Outstanding double-Start: The award-winning child soldiers film “Beasts of No Nation” by Cary Fukunaga (“True Detective”, “Sin Nombre”) has been launched on Friday at the same time when streaming service Netflix and in some cinemas in the UK and the US. This allows now the world’s approximately 70 million subscribers of Netflix – also in Germany – get the movie
That’s what has caused stir in the US.. Regal Entertainment, Cinemark, Carmike and AMC – – According to a report of “Spiegel Online” four large cinema chains have and the Federation of cinema owners NATO announced “Beasts of No Nation” to boycott. Still found in the US and UK cinemas showing him. In Germany, this is not the case.
Netflix (“House of Cards”) purchased in the spring of twelve million US dollars the rights to the approximately six million dollar indie drama about a child soldier in Africa. Thus, the company introduced its first feature film on the market.
“Beasts of No Nation” has been running at film festivals and is listed as a possible Oscar nominee. In September at the International Film Festival in Venice the teenager Abraham Attah from Ghana who plays a traumatized child soldiers, has been awarded as the best young performer.
The 38-year-old US director Fukunaga, the acclaimed for his television series “True Detective “won an Emmy, can err a little boy by a civil war zone somewhere in Africa. First he is separated from his mother, then bring soldiers to his father and brother. When the rebels finally pick up on him, they make him out to be a soldier. The Briton Idris Elba plays the brutal rebel leader.
Netflix have given him a lot of artistic freedom, Fukunaga said the industry portal “Variety”. It was very important to him that the film starts in the cinema. Netflix but have the advantage that the service is not dependent on the box office receipts. The company is financed by its paying users.
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