The Amazon Road House remake was a huge streaming hit earlier this year, becoming the biggest Prime original ever. Good luck raised the question of how the action film might have held up if it had been released in theaters, especially after its director Doug Liman criticized Amazon for not bringing it to the big screen just before its release. Months later, Liman has more on his mind to talk about the Jake Gyllenhaal-directed film that will be broadcast directly.
As Liman promotes his new film, The Instigators, starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck as thieves on the run, the director picked his brain on Road House and revealed more insights into how the streaming studio handled things. In his words:
First of all, I have no problem with streaming. We want streaming movies because we want writers to go to work, administrators and actors to go to work, and not every single movie to be in a movie theater. That’s why I’m a big believer in TV shows, streaming movies, theatrical movies, we have it all. My challenge with “Road House” is that we made the movie for MGM to be in theaters, each and every one of them was paid as if they were passing to be in theaters, and then Amazon passed it to us and no one was compensated. Forget the effect on the industry: another 50 million people saw “Road House. ” I didn’t get a dime, Jake Gyllenhaal didn’t get a dime, [producer] Joel Silver didn’t get a dime. This is false.
In an interview with IndieWire, Doug Liman talked about him and the other Road House filmmakers and stars not getting paid in the end because of the film’s huge fortune on Amazon Prime. According to his comments, the studio took all the profits from the millions of people who saw the action movie instead of sharing them with those who made the movie imaginable through their producing, writing, directing and acting. ‘actor.
Moreover, if Road House had been a hit in theaters, it would have provided a cut to those theaters as well, as well as the collective delight of audiences watching the remake of the classic ’80s film. When Liman first expressed his sadness for Road House, he claimed that when the deal was made for the film for the first time, he did so with MGM with the goal of shooting it for theaters. However, when Amazon bought MGM just months before Road House began filming, the company reportedly told Liman to “make a great movie” and “see what happens” regarding the premiere.
Liman also shared in the past that Road House was also well-liked by audiences, surpassing his early 2000s blockbuster, Mr. and Ms. Smith, as well as The Bourne Identity. This turned out to be true given all the positive reactions from the audience, adding CinemaBlend. The Road House review gave the film four out of five stars. He also noted that Conor McGregor’s main UFC continuation may have also been sent to theaters.
Liman’s latest film will hit theaters for a week (August 2) before being available to Apple TV subscribers on August 9. Here’s how he compares his experience with Apple and Amazon:
In the case of Apple, from the beginning we said we were doing this for streaming, our contracts compensate for streaming, we all get paid for streaming – what’s called a streaming purchase – so Apple has been on top. . . recommendation from the beginning.
Doug Liman would possibly not support the release of The Instigators, which he attributes to his collaboration with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s production company, and which let his “rebellious” nature shine during the making of the film. Check out the Apple original starting this weekend.
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