In a week when worldwide box-office takings collapsed, much has been made of the death of cinema. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga joined a flops’ walk of shame recently trodden by Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt’s The Fall Guy and Ryan Reynolds’s If. And while Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes should break even, it will be the least successful film in that stretched franchise. All hope now rests on Despicable Me 4. Glance ahead to June, July and August, and Hollywood looks as though it will have less of a summer, more of a bummer.
But we’ve been here before, when people first got TV or when the first video game was played, and cinema always survives — even thrives. Hollywood
