

That is to say, America’s largest theater chain and one of Hollywood’s five major studios have agreed to put aside their well-publicized differences to strike a historic deal permitting Universal’s movie releases to stream on paid video-on-demand platforms a mere 17 days after they are shown in theaters.

In a summer when global pandemic has plagued the movie industry with a rash of theater closures, turning soundstages into ghost towns and infecting the global filmmaking and distributing ecosystem with job losses, AMC and Universal have agreed to roll up the window.
