In Netflix‘s pursuit of Warner Bros, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos came to promise that he’d honor a 45-day exclusive window to PVOD for the studio’s titles. This was after enormous pressure from the industry and media who scrutinized the executive and the streamer given their history for crunching the window for their titles between their theatrical play and ultimate debut on Netflix.
So what now, Netflix, when it comes to theatrical? Is it still in the cards after all of Ted’s talk? The studio has two big titles on their slate which would make perfect wide theatrical releases, and theaters coast-to-coast would want ’em: David Fincher’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood sequel, The Adventures of Cliff Booth, dropping in August and Greta Gerwig’s Narnia, which is already getting a two week Imax (limited) release on Thanksgiving, Nov. 26, in 1,000 auditoriums in 90 countries.
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