Quentin Tarantino went on the Howard Stern Sirius radio show and spoke about how Disney is strong-arming Arclight Cinemas to push the director’s 70MM presentation of his eighth film The Hateful Eight aside in favor of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in LA’s famed Cinerama Dome. The director first learned about this on Monday. The western was originally due to play there claims Tarantino starting on Dec. 25th, but now Force Awakens is getting an extended play through the holidays.
“It was real bad news and it fucking pissed me off,” Tarantino told Stern. “They are going out of their way to fuck me.”
All per Tarantino: when ArcLight Cinemas told Disney they were honoring their contract for Hateful Eight, Disney threatened to pull Force Awakens from all ArcLight locations.
However, many sources tell Deadline that Disney secured the Dome months ago to play the Force Awakens through the holidays. This was further reflected in the fact that the Dome was an option to prospective Force Awakens ticket buyers when they went on sale on Oct. 19. Apparently, Tarantino only recently learned about the booking situation and decided to voice his protest on Stern. Tarantino owns and programs the New Beverly Cinema, a renowned revival house in Los Angeles.
For years there was a clearance boundary whereby if a film was playing at the Chinese Theater on Hollywood Blvd, then it couldn’t be playing at the Cinerama Dome. But that’s not the situation here with Star Wars: The Force Awakens: It’s playing at the TCL Chinese Theater, Disney’s El Capitan and The Cinerama Dome.
Living here in L.A., The Cinerama Dome is a prized venue for Tarantino. In fact the Cinerama logo appears in the opening credits of The Hateful Eight. The premiere for the film was held on Monday, Dec. 7 at the Cinerama Dome and the director told Deadline’s Pete Hammond, “I made The Hateful Eight for the Dome … This is the first time seeing it at the Dome for me too, and it was like I hadn’t even seen it before, not like this.”
“It’s vindictive, it’s mean, and it’s extortion,” an uninformed Tarantino added. The Oscar-winning fimmaker further added that his beef isn’t with Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams, but with the top suits at Disney. In fact, Abrams worked with Tarantino when the director starred as McKenas Cole on Abrams’ ABC show Alias. “I made a lot of money for the Disney corporation,” Tarantino told Stern referring to the days when Disney owned Miramax and released such titles as Pulp Fiction ($213.9M worldwide) and the Kill Bill two pic saga (combined $333M worldwide) as well as Jackie Brown ($40M domestic).
It’s no secret that there is a particularly hard fight for screens this holiday season with a glut of films and in fact, Hateful Eight wisely changed up its distribution pattern to accommodate that glut. “It’s so damn crowded right now that everyone is pushing everything,” said one exhib about the fight for screens. “I had (one studio) tell me I have to hold (their movie) on one line while on the other I had (another studio) screaming at me about (their film). “The real problem is that it’s too packed and it’s hard to juggle all these films and we are telling them (the studios) that’s there are too many movies to juggle right now.”
During the broadcast, Stern told Tarantino that Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger was an avid listener. The radio host addressed an absent Iger during the show, calling out: “Listen Bob … I don’t give a shit about this theater. Quentin’s a weirdo — sorry Quentin … They’ve got the stupid 70mm – they got all that shit that he cares about. He just wants to show his goddamn movie there. You’re sitting on top of the world. You’ve got Star Wars. What, do you need this?”
When reached by Deadline, Weinstein Co. and Disney provided no comment.
In a statement yesterday, Arclight Cinemas announced how they were preparing for Star Wars: The Force Awakens; that the Dome was upgraded with dual-head Christie 6P laser projectors and Dolby 3D, which can project more than double the light of an average 3D projection system and enable moviegoers to see the nuances in Star Wars: Episode VII.
Below is the link to the Soundcloud interview:
If Tarantino fucks up my Star Wars tickets for tomorrow night I am going to br so pissed.
Shut up and get out of the way of history in the making.
