Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticA column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 begins streaming today on Netflix after a brief run in theaters that are open around the country, not L.A.
or NY obviously, and receptive to playing it. In a conversation I had with its Oscar-winning writer\-director him this week, he sang the praises of Netflix coming to the rescue of the film by releasing it before the November 3 election, something original distributor Paramount felt it couldn’t do in the current climate.
But Sorkin hopes it isn’t going to be the rule once COVID is behind us and the exhibition business can get back to some sense of normalcy.
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