Following a year in which the theatrical movie-going experience was largely gone — due to COVID-19 shutting down cinemas for most of 2020 — movies were back this past year. Sort of.
According to consulting firm Deloitte’s Digital Media Trends 14th edition fall pulse survey, only 18 percent of U.S. consumers surveyed actually went to see a movie in a theater since the pandemic began.
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Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss return as Neo and Trinity in "The Matrix Resurrections." (COURTESY OF WARNER BROS.)
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MJ (Zendaya) and Spider-Man (Tom Holland) jump off a bridge in "Spider-Man: No Way Home." (COURTESY OF SONY PICTURES)
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Anthony Ramos and Melissa Barrera star in the film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's hit Broadway musical "In the Heights." (COURTESY OF WARNER BROS.)
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Andrew Garfield as playwright Jonathan Larson with director Lin-Manuel Miranda on the set of "Tick, Tick BOOM." (COURTESY OF NETFLIX)
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Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana in "Spencer." (COURTESY OF NEON)
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From left: RZA, Bob Odenkirk and Christopher Lloyd star in "Nobody." (COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL PICTURES)
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Ryan Reynolds stars in "Free Guy," one of the only major studio releases of the summer that isn't based on pre-existing intellectual property. (COURTESY OF 20TH CENTURY STUDIO)
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Emma Stone's Cruella de Vil is part fashion design, part performance artist in Disney's "Cruella." (COURTESY OF DISNEY)
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Abbi Jacobson as Katie Mitchell in "The Mitchells Vs. the Machine." (COURTESY OF NETFLIX)
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