That is low of Disney…. Star Wars is going to be the highest opening of all time and they can’t let the guy who made a movie for a specific theatre show his movie in that theatre? It’s already gonna play there through Christmas… Christ Sake Disney… Don’t be evil…
Honestly do you really believe Tarantino, even for a second, think about it, if they really wanted his movie why would they go to the extra expense to up grade to as the article says “dual-head Christie 6P laser projectors and Dolby 3D, which can project more than double the light of an average 3D projection system” I don’t know the cost of all that but I’ll bet it isn’t cheap. Tarantino’s mouth runs way to much.
You obviously don’t have much respect for ethics or written contracts.
No I don’t, do you really think Arclight Cinemas / The Cinerama Dome is going to make more with Star Wars or Tarantino’s movie? They did it because of the MONEY to be made simple.
Tarantino needs to sit down shut up and go to the back of the line and WAIT!!!
You obviously don’t have much respect for ethics or written contracts.
Hold up here. Showtimes for Star Wars at Cinerama have been available since October 19th; why didn’t Tarantino open Fandango and take a look, like, say, back around Halloween? Doesn’t sound like Tarantino had a contract at all. All for a movie the guy swore he was never going to make in the first place after original script leaked years ago.
Tarantino’s just bitter his flick is the B-reel at best this season, something I am guessing he is not used to. I’m not a SW fanboy (don’t even have tickets), but egos aside one should know better than to stand in front of that cultural juggernaut. Vince Vega or Django vs. the Death Star is not a fair fight.
You don’t have any idea what you’re talking about. Do you even know what Panavision is? Do you have a single ounce of respect for this history of the art form, what the directors and cinematographers do, the equipment, the exhibition of films?
God help us all.
No, because in todays world they aren’t studios any more, this isn’t 1946 and they aren’t making It’s a Wonderfull Life, it’s 2015 and they are MEDIA companies, movies are just a means to sell merchandise, theme park rides, apps for phones, and video games. it’s not about how good a film is it’s about getting people’s butts in seats, and making MONEY, for both the company and it’s shareholders, so if Tarantino has to wait a few weeks too bad, he cries and complains more than any one in Hollywood. Last month he was shooting his mouth off against police brutality, this month its about Cinerama Dome.
And don’t give me that artsy fartsy Hollywood art crap about movies, people make movies to make money, to make more movies to make more money.
make a 70mm film and expect to be the first in line to show the film.
Hahahaha good one.
Do you honestly think they did those upgrades for one movie?
Those upgrades are still going to be there long after both of these films are out on Blu Ray.
There are multiple movies out right now that are in 3D, with lots more on the way.
The theater only said that to try and draw viewers from other theaters. I bet the money they make from Star Wars won’t even pay for the upgrades, considering how much that stuff costs and how little theaters make from ticket sales. Theaters are in the business of selling snacks and drinks. The vast majority of ticket revenue goes to the distributors, not theater operators.
Agree!
Agree with Andrew. Why would Tarintino lie about this. The theater’s logo is in the beginning of the movie! Somewhere along the line Tarintino was effed by either Disney or Arclight Cinema. Why all the hate for Tarintino? He got screwed not you or Star Wars!
Because he’s pissed off that his guys didn’t secure the venue he wanted, because maybe he didn’t ask them in time, and Disney had already booked the place and now he’s doing this to have his way. That’s pretty believable. The obvious message is “it’s only one effing theater in the whole world, you’re going to make gazillion dollars regardless, I made a lot of money for you, please grant me my wish”. And because his film is so violent, the place will be half-empty instead of packed for a family movie, so even the owners of the place are not so thrilled to miss 2 weeks of Star Wars just because QT loves the place.
@wanadream
because his film is so violent, the place will be half-empty instead of packed for a family movie
Star Wars episode VII is extremely violent. Many more people are killed in this Star Wars than in any before it.
