Such is the scene of destruction to box office takings, we now wince whenever the word cinema appears in the Faultline inbox. To our pleasant surprise, there was no such grimacing upon receipt of a press release from security specialist Verimatrix and a niche New York-based digital studio called Little Cinema this week. With the cinema industry forced into embracing alternative revenue streams for much of 2020, such as going direct to consumer or striking deals with established SVoD platforms, opportunities have emerged for OTT video technology vendors to capitalize on the closure of brick and mortar cinemas. Crucially, these are not temporary measures. There is no near-term “post-Covid” respite for the cinema. But while Little Cinema has chosen to…