Netflix has a real problem with its 'no theaters' strategy, says Puck's Matt Belloni (youtube.com)
Top film makers still want their movies to go to theaters, and unlike Amazon, Netflix has said they won't do that (they experimented with it and decided against it, some time ago).
There's a new movie with some buzz, and Netflix offered $150m because they really want it, but the people behind it haven't decided to sell it to them because they want to go to theaters.
The first Joker movie was the guy's first big film, $60m, went to Venice Film Festival and won, so the studio gave him $200m for this one but it's doing very poorly.
The Apprentice only grossed $1.5m, despite having so much press. Timed well for the elction, cost $16m. No big stars (Jeremy Strong is a good actor and has Succession and Big Short fame but I don't think is has star draw). Democrats don't want to watch Trump because they don't like him. Republicans know Trump didn't support this film so they don't want to watch anti-Trump characterization.
A film about SNL didn't do well either in the box office, but predictions are that people don't want to watch movies about television in theaters, but it will do very well once it goes onto Netflix.