Todd Phillips Wants Cinemas To Forgo Commercials Before Screening Movies: “We’ve Paid For Our Tickets”
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deadline.comJoker: Folie à Deux director Todd Phillips has one solution to improve movie theaters: forgoing showing commercials ahead of a film’s screening.
Speaking to Empire magazine as part of a filmmakers’ poll on what the future of movies and entertainment would look like — from artificial intelligence to streamers vs.
theaters and beyond — the multi-Oscar nominee gave an answer slightly different from the rest. “Stop showing commercials before the movies,” he said. “We’ve paid for our tickets.
We’re excited to be there. The commercials tend to take the air out of the room.” Presumably, the filmmaker is referencing the ads that play before the trailers for upcoming features.
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