Naman Ramachandran Disney’s global distribution president Cathleen Taff has said cinemas will need to “over-deliver” when they reopen, but that the “at-home experience” is not sustainable in the long term.Speaking at a virtual CineEurope panel on Wednesday, the executive revealed she was bracing for “a little scepticism” about the reopening process, and highlighted, “The challenge for us as a production company is that films are going to have to stand out.”“[Audiences] want to dip into it, and so we are going to have to over-deliver on why people are going in the first place,” said Taff. “It has got to be an immersive story; it has got to have characters they connect to emotionally, and then have that shared community experience they can.
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