Netflix: So the movie is to be switched off – THE WORLD

Riva Marker, production head of film company Red Crown believed their eyes not to be trusted. Because actually offered someone $ twelve million for her film “Beasts of No Nation”, which had cost just six million.

Otherwise, the rights sale is a tedious Stückelarbeit, hundreds of thousands of this country, a few tens of thousands for that, a little for the cinema >, a bit for television, a penny for downloading. But here was a everything. The generous bidder was Netflix.

The streaming service had “Beasts” carefully chosen. It is a smaller one for Hollywood film relations. It is about a sensational, but ultimately uncontroversial topic, African child soldiers. He Idris Elba, the one from Oscar with this role – can send race. And it is one of the nature films, which despite its qualities have made it more difficult in the movies, because the screens are blocked from blockbusters.

The grace period for the movie to be abolished

“Beasts of No Nation” was the ideal candidate to shoot the Bastion “cinema” sturmreif. Because despite television, video, DVD and streaming is still considered that films – can be seen first in the cinema – the most important in any case; the other evaluations begin three months later (in the US) or four (in Germany). “Beasts” is now used as the battering ram: It is seen from Friday to online from Netflix – and at the same time he starts in the American cinema.

Photo: AP Idris Elba and Abraham Attah

That is: In fact, he does not start. All major cinema chains refuse to accept films in the program, the haunt already on the net. This is a matter of self-respect, that one can not simply be reduced to one of many screening locations, it is a matter of economic reason, a question of survival.

In this respect runs “Beasts” in only a few dozen smaller cinemas. And even there only because the film would not otherwise qualify for the Oscars and Netflix precisely this publicity will. Revenue from the theatrical release playing no role in the Netflix business model.

Netflix is ​​keen on the next Brad Pitt movie

The next” Beasts “cower already on hold:” The Ridiculous Six “(the new Adam Sandler), a continuation of” Tiger & amp; Dragon “and the mercenary drama” Jadotville “. It could be that the present three no great loss for the cinema, but the sticking point comes next year with “The War Machine” – after all, a satire on the US military in Afghanistan, starring Brad Pitt – that Netflix would also like to stream simultaneously .

Meanwhile, the company has announced to want to move their headquarters from Silicon Valley to Hollywood in the old Bronson Studios on Sunset Boulevard. There was in 1927 “The Jazz Singer” is rotated, the first full talkie; three years thereafter, there was no longer silent film. A clearer signal revolutionary intentions can not send one.

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