Black Widow, Matrix Resurrections og Mulan er bare nogle eksempler på film der primært grundet pandemien droppede biograferne til fordel for en premiere på en streamingtjeneste. Mange instruktører var utilfredse over de her ryk, og blandt dem er Mad Max-instruktør George Miller.
I et interview med Variety siger Miller, at han insisterede på at hans nyeste film, Three Thousand Years of Longing, kun landede i biograferne, fordi han finder det "smertefuldt" når film lander på streamingtjenester:
"It would be very painful to know that your movie will be first seen on streaming. There's a commitment that they can't change. MGM will release it at the end of August in 2,000 cinemas. There's been no deal that MGM has made to stream the movie. At this moment, it will be a theatrical release. Seeing it in that cinema (the Palais), with that sound, that group of people, and knowing every little bit of work that we put into it, will be available to the audiences."
Han slutter sig til Spielberg, Tarantino og Nolan, der alle er lodret imod streaming på premieredagen.