ESSENTIAL INDUSTRY AND AWARD NEWS
FEBRUARY 04, 2021
The Year TV Finally Ate Movies
It’s official: The pandemic has turbocharged the cultural dominance of television, as well as the shrinking influence of movies. “TV has been steadily ascendant for years, but COVID lifted the medium further aloft—and not just because most movie theaters were indefinitely closed,” Joy Presswrites. “Movies represent special, one-time-only journeys into another world; right now, two hours is a drop in the bucket of what seems like eternity. The giant, unbroken blocks of quarantine time allow viewers to sink into ongoing series, like a warm embracing bath.”
Elsewhere in HWD, the Screen Actors Guild Awards announce their 2021 nominees; Richard Lawson and Katey Rich break down a virtual Sundance Film Festival; Jordan Hoffman chats with the director of the mind-bending documentary A Glitch in the Matrix; and Cassie da Costa recommends another eerie film: the Sundance debut Strawberry Mansion.
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