While he’s made streaming television with the WWII pilot show “Masters of the Air,” and produced the Tom Hanks-led WWII high-seas battle flick “The Greyhound” for Apple, Steven Spielberg is promising that you’ll never see one of his directorial efforts on the streaming giant, Netflix. Certainly, echoing other filmmakers like Christopher Nolan that are dedicating their work for a theatrical audience, not a streaming one.
Speaking with ITV, the director shared some choice words to the idea of tackling a streaming-exclusive feature film, which as you might imagine isn’t something he’s terribly interest in doing anytime in the future. Adding to Spielberg’s established anti-streaming sentiment.
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“So, the idea of sending little cassettes, little DVDs, you know, to individuals to watch a movie, if I did that, I would be happy to work for Netflix and make a movie for Netflix, knowing that it’s only going to be seen by millions of people on their home screens,” the veteran filmmaker and Oscar-winner said. “But I’m a movie maker, and I believe in big motion picture, 70-millimeter theatrical experiences.”
Interestingly enough, back during Cinema-Con in April, co-CEO Ted Sarandos was reportedly meeting with theatrical exhibitors in the hopes of convincing them to play more of Netflix’s films in theaters. However, we’ll see how real that ultimately becomes after “KPop Demon Hunters” made an impression at the box office, despite being released on Netflix months before that release.
Steven Spielberg’s UFO action-adventure flick “Disclosure Day” was unleashed in theaters last weekend and was able to slightly outperform industry tracking with $44.5 million domestic box office opening, marking it as the biggest take for an original Spielberg release, and bested his cyberpunk adaptation “Ready Player One.” We shouldn’t be terribly shocked that Spielberg has this stance on not having any drive to work with Netflix. Could that change over time? Don’t bet on it.
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