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Apparently Rian Johnson followed Jessica Chastain recently.... she’d be great for this kind of film!
It's pretty similar to what any anthology series does where it has one main character and then a rotating ensemble. Murder On The Orient Express/Death On The Nile does the same thing with Hercule Poirot whereas these movies have Benoit Blanc. The Poirot movies aren't as good, but they're very similar in nature.Love making the title mirror the themes and motif of the movies.
Unfortunately, Netflix is unwilling to do anything beyond a limited release in heaters, which is absolutely idiotic:
They paid $450M for Knives Out 2 and 3. You’d think that they’d want to recoup their investment. Theatrical hits are just as popular on streaming (if not more) than films that are Netflix Originals.How so? Netflix might be in more trouble than theaters at this point, why share their biggest asset since ST4?
I think the idea is to bump subscriber counts. If you let it go to theaters, you don’t get the residual subscriber fees from people who sign up just to watch it and then forget their subscription exists until $100 later.They paid $450M for Knives Out 2 and 3. You’d think that they’d want to recoup their investment. Theatrical hits pare just as popular on streaming (if not more) than films that are Netflix Originals.
The first film made $165M domestic and over $300M worldwide, so they can make a lot more than $20M if they even just put it in theaters for like, 10-17 days (2-3 weeks).I just think plenty of people sub to Netflix already it’s going to be very difficult for them to grow, but, having movies like this exclusively I do think is where they’re kinda at right now. Make like $15-20 mil in theatres then hope subs up a bit so you make money on all fronts
Plenty of people, definitely, but they’re still losing subscribers at a pretty big clip, which is not only hurting revenue but also share price. The revenue you get from one hit in theaters pales compared to the revenue you make from the lifetime of a customer that would theoretically subscribe for more than just one month. I think it’s the right call.I just think plenty of people sub to Netflix already it’s going to be very difficult for them to grow, but, having movies like this exclusively I do think is where they’re kinda at right now. Make like $15-20 mil in theatres then hope subs up a bit so you make money on all fronts
Unfortunately, Netflix is unwilling to do anything beyond a limited release in heaters, which is absolutely idiotic:
It always means the Paris Theater that they own in New York and an LA release. They may release it in some other markets, but theaters are frustrated with Netflix. They want to play the movie, but they know Netflix isn't going to market it as a theatrical release so filling theaters with the movie almost is pointless if no one knows that they can see it in theaters.What does limited mean in this context? I remember the Irishman played at practically every theater in my area for a few weeks, but that was in the Bay Area. Even the Gray Man came to Reno, but maybe Cinemark tends to do these speciality showings more often than, say, an AMC.