The rub and paradox about Netflix is that the company is a streaming business, first and foremost. The company and the move towards streaming at home have made many critical about how streamers have killed or hurt the theatrical experience.
While incontestably true, the phenomenon is not specific to Netflix, nor is it the company’s aim to destroy the theatrical experience (or any streamers).
Netflix has bought key movie theaters in New York and L.A.— the Paris Theater in New York and Los Angeles’ Egyptian and Bay—and they used those both as repertory theaters and as a way to screen and highlight Netflix titles on the big screen.
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