Last week, Warner Bros Pictures announced a simultaneous release of all its 2021 movies in theatres and on its HBO Max streaming platform. While some professionals see this as the end of the movie theatres, Lumière's General Manager, Alexander Vandeputte, believes that VOD platforms will never replace cinemas but could generate new audiences.

Theaters are closed but the cinema continues to exist as we have discussed with cinema professionals. Tinne Bral and Christian Thomas from Imagine film and also Olivier Van den Broeck, who runs The Searchers, are distributors in Belgium. How are they reacting to this unprecedented and, above all, astounding crisis? The screen doesn't seem so black...

Les salles sont fermées mais le cinéma continue d’exister comme nous l’ont démontré des professionnels de ce même cinéma et dont nous transmettons les mots dans cet article.  Tinne Bral et Christian Thomas de Imagine film mais aussi Olivier Van den Broeck qui dirige The Searchers, sont distributeurs en Belgique. Comment réagissent-ils à cette crise inédite et, surtout, stupéfiante ? L’écran ne semble pas si noir…