The star says his Best Picture winner would likely be a limited series if it were made today.
No one can deny that the pandemic has fundamentally altered moviegoing andexacerbated box office trendsalready in motion.
“That wasn’t that long ago.
Ben Affleck in ‘Argo’.Warner Bros.
It would be a limited series.”
And there’ll be 40 movies a year theatrically, probably all IP, sequel, animated."
It’s a shift, as he sees it, that’s been a long time coming.
We were just talking aboutNarcos: Mexico,Succession,Mare of Easttown.
There’s these amazing things being done on streamers.Roma!
It’s not just some formulaic TV procedural, like when we were kids.
And you could only watch it like my dad, on an 11-inch black and white TV."
1 on the iTunes movies chart.
“I’ve had bad movies that didn’t work and I didn’t blink.
I know why people didn’t go, because they weren’t good.
But I liked what we did.
I like what we had to say.
I’m really proud of it.
So I was really confused.
And then to see that it did well on streaming, I thought, ‘Well, there you go.
That’s where the audience is.'”
Additional reporting by Leah Greenblatt.
