Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg has branded streaming services a "challenge" to cinema, but he isn't worried that will be replace the moviegoing experience.

He said: "{They are] a challenge to cinema, the same way television in the early 1950s pulled people away from movie theaters … Hollywood's used to that. We are accustomed to being highly competitive with television."

However, the director - who made his name on cinematic classics like 'Jurassic Park', 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and many more - has since clarified that he doesn't want to lose the shared experience of cinema.

He said: “I want people to find their entertainment in any form or fashion that suits them. Big screen, small screen — what really matters to me is a great story and everyone should have access to great stories. However, I feel people need to have the opportunity to leave the safe and familiar of their lives and go to a place where they can sit in the company of others and have a shared experience — cry together, laugh together, be afraid together — so that when it’s over they might feel a little less like strangers. I want to see the survival of movie theaters. I want the theatrical experience to remain relevant in our culture.”