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> “I’ll see you in the theaters,” the actor and director John Krasinski said in a video message before a new trailer for “A Quiet Place 2” (the movie opens on May 28). “Marvel movies are made to be seen on the big screen,” Kevin Feige, Marvel’s chief executive, reminded audiences before showing footage of new films.

> The box office for April hit $190 million, up 300 percent since February. That’s a welcome relief to the South African director Neill Blomkamp, whose new horror film “Demonic” from the indie outfit IFC will debut only in theaters at the end of August. “This brings me joy,” he said in a video message. “I want people to be terrified in a darkened theater.”

> [J.J. Abrams] sought [to remind] that going to the movies is different from watching TV. (...) “The relationship with the TV is you’re the parent and the TV is the child,” he said. “It’s in your house. It’s smaller than you, you can turn it off, change it and control it.” When you go to the movies, Mr. Abrams said, “You’re the child and it’s the parent. You look up to it. It controls you and it is taking you where it wants to take you. I think we all want to be kids again.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/business/media/movie-theaters.html