If you are not listening to or reading the Puck Newsletter from Matt Belloni, you are missing out on a ton of very interesting Hollywood news. This week, Belloni spoke with Netflix CCO Bela Bajaria, who talked about the streaming behemoth's future and the future of the industry as a whole. In this interview, Bajaria revealed that she thinks a lot of the movies that do well theatrically would do just as well on Netflix. That includes Oppenheimer. Yes, the Christopher Nolan epic that made almost a billion dollars theatrically and swept many of the Academy Awards. Bajaria said, "Yes. We would have done an amazing qualifying run. So many people obviously would have watched it. It was a great movie. And I think it would have had that." After Belloni disagreed, she continued, "We’re going to totally disagree about this. And here’s the thing: There’s a lot of people who love going to the movies. I love going to the movies. It’s just, we want to make great movies on Netflix. This idea of, Everything theatrical is bigger and lasting, you have to think about all those other movies except for the four or five we just talked about." This is an interesting quote because it's hard to think of any Netflix movie having the kind of cultural impact as Oppenheimer, Wicked, or Barbie. Part of going to the movies is a shared experience you talk about with other people. When things just appear online, they don't seem to...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Friday, 14 February