Tarantino takes a lot of heat for the violence in his films, but the body count in his films are almost never as high as your typical ‘blockbuster’ action film. (With the exception of Kill Bill volume 1, which was a ‘blockbuster’ action movie. )
Lots of children are going to see lots of death and violence in Star Wars. The only difference is that blasters and lightsabers aren’t real, so people don’t think of it in the same way.
20 years from now after dozens of Disney Star Wars movies have been released, nobody will remember this one. History in the making is the eighth film of an auteur who will only be making ten films in total. Disney fucked that up for all of his fans in L.A. Star Wars will be playing in every goddamn cinema in the world. Go see it and enjoy it. It looks like I’ll have to wait and watch the fucking digital print of my most-anticipated movie. Disney will never get a penny from me again.
While I agree with you, good luck avoiding anything Disney. They own an obscene amount of media outlets and even other branch companies.
A movie isn’t going to be a big deal just because its director decided he’s going to stop at 10 (and for all anyone knows he’ll pull a Cher and come back out of retirement.)
Is it good, or isn’t it?
That’s all that matters in the long run.
“Disney fucked that up for all of his fans in L.A.”
Really? Because based on the list of theatres showing the 70mm print, there are still SEVEN other theatres that will be showing it.
Did you even read the article or listen to the interview?
Tarantino is a spoiled child and star wars makes people happy full stop
How lame of you. Tarantino is a unique talent in today’s Hollywood. He puts his blood sweat and tears into his films and we, his fans, are grateful for that because his films are always fucking awesome. He had a contract, someone renegged. He has every right to be upset about it.
Unique talent lol they use the n word so excessively a lot of people won’t go to his movies. Buy the way the reviews were terrible.
The reviews have not been terrible, averaging 4 out of 5 stars.
The lowest I have seen in a 2 out of 5, and the highest was 9.5 of 10.
The 2 was the only ‘bad’ review I have seen so far, and I have seen multiple positive reviews.
Of course we will have to wait until tomorrow to see for ourselves, or at least see what actual moviegoers think.
What and Tarantinos movies don’t? His movies are an INSPIRATION to me. They’re amazing and I adore them. Disney gets the Christmas season, and it’s freaking star wars they’ll make tons of money on this, they don’t need that theater. And regardless if you make a legal agreement with someone you gotta follow through on it. Disney is the childish one. “Oh we can’t have one stinking theater? Well then none of your theaters can have it so there!” It’s pathetic.
I really hope he does ruin your Star Wars tickets. That would be awesome because you’re selfish.
Calling out Iger? Tarantino certainly can’t call the cops. Anyways, who will watch the Hateful 8 over Star Wars? The theater won’t fill out.
*rolls eyes*… in one theatre…? the arclight… on christmas.. in LA… Tarantino? You obviously know nothing.
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Go do the smallest bit of research before spouting off. Quentin does just fine in LA. Django just did 160 million domestic. Basterds did 120 million. His movies are wildly entertaining AND artistic. Figure it out.
They have moments of greatness, but also moments of indulgence that take away from the good parts. Which is true of any auteur. Studio interference can be a bad thing more often than not but it also never hurts to have a second opinion. Art isn’t possible without ego, but that doesn’t mean ego can’t undermine it.
ill be watching both in the upcoming week or so but hateful eight is my top priority
i was waiting for the ugly, soulless corporate product at the heart of Disney’s Star Wars acquisition to rear its head, but I thought it would be more in the line of “A Muppet Star Wars Christmas Special.”
LMAO. I’ve been laughing for a while now so I wanted to just say thank you for this comment. Hilarious.
Just wait for the eventual Avengers/Star Wars mashup as disclosed on Parks and Rec. You all thought that was a joke?
Waaaaaa. Who cares, big baby.
I love that he rips off yet another hallmark from old Hollywood — the Cinerama logo — for one of his regurgitated crapfests.
Some say rip-off, some say homage.
I say they’re both the same fucking thing, and that I eagerly look forward to seeing both films this Christmas.
