Only a few months had passed since the arrival of the coronavirus and the home quarantine order when its effects and the change it created in people's lifestyles became apparent.
People around the world lost many of their ordinary, daily recreations and stayed home in order to stay alive. The entertainment industry and cinema also adapted themselves to these conditions. For example, the form of film screenings took place on online streaming services. Iranian cinema and film screenings in Iran were also not spared from this pandemic. The first film to be released online in Iranian cinema was Ebrahim Hatamikia's Khorooj.
People's main recreation during quarantine was watching films and series. For this reason, the market for home video, VODs, and streaming flourished in the world and in Iran. In Azar (November–December) 1398 (2019/20), the volume of internet consumed for watching films on the Filimo service was more than 1/8 million gigabytes per month. This figure in Esfand (February–March) of the same year, that is, the early months of the spread of the coronavirus, reached more than 48 million gigabytes per month.
The existence of home video networks, VODs, and streaming was able, to some extent, to offset and ease the downward trend in box office revenue during the coronavirus period.
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Machine-translated from Persian by Namafar; the Persian original is authoritative. Read the original in Persian