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> "We’ll put the movie out for a week or 10 days. We’ll qualify for Oscar consideration.” See, I think that’s fundamentally rotten to the core. A movie should be made as a movie for theatrical, and the Academy Awards mean nothing to me if they don’t mean theatrical. I think they’ve been co-opted, and I think it’s horrific.

From the same guy who allowed Avatar to be released 12 years later so it could retake the top spot from Avengers Endgame. (to be fair, that movie had a small rerelease itself to gain that top spot)



This all aligns perfectly; he thinks movies should be seen in the theater, and he got his movie back into theaters so people could see it there.

I’ve seen a bunch of old movies in theaters and it’s great. I wish more movies had 2nd or 3rd runs in theaters.


How is that related to thinking the Oscars should be reserved for theatrical movie releases and not allow token releases where almost no one can actually see it theatrically just to qualify?




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