If movie theaters don& #39;t survive, it will be due to the pandemic & those (especially in America) that failed to contain it, period. It wasn& #39;t streaming, it wasn& #39;t the studios, it wasn& #39;t the theaters "failing to adapt." It was a plague that led to a year w/ no new blickbusters.

It was an unplanned and unexpected event that led to no new products being released for a business that relies entirely on those products, partially due to governmental demands that their businesses be closed sans any financial assistance.

Yes they, like many businesses, had a thin margin, but theatrical moviegoing earned $42.5 billion in revenue last year. If the theaters don& #39;t survive, it won& #39;t be because TENET wasn& #39;t popular enough or MULAN went to Disney+.

It will be because unforeseen circumstances which were not successfully fixed (due to arguable willful US governmental negligence) prevented theaters from doing the singular thing, for over/under a year, that theaters do to make money. Everything else is trivia and a distraction.