As I see it, Hollywood currently has four stables of movie talent: • Movie-movie stars (Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep) • HBO-movie stars (Colin Farrell, Steve Carell, Anthony Mackie, and anyone whose TV shows have movie vibes and movies have TV vibes) • Streaming-movie stars (Millie Bobby Brown, post-Avengers: Endgame Chris Pratt) • Plane-movie stars

As I headed to Los Angeles for Summer Game Fest on a cramped United Airlines flight, I went looking for a movie to stream. I scrolled through new-release options that didn’t fit the mood — a reviled sequel I skipped? A musical that will inevitably suffer on bad headphones? A much-lauded 2024 Iranian film? — and I couldn’t help but think that plane-movie stars are the entertainment industry’s most important but undervalue

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