There’s an active trademark – he licensed it’s use :)
And he paid for the Across 110th Street theme’s use in Jackie Brown, along with all the other stuff he licenses. I know, I know. That’s not my point. My point is he doesn’t have an original bone in his body. Peckinpah made movies that looked like nobody else’s. Hawks, too. And Ford. And Hitchcock. And Friedkin, just to name a few.
But Tarantino…it’s all “hommage,” because he has nothing original inside him. There’s no “there” there.
Considering the plot and characters of The Force Awakens are already being criticized for slavishly mirroring A New Hope, do you really want to throw those stones?
Uh…who’s talking about that crap Star Wars?
Why does a film need to be ‘original’ to be good. He is an excellent technical film-maker. He enjoys the art and that joy comes alive in his films. He also writes some of the best dialogue in film that is and ever has been. He is a brilliant man, whether you like him or not.
It can be complete hack work and be enjoyable. But egomaniac Tarantino calls himself one of the most influential, original moviemakers ever…and that’s when bullshit needs to be called.
And if you think his repetitive, juvenile, puerile doggerel is “some of the best dialogue in film,” then you seriously need to see a whole lot of other movies.
Quentin and Peter Jackson are both victims of their own success in that they don’t have to listen to their editor – or anyone else – anymore; which is not a good thing. Django just goes on and on and on. Peter Jackson took a novella and made it into a ten hour video game one can’t actually play.
Of course the worst offender in this category is, ironically, George Lucas and his prequels.
You actually have the nerve to rank on Tarantino for originality, when the movie you are championing has a Roman numeral after it?
Nothing original??? And what has JJ contributed???
All stories are in essence, the same. No movie out there exists that hasn’t ripped off another story. They all have their cliches and archetypes.
How is it then, that he crafted the single most influential film of the past generation? And that more young filmmakers working today were influenced more by Pulp Fiction than by any other film? And that it’s nearly the only film in the past generation to be added to AFI’s list of the greatest films of all time, or that a higher percentage of his directed films have garnered writing and acting Oscar nominations than any other filmmaker?
Oh yeah…he’s not an original. Give me a break.
Real simple reply: aesthetic standards are shit now. What do “young filmmakers” know about movie history? They know Ford? Hitchcock? Renoir? Cultures have arcs, pal. If a hack like Tarantino is vaunted as an original, it’s just another indication there’s no more context for younger critics and students and viewers–a generation raised on 140 characters attention spans and Youtube cat videos.
And thanks for the belly laugh when you validate him with nods to the Academy Awards and AFI. He must be good if they say so. Dude, that’s priceless.
Pulp Fiction is not the single most influential film of the past generation. That is not a fact. To you, maybe. But, it is your opinion and not a fact. Period.
” Tarantino calls himself one of the most influential, original moviemakers ever…”
Just when exactly did he say that?
I call bullshit. You know he never said anything like that.
Are you kidding. The person that made the choice was tarantno, 70mm. And his hatefulness film subject. He can show it at his famous theatre on Beverly blvd.
The last of the small movie houses and it’s a gratis.
Tarantino is such a child. Get over yourself man, you’re not that special and the theater owners don’t care about your horrible c movies!
His work IS that special, and it would surprise me that a filmmaker whose last 2 movies have done nearly 300 million domestic alone would not be interested in him.
Considering that Star Wars: TFA has a third of that in PRE-SALES, they will definitely not be interested in him.
he should have opened his film later or a lot earlier . Star Wars is going to kill hateful 8
You didn’t read the article.
Tarantino is ridiculously overrated. Never have liked any of his movies.
You get em Ralph
Filmgoers are ridiculously overrated.
lol good one!
Seriously Disney? I will boycott Star Wars!!
… oh wait. No I won’t.
I… don’t know what to say on this.
I would guess this is easy enough to prove, right? Many people buy their tickets online, in advance, so were tickets being sold for Hateful Eight at the Dome or not? And if so, wouldn’t we now be hearing about the Dome having to refund all those Hateful Eight tickets, if this was indeed a last-minute decision? Conversely, tickets for Force Awakens went on sale well over a month ago, when I bought mine, so were they on sale at that time for the Cinerama Dome or not?
tickets for Hateful Eight’s 70mm run just went on sale this Monday
No, they were not. SW tix for the Dome only went on sale within the last 72 hours.
