Key Highlights
- Deadline Awards Editor Antonia Blyth caught up with the Avatar: Fire and Ash filmmaker, who shared his feelings on the pending merger, now that Warner has accepted Netflix’s bid (yes, nothing is done yet, as Paramount has launched a hostile takeover over the 102-year-old studio).
- “Look, it’s no secret that Netflix, they’ve kind of, in a funny way, they’ve had to make an accommodation with a few filmmakers like Guillermo del Toro and so on to keep a foot in theatrical, but I think it’s no secret that they want to replace theatrical,” Cameron told Deadline today.
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- News International Insider: Red Sea Wraps; Par Gets Hostile; New Boss At Channel 4 20th Century Studios “OK, I mean, maybe that happens, I don’t know, maybe I’m a dinosaur,” he continued, “I happen to think that there’s something sacred about the movie-going experience and just the ease and broad access of streaming is not the complete answer.
- Maybe the universe adjusts around those two principles, but you can’t just steamroll theatrical out of existence and I’m going to stay opposed to that.” Watch on Deadline On Monday, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos walked back his comments of recent months, and exclaimed that he’s pro-theatrical, particularly for those greenlit Warner Bros titles that are being developed and made for multiplexes.
