Steven Spielberg, a renowned filmmaker, has set a surprising condition for ever directing a Netflix movie. He would only make a Netflix movie if the platform mailed DVDs to subscribers’ homes and not stream to millions of screens simultaneously. The director explained why the communal cinema experience is irreplaceable, tracing it back to the very origins of film when audiences gathered in dance halls and pubs around crude projectors, sending flickering images onto hanging sheets.
Steven Spielberg has set a surprising condition for ever directing a Netflix movie. The legendary filmmaker says he would need the platform to revive a piece of its own history first.
He would only make a Netflix movie if the platform mailed DVDs to subscribers’ homes and not stream to millions of screens simultaneously. The director explained why the communal cinema experience is irreplaceable, tracing it back to the very origins of film when audiences gathered in dance halls and pubs around crude projectors, sending flickering images onto hanging sheets.
He pointed to the making of Jaws as a defining example, recalling watching preview audiences erupt like popcorn flying, people screaming when a pivotal scare moment hit. That commitment extends to how he handles press screenings, too. During the same interview, the outlet thanked him for holding the press screening for Disclosure Day in a cinema, noting that films are often sent out as digital screeners with the journalist’s email burned into the frame.
Spielberg was unequivocal, 'No, no, no. I would never let that happen.
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