These days, amidst the glamour and hopes of awards season and Christmas blockbusters, Hollywood is confronting a well-known list of troubles.

The sale of Warner Bros. Discovery to Netflix tops any list, followed by fears about AI.

But what’s truly disturbing? A very sad trend: Critically hailed movies that die a quick death at the box-office, a reflection of the grave, growing issue of moviegoers reluctant to see a movie in a movie theater.

Worse, it reflects a lack of interest in movies. Can we blame social media? Streaming? Limited series?

Biopics have done tremendous business, often winning Oscar attention. Last year Timothée Chalamet in the Bob Dylan hit “A Complete Unknown” scored him his second Oscar nomination.

This year there was the downbeat biopic about The Boss struggling t

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