Older generations can’t be bothered to go, and younger people want to stream their films.

Most weeks, this column labors to avoid sentimentality. But ’tis the holiday season, and our subject is the future of movie theaters. Indulge me. PREMIUM

Jerry Seinfeld, who presumably knows a thing or two about show business, has said the film industry as currently constituted is kaput, even if Tinseltown has been slow to understand what’s happened in recent decades. “They don’t have any idea that the movie business is over,” he told GQ magazine last year. “Film doesn’t occupy the pinnacle in the social, cultural hierarchy that it did for most of our lives. When a movie came out, if it was good, we all went to see it. We all discussed it. We quoted lines and scenes we liked. Now we’re walking t

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