Bob Iger may have led Disney to historic highs at the box office, but in an interview on CNN+, the former CEO added his name to the list of skeptics who think the movie business won’t ever get back to what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic.
“COVID got people a lot more comfortable watching New Media, app-based media in the home,” Iger told CNN’s Chris Wallace in an interview for the network’s new streaming service. “While I don’t think it duplicates the experience in the theater, it is good enough.
“And when you consider what you have to do to go to a theater, which is drive there or commute there in some form and pay for transportation, parking, etc.,
Bob Iger Predicts Film Business ‘Contracts’ Post-COVID: Moviegoing ‘Just Not Worth It’ for Some
“I don’t think in a post-COVID world, it returns to what it was before,” the former Disney CEO says in a CNN+ interview
