Pixarin Soul sai ensi-iltansa digitaalisena, samoin kuin Warner Brosin Wonder Woman 1984. Onko perinteisten elokuvateattereiden taru siis lopussa? Palkittu näyttelijä Tom Hanks on sitä mieltä, että elokuvateatterit selviävät koettelemuksesta kyllä. Näin kertoi Collider:
"Will movie theaters still exist? Absolutely, they will. In some ways, I think the exhibitors — once they're up and open — are going to have the freedom of choice of what movies they're going to play.
You want to see them [franchise films] writ large, because watching them at home on your couch actually might diminish them somehow in their visual punch. But the sea change that has been brought by COVID-19 has been a slow train coming. I think there will be an awful lot of movies that will only be streamed, and I think it will be fine to see them that way because they will actually be built and made and constructed for somebody's pretty good widescreen TV at their home."