Hollywood faces big ‘crisis’, director sounds alarm

Kleber Mendonça Filibo, a Brazilian director, is sounding the alarm about the rise of American cultural streaming services.

“We are going through a crisis compared to going to the cinema, but I think that the flow culture as well as the tragedy has been changed,” he said at the Marrakech film festival.

He continues, “it was always clear to see a movie, you would see it in a cinema (…). Well, it’s not clear anymore.”

“I think this takes a lot of people away from the cinema-going experience,” he writes.

The film added, “The industry, especially Hollywood, really has to figure it out if they want to stay alive.”

The line Kleber refers to is his advice that Hollywood is “only the indication of a film about the flow after three or four months.”

The film also refers to his last film, the secret agent, “now that the ‘secret agent’ is in Brazilian cinemas, then we will try only in the cinemas, and then they will be streaming at some point.”

“If you send that message, if you make it clear, people will come, and that’s what’s happening in Brazil now,” he concluded.