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do you have a message for people? because in the uk, for example, we've recently seen the empire cinema chain collapse, leaving sunderland and wigan with no cinemas. cineworld has fallen into administration. audiences aren't going to the cinema. well, i mean, ithink audiences are coming back to cinema in good numbers, post—covid. i mean you have to bear in mind that in a world in which, you know, production was very much slowed down, but also the doors of cinemas were literally closed. in some places for an entire year and other places they open and shut. hollywood stopped releasing its movies. you know, the recovery from that is complicated, but i think it's actually going well. and i think we're seeing a lot more films being released now, which is certainly a good thing. should the theatrical window be longer? i think the average at the moment in 2023 is 30 days. yeah, it should absolutely be longer. the idea that the theatrical window needed to be made shorter is a fallacy. it was a fallacy. it was a short term thinking.
from the process, the safety protocols of leading up to the bomb, the switches that are thrown, the keys that are turned, those kind of things, the nervous glances that are exchanged. now, having all of that build—up, having all of that detail was essential because what we're trying to portray is this moment of absolute beauty and absolute terror, you know, and where computer imagery could feel visual effects in movies, can feel a little bit anodyne, a little bit safe. we wanted it to be extremely frightening and extremely threatening whilst it's still being, still being beautiful. and this is the moment that really changed the world. so it was very important to to drill down into it as far as possible. and i wanted to ask you about cinema. you're clearly a lover of cinema. you're steeped in it as an art form. do you have a message for people? because in the uk, for example, we've recently seen the empire cinema chain collapse, leaving sunderland and wigan with no cinemas. cineworld has fallen into administration. audiences aren't
the empire cinema chain collapse, leaving sunderland and wigan with no cinemas. cineworld has fallen into administration. audiences aren't going to the cinema. well, i mean, ithink audiences are coming back to cinema in good numbers, post—covid. i mean you have to bear in mind that in a world in which, you know, production was very much slowed down, but also the doors of cinemas were literally closed. in some places for an entire year and other places they open and shut. hollywood stopped releasing its movies. you know, the recovery from that is complicated, but i think it's actually going well. and i think we're seeing a lot more films being released now, which is certainly a good thing. should the theatrical window be longer? i think the average at the moment in 2023 is 30 days. yeah, it should absolutely be longer. the idea that the theatrical window needed to be made shorter is a fallacy. it was a fallacy. it was a short term thinking. it is short term thinking to appeal