Classified Tv Movies
The Night Stalker, (John Llewellyn Moxey, 1972) Streaming may be the new “theatrical experience,” but digital platforms’ fight against big movie production companies, the theater chains, and ardent advocates like Steven Spielberg, is a tale as old as television. In the late 1960s, the studios saw CBS, NBC, and ABC as their direct competitors and gouged them for screening fees for films. ABC saw an opening to streamline operations and produce their own movies at a fraction of the cost, which birthed their famous Movie of the Week format in 1969....