The winds of change with theatrical and streaming coming out of Covid were top of mind this morning at the TIFF panel for Dialogues: Production & Development which included TriStar President Nicole Brown, Knives Out franchise producer Ram Bergman and White Noise producer Uri Singer.It was an interesting dais: All three are involved with adult-skewing awards bait titles this season.
Brown, who has been a force about getting the Viola Davis starring, Gina Prince-Bythewood directed Braveheart-like movie The Woman King made, is an exec at a studio which is dedicated to theatrical.
Bergman had a pre-pandemic theatrical sleeper hit in Knives Out ($311M), sold the sequels to Netflix for $400M, while Singer transformed White Noise from an anticipated limited series into a Venice film festival premiere directed and adapted by Noah Baumbach.“I call the pandemic the big earthquake in Hollywood,” said Brown, “There was always streaming, but it embolden this business and showed consumers that’s there an opportunity to stay at home and watch great material.”But as adults have returned to the cinema, albeit slowly this summer, to pics like Elvis and Where the Crawdads Sing, Brown says “there’s less theatrical ideas which make sense; the ideas have to big.
Your cast has to be as strong as possible. Your execution has to be A+. There’s no more good theatrical movies. They all have to be great.
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