Singapore, April 7 -- Coming soon to that iPad in your hand are the Vin Diesel cyborg action pic Bloodshot, the Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus marital comedy Downhill, and Pixar Animation's fun-filled Onward.
Every other movie, in short, only recently in a cinema in your neighbourhood.
How the world has since been upended by Covid-19. In Singapore too, multiplex chains and art houses alike have shuttered to curb the contagion, and a Hollywood in need of an alternate revenue source is increasingly rerouting its 2020 films online.
Universal Pictures has freed up its current horror hit The Invisible Man as well as the Jane Austen adaptation Emma for home viewing in the United States. That's unprecedented, almost a transgression. Ma...