The tickets for “Star Wars” at the Dome were on sale in October. And they had a deal to hold the Dome for a month. So… no… not accurate…
It’s called the film business. Studios fight for screens EVERY WEEK. Theater bookings are a constant negotiation, and within those negotiations you use everything you can to leverage your position…including the threat of pulling a popular movie at other locations. Anyone who has ever worked at a distributor knows this.
Slow news day.
I agree.
Yes that’s where all movie makers should start their careers, in the distribution office.
Maybe we wouldn’t have so many creepy
movies that are box office losses.
Never suggested directors should start their careers in a distribution office. Not demeaning him as a filmmaker. Just explaining how the business works.
And Tarantino is well aware of how it works.
I agreed with the distributor assessment and tuff business ideas.
Just a suggestion about working there was intended for intros and interning. BEFORE
the idealism and romance of creation.
Quentn doesn’t need critics we got it.
Wait what am I talking about again. Lots of movies got shutoutofholidays.
Disney obviously has zero respect for the Cinerama Dome. They’re obviously clueless about the significance of the exhibition of film, and for them to force Arclight Cinemas to NOT show a film uniquely created, in Super Panavision, in the Dome, one of the few cinemas anywhere created SPECIFICALLY to show Panavision films, well, Disney is simply being a bully here. It’s truly a disppointment, them throwing their weight around when they should be respecting filmmaking. It’s pretty sickening actually. Especially when you could walk right down the street to The Chinese, The El Capitan, ANYWHERE, and see this Star Wars film, which was NOT filmed with the Dome in mind. Disney: show a little respect.
It’s obvious how distributors and exhibitors have little respect for the niche films.
No more neighborhood theatres showing the smaller films and foreign films. Not really the same as going to a megaplex.
I think this is Disney’s payback for Quentin leaving them and moving to Universal.
Yea but anyone who has ever worked in distribution knows that a film is either booked into The Chinese Theater, The El Capitan, or ArcLight Hollywood, never more then one. Disney threat of pulling The Force Awakens from all ArcLight locations because they are not in the Dome after the first week is stupid.
Why? If Harvey could do the same thing, he would.
According to Tarantino, Disney made that threat. However, as this article clearly states, the Star Wars tickets were available back in Oct.
Tarantino also said in the interview that SW was supposed to run for the two weeks prior to Christmas. But the release date has been Dec 18th for a long, LONG while. Can he not look at a calendar to see that he’s wrong?
This article refers to the “uninformed Tarantino”, and that’s exactly what we’re seeing.
Like him or hate him..Tarantino deserves his contract to be honored by Arc Light.. I hope JJ stands up for a fellow filmmaker and tells Disney ya can’t do this.
If Disney gets away with this then they will bully other
Filmmakers and their films..
J
Disney would crucify Abrams and burn his contract as a Christmas present.
Thus is the ideal solution. I agree on that. But it just isn’t going to happen….
Tarantino has a legit gripe. Of course he his is pissed.
How is it a “legit gripe”? The Arclight is in the business of making money and they must have run a cost analysis and said “Star Wars for 2 weeks in the dome is worth more than Hateful 8 for 1 week there”. Disney gave them a choice and Arclight made a decision.
Why can’t Hateful 8 run at the Dome starting on New Years?
Disney gave them an ultimatum. I’m with Quentin. I’m seeing both but c’mon, have some respect for one of the greatest living directors.
Because the cinema and Tarantino signed a contract, and Disney is trying to scam the cinema so they will play Star Wars instead of Hateful Eight.
Tarantino is a sniveling cop hating child man.
According to Tarantino. If a contract was truly broken, the theater can be legally held accountable. For all we know, the reality is as unsexy as him forgetting to cross a T on some paperwork. In any case, I doubt it’s the histrionic soap opera he’s presenting it as.
