‘These Movies Didn’t Make History’: Tarantino Against Netflix and Streaming Platforms

‘These Movies Didn’t Make History’: Tarantino Against Netflix and Streaming Platforms

We’ve known it for a while now, Tarantino is going to hang up his camera and make his last movie this year. Titled The Movie Critic, it follows a movie critic in the 70s (77 to be exact). Filming is scheduled for this fall, with an estimated release in 2025.

The director was at the Cannes Film Festival to present the surprise film and discuss the filmExchange with guests. In particular, he announced his desire to have his next feature film produced by Sony (as in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood), one of the rare studios that is not attached to a streaming platform and that continues to sell its products in physical format:

“They’re committed to the movie experience. They measure success by how many people sit in a chair. They measure success by whether their movies are worth their time. Not just by spending a lot of money and then paying it to a streaming platform where no one knows, that they are there.”

“I’m not targeting anyone, but it looks like Netflix paid up Ryan Reynolds 50 million for the film, then the second, then the third. I don’t know any of these movies. I have never seen them. I haven’t spoken to Ryan Reynolds’ agent, but he should understand that’s his price. Good for him. But these films did not make history. It’s as if they never existed.”

Netflix has never hidden the sizeable budgets of its blockbusters and regularly calls on bankable actors like Ryan Reynolds or Dwayne Johnson. The former has indeed made several films with the SVOD giant, including 6 Underground, Red Notice and The Adam Project, three feature films that are part of it. Most viewed of the originals Since its launch on the streaming platform… but which are now missing from the catalog. So, points for Tarantino.

Source: Allocine

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