Zack Sharf Digital News Director “Road House” director Doug Liman is still frustrated over the streaming release of his Jake Gyllenhaal-led action movie, telling IndieWire while promoting his new Apple movie “The Instigators” that his anger stems from not being properly compensated for a streaming release. “Road House” was initially conceived as a theatrical release for MGM.
Plans changed when MGM was purchased by Amazon. “First of all, I have no issue with streaming,” Liman said. “We need streaming movies cause, we need writers to go to work and directors to go to work and actors to go to work and not every movie should be in a movie theater.
So I’m a big advocate of TV series, of streaming movies, of theatrical movies, we should have it all. “My issue on ‘Road House’ is that we made the movie for MGM to be in theaters, everyone was paid as if it was going to be in theaters.
Then Amazon switched it on us and nobody got compensated,” he added. “Forget about the effect on the industry — 50 million people saw ‘Road House’ — I didn’t get a cent, Jake Gyllenhaal didn’t get a cent, [producer] Joel Silver didn’t get a cent.
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