So people are buying into this fairytale of his, I see. His own words imply he is wrong/misinformed, or lying. “We were gonna play at the Cinerama Dome on the 25th. We were gonna open there and play there exclusively for two weeks. And Star Wars was gonna play the two weeks before us”
Star Wars comes out (officially, not “advance showings”) on 12/18/2015. Two weeks running time is?
1/12016 – NOT 12/25/2015, the date Tarantino is complaining about. This is all a ploy for him to get his film hyped up for free in this tsunami of Star Wars press. Nothing to see here. Move along. Move along.
Disney can let him have that one theatre. I mean, come on. It’s not like you’re not going to be able to see Star Wars at a theatre on every street corner.
it’s a question of supply and demand – and I think more people want to see Star Wars this Christmas than Hateful 8. F off Tarrantino.
In this case it isn’t really. Firstly, it’s about a contract that they signed with Hateful Eight. And secondly, you would only know this if you live in LA, or more specifically Hollywood area, Disney took up the biggest theater there (TCL Chinese) and the one across the street from it (El Capitan); both of these theaters are ONLY playing Star Wars. Literally blocks down the road is the ArcLight. Hateful Eight had booked just the dome at the ArcLight for the holidays, and a ton of people want to see it. I know at least 10 of my friends who were waiting for the ticket opening to get HE tickets to watch at the dome. Star Wars was already playing on every other non-dome screen at the ArcLight, and it’s hella petty to take the only one that was promised to HE. I work out here in the industry. This is all kinds of not cool.
The problem is, we don’t know if they really signed a contract with the Hateful Eight.
We don’t know any of this stuff.
Have you seen the contract?
I haven’t seen the contract.
Tarantino CLAIMED they signed a contract.
Other sources are saying that is wrong.
Actually that’s NOT the problem. The problem is that anyone who understands what the dome is, what it’s truly designed for, knows that H8 NEEDS to play there. If film exhibition means anything to the film industry anymore, then there should be an outcry, because putting another digital movie in the Dome when other filmmakers are trying to fight for the artistry of film on film is just wrong.
It’s wrong in every way.
I’m a huge Tarantino fan. I’ve also never watched any of the star wars films. Don’t judge me. Tarantino is a tremendous filmmaker, no question. But the star wars saga is a piece of history. There is not one director or film series that would push #7 out of the way. Sorry Quentin. Star Wars will always win.
Coke is better than Pepsi, you’re a moron. Star Wars isn’t being pushed out. Arclight has a CONTRACT for Hateful Eight in that theater. Disney are being the assholes doing the pushing out. Get your shit straight.
Mitch, Disney and the Dome notified The Weinstein Company (TWC) back in OCTOBER that they’d be showing Star Wars and not The Hateful Eight, but Tarantino only got notified by TWC this week. So, there is a miscommunication between Tarantino and The Weinstein Company. If TWC had notified Tarantino back in October, maybe something could’ve been worked out between all sides involved.
The Dome isn’t even great for non-cinerama films. In fact, I avoid it. The Dome should put priority on films that are actually filmed for cinerama.
I agree 100%. All you have to do is watch how the end credits are crooked on the curved screen to know that films are no longer made or being projected for that screen. And the sound sucks.
Has Tarantino always been as sad and whiny as he’s been the last couple of years?
Like him or hate him,Tarantino deserves his contract to be honored by Arc Light.
Nope, he’s been this way ever since ‘Reservoir Dogs’ The last good movie he directed was the criminally overlooked ‘Jackie Brown’
Sorry Quentin, it’s Star Wars, an event 30+ years in the making. Have s little humility. Yes, you’re a legendary director, but Star Wars is far more legendary and a MUCH bigger deal!
Are you kidding? Tarantino deserves his contract to be honored by Arc Light, “far more legendary” or not.
What contract?
