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Hollywood’s Online Movie Experiment Isn’t Paying Off

Studios aren’t giving customers a compelling enough reason to spend money on new movies at home

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Richard Lorber shifted his movie business to the internet as soon as movie theaters closed across the United States. Lorber runs Kino Lorber, one of the leading distributors of independent and foreign films.

Sales surged at first, prompting most of his competitors and partners to join the movement.