Commentary: When the coronavirus fades, will we find any trace of it at the movies?
When crises and cataclysms strike, they do their damage and then enter the bloodstream of everything we watch.
What we see, often, is popular culture running the other way. With the film, television and streaming realms suddenly and radically reordered in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of us order up bread, circuses and "Tiger King." Something low, and tasty.
It feels like a very long time since I saw Vin Diesel in "Bloodshot" March 10, at the IMAX Theater on Chicago's Navy Pier, sitting in close proximity with moviegoers wondering if they should've been there.
How will the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 play out at the movies and on home screens next year and beyond?
It's impure guesswork at best. It's far easier to make a list of how COVID-19 has turned every film made before 2020 into a compilation of social-distancing misjudgments. "I watch old games on ESPN, and seeing a stadium filled with people actually gives me anxiety," says