If he has a contract, all he has to do is sue, and his movie would be showing. As he is not suing, then he must not have a contract.
So basically you are ok they strong armed his movie out a spot that he had a CONTRACT on? I think you might need to learn some humility lol.
Wrong. Star Wars is showing everywhere, you can go to LARGER theaters than the Dome to see Star Wars. It’s digital, which is NOT what the dome was designed specifically for like the Panavision work of Hateful Eight. The work done on H8, from an technical perspective, and the dome, from the perspective of film exhibition, is a far superior marriage of art and commerce than showing Star Wars in that theater. This is pure idiocy on many fronts. Show Star Wars on every other screen at the Arclight Hollywood. Who cares? But put H8 in the Dome, where it LOGICALLY SHOULD BE PLAYING.
Disney has no shame and needs to stop being a cooperate soulless bully. It makes me think if Disney was Hacked like Sony What awful things we’d find out …this is not Mickey Mouse
I think Disney has more sense in the IT department than Sony, and a close relationship with Apple.
I agree completely. I wonder what Walt Disney himself would make of it. He was a man who early on was doggedly entrenched in the painstaking artistry of filmmaking. The role of film exhibition was something that he was obsessed with. I don’t see the spirit of Walt Disney behind any of this. I bet an overwhelming majority of directors and cinematographers are gobsmacked at Disney over this. they’re showing zero respect for the art of film in this case. Honestly, pulling out the “this is the way marketing is done, you have to play it in the largest theater” bit? That’s what you’ve got? This is a little sickening.
Are you a stoner the entire world wants to see the film just as they go to Disneyland all over the world, and you’re trying to say
queni is an equal.
qt is not as important as MM and it hurts him so…
We know Quentin won’t call 911 but he can still call 1800-WAAAAAAAH!
From you comment history I would have thought you would be in favor of things like honoring agreements but apparently it’s more important to hate on Hollywood liberals than have ethics.
Crybaby, what did you expect? TFA is the biggest release of all time, the most anticipated movie of all time and Disney is doing what makes sense from all points of view. Who cares about the hateful 8 beyond a bunch of self-styled hipsters and snobs, really? At any rate, after listening to this childish rant I think Quentin needs to realize he is not the center of the world. He can always call the cops to complain.
Not ALL points. Because the dome is one of the only theaters anywhere specifically designed to show a 70mm Panavision shot film. So, from an artistic perspective, they’re way off here.
Why is this an issue the film will be shown there at some point if it’s a good film who cares what month it’s shown. It’s just a stunt for publicity. Don’t worry well all go see it when it’s shown at the dome well be there to watch the film. And it won’t have any competition. Wouldn’t that be the better time to show the movie instead of not selling any tickets. What are you kidding.
Saw Stars Wars: The Force Awakens and it’s SPECTACULAR!!! Pure action and entertainment. With all due my respect to Quentin Tarantula, I’m not sure if I want to sit for 3 hours watching an auteur-movie in a Broadway musical style theater presentation with intermission and such. Django Unchained was already very long. I’d rather watch his movies on video. At the theaters, I prefer non-stop action movies.
+1 for the Bojack Horseman reference… Fuck it, I’ll give it a +2 all by my lonesome.
Sounds like something he could file RICO charges for. That is why block booking was outlawed in the 1940s.
Come into the 21st Century this isn’t 1945 any more those days passed years ago. RICO, lol Racketeering, lol I think Arclight looked at the bottom line, Star Wars – The Hateful Eight to make money and lots of it which one would you choose, not the artsy one that’s for sure.
Applying RICO vs the Mouse House? ROTFLMAO :) RICO isn’t even used much to fight organized crime any more! It’s mostly used to steal every cent from people who still feel the need to protest outside PP/abortion clinics.
It sounds to me like CD was willing to accept less revenue from H8 to accomodate Tarantino here. Disney went all gangsta on them when they found out. That’s classless for the world’s #1 family entertainment company. Where is the friendship they scream about on a weekly basis in their Famliy programming?