{"id":203269,"date":"2026-01-07T10:47:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T10:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=203269"},"modified":"2026-01-07T10:47:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T10:47:50","slug":"have-we-reached-the-tipping-point-where-movies-could-stop-being-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=203269","title":{"rendered":"Have We Reached the Tipping Point Where Movies Could Stop Being Movies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first moment in my life when people began to talk about movies as if they could go away tomorrow was right after the pandemic struck. At that point, no one knew which end was up, but with America\u2019s movie theaters having closed down, movies had gone away \u2014 at least temporarily&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/columns\/the-tipping-point-where-movies-could-stop-being-movies-1236613367\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first moment in my life when people began to talk about movies as if<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203269-have-we-reached-the-tipping-point-where-movies-could-stop-being-movies.jpg",1000,666,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203269-have-we-reached-the-tipping-point-where-movies-could-stop-being-movies-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203269-have-we-reached-the-tipping-point-where-movies-could-stop-being-movies-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203269-have-we-reached-the-tipping-point-where-movies-could-stop-being-movies-768x511.jpg",640,426,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203269-have-we-reached-the-tipping-point-where-movies-could-stop-being-movies.jpg",640,426,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203269-have-we-reached-the-tipping-point-where-movies-could-stop-being-movies.jpg",1000,666,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203269-have-we-reached-the-tipping-point-where-movies-could-stop-being-movies.jpg",1000,666,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203269-have-we-reached-the-tipping-point-where-movies-could-stop-being-movies.jpg",1000,666,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203269-have-we-reached-the-tipping-point-where-movies-could-stop-being-movies-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/203269-have-we-reached-the-tipping-point-where-movies-could-stop-being-movies-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/203270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}