinemascope.

      Though I do love the (possibly apocryphal) story of why we were stuck with 4:3 for so long.

      Someone apparently asked Edison how big to make the cells on a film strip and he answered “I don’t know, an inch by 3/4ers?”