Steven Spielberg has weighed in with his thoughts on the shift away from theatrical releases in favor of streaming. Speaking to The New York Times, Spielberg said the pandemic created an opportunity for media executives to throw filmmakers under the bus and then pay them off to help promote their upstart streaming services.

“The pandemic created an opportunity for streaming platforms to raise their subscriptions to record-breaking levels and also throw some of my best filmmaker friends under the bus as their movies were unceremoniously not given theatrical releases,” he said. “They were paid off and the films were suddenly relegated to, in this case, HBO Max. The case I’m talking about. And then everything started to change.”

Spielberg’s comment about filmmakers being paid off is presumably a reference to how Warner Bros. cut deals with filmmakers and stars after people like Christopher Nolan (who made Tenet for Warner Bros.) criticized the decision to move films to HBO Max.

Continue Reading at GameSpot Steven Spielberg has weighed in with his thoughts on the shift away from theatrical releases in favor of streaming. Speaking to The New York Times, Spielberg said the pandemic created an opportunity for media executives to throw filmmakers under the bus and then pay them off to help promote their upstart streaming services.”The pandemic created an opportunity for streaming platforms to raise their subscriptions to record-breaking levels and also throw some of my best filmmaker friends under the bus as their movies were unceremoniously not given theatrical releases,” he said. “They were paid off and the films were suddenly relegated to, in this case, HBO Max. The case I’m talking about. And then everything started to change.” Spielberg’s comment about filmmakers being paid off is presumably a reference to how Warner Bros. cut deals with filmmakers and stars after people like Christopher Nolan (who made Tenet for Warner Bros.) criticized the decision to move films to HBO Max.Continue Reading at GameSpot  GameSpot – All Content