How are modern movies sent to cinemas across the world ?

Question

I suppose that back in the day films were shipped in physical form, but how does that work nowadays?

Google Drive link to mp4 file seems unlikely

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Answer 1

I’ve actually done some work for AMC Theaters at their office in Kansas. We installed a satellite dish there and then installed satellite dishes at a lot of their locations in the Midwest. It was a large project they had years ago in an attempt to get movies downloaded to a local server weeks before the official release instead of relying on the mail to deliver hard drives. It was pretty neat to see the inner workings of it all