Badass rock star Helen Mirren says "fuck Netflix"

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If the nation’s theater owners seem more excited than usual this week, it’s not just because they’re set to make a nice big pile of cash from Avengers: Endgame. It’s also because we’re in the middle of CinemaCon, an annual event where big movie stars and big movie studios show off their upcoming blockbusters to the people who run movie theaters while showering them with compliments about how supremely important movie theaters are even though you can literally download any movie to your phone at any time. One of the big stars at CinemaCon this year is Helen Mirren, who put on a masterclass in pandering to the audience when she took the stage and declared: “I love Netflix, but fuck Netflix.”