Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel Says WME in Talks With Netflix, Amazon About Theatrical Release of Movies
thewrap.comGoldman Sachs conference on Monday, Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel said that his company is in talks with Amazon Studios and Netflix about their plans for releasing films in theaters. “We are having conversations with Amazon about, is it going to be 15 days, 25 days, day-and-date?
There is no one way or another,” he said. “Certain movies even on Netflix now, they are going to do four weeks in theaters … There is no set model right now, because they are still figuring it out.”The same could probably be said for almost all of Hollywood’s major studios.
While Sony has kept a stable partnership with Netflix for streaming release of their films after their theatrical run, the other legacy studios — Disney, Paramount, Universal and Warner Bros. — have tried different experiments with theatrical windowing and choosing which films to skip theaters entirely.
The goal — try to balance their theatrical film plans with the need to boost revenue for their streaming services. But streamers like Amazon and Netflix have been even more opaque with their plans for theatrical release, which is notable particularly for Netflix given its lavish spending on some major blockbuster films.
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