There have always been sweeping Hollywood epics – Cleopatra topped four hours when it premiered in 1963 – but the standard length for a movie in cinemas was once 90 to 120 minutes. Now many movies are a test of endurance oscars movies cinemas films
, the director’s cut that started streaming last year, was literally bigger thanZack Snyder’s Justice League, right, was longer than Ben-Hur at four hours, while Avengers: Endgame came in at three hours.The chief executive of Palace Cinemas, Benjamin Zeccola, said films started getting longer when the industry moved from 35mm to digital projection almost a decade ago.
“Through their producers, they made sure directors would cut their films to a responsible length that optimised the entertainment value and eliminated any unnecessary cost of prints,” Zeccola said.Potential Films With streaming services wanting to attract big-name directors – and subscribers accustomed to watching series – there has been no incentive for Netflix to tell Martin Scorsese to trimBruce Isaacs, associate professor of film studies at the University of Sydney, said studios had let movies become “dramatically bloated” so they could become cinema events.
“I think there’s a desire, just in the last few years, to throw in as much as you can because you’re competing with a whole new medium in digital streaming.”
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