Remember this? Wouldn't it be nice to go back to it?
Every January, I write a movie trends piece laying out my expectations for the year ahead in film and television: what trends I expect to see, where the industry needs to improve, what we can expect to change and what’s likely to stay the same. Does that even apply in 2021?
Here’s the one I wrote last year, before the pandemic derailed literally every aspect of the entertainment industry and rendered all of these things theoretical. The only thing that came to pass, ironically enough, was my prediction that “the grown-ups will stay home” – though I was referring to Netflix aggressively courting auteurs like Ben Wheatley and Gina Prince-Bythewood for in-house projects that would draw older viewers to their service.