Netflix Stands Firm Against Theatrical Exclusives

With Warner Bros. Discovery no longer being acquired, Netflix seems to have cooled on plans for more theatrical release features.

Yes, Greta Gerwig’s upcoming “Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew” is still getting an exclusive 54-day theatrical window before hitting streaming, but Netflix’s Film Division chief Dan Lin says that is the exception, not the norm.

Speaking with The New York Times (via WOR) for a new piece headlined “Netflix Is Done Coddling Hollywood,” Lin says filmmakers who want to push Netflix to give their film a theatrical release like “Narnia” – well, there’s the door:

“There is a group of filmmakers who still want theatrical. Those are filmmakers that we’ve accepted we just won’t work with.”

Netflix has been relatively strict with its no-theatrical policy which is why films like Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” went to a studio, a film like “F1” ended up at Apple, and Zach Cregger’s “The Flood” stalled at the streamer.

Films will still continue getting the minimum two-week Oscar-qualifying runs in theaters, including the Denzel Washington and Robert Pattinson-led “Here Comes the Flood” and David Fincher’s “The Adventures of Cliff Booth”.

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