Home Entertainment Trends 2021: Premium VOD Is Here to Stay
After a year in which COVID-19 upended Hollywood, 2021 looms with big question marks for home entertainment executives.
The pandemic accelerated the growth of streaming and made premium video-on-demand (PVOD) an economic and logistical necessity due to the closure of movie theaters. And despite the dearth of fresh theatrical product, the transactional end of the home entertainment business flourished.
In 2020, films that would have been major theatrical releases — including Disney’s liv