A Total Breakdown of All the Easter Eggs
December 12, 2025 at 02:25AMWith Netflix getting ready to assimilate acquire Warner Bros. (and presumably to force Looney Toons, The Matrix, and various Hogwarts alumni into streaming servitude), the fate of theatrical film is once again being debated. Not so fast! As long as there’s breath in A.S. Hamrah’s lungs, or at least power in his typing fingers, the esteemed and iconoclastic critic will fight against the dying of the night at the movies.
When Revenge of the Sith and Jaws were rereleased this year on their respective twentieth and fiftieth anniversaries, they cleaned up at the box office, despite being available streaming. But being number one at the movies is still not enough for Smilin’ Ted Sarandos to press pause on his endless sales pitch for staying at home. Releasing movies in theaters, said the Netflix co-CEO as moviegoers lined up to see decades-old films, is “an outmoded idea for most people.” One wonders who Sarandos means when he talks about most people. As early as 1954 the powerhouse screenwriter Ben Hecht was referring to Americans as “the TV watchers,” and he hardly considered that a reason to destroy theatrical exhibition. But he wasn’t a co-CEO.
from Longreads https://longreads.com/2025/12/11/breakdown-of-all-the-easter-eggs/
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