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Greta Gerwig has leveraged her “Barbie” star energy to persuade Netflix to provide her the massive, broad theatrical launch she needed for “Narnia,” her adaptation of CS Lewis’ fantasy sequence.
After months of negotiations, Imax introduced that “Narnia” can be launched solely on its screens worldwide for 2 weeks upfront of the movie’s debut on Netflix. “Narnia” is presently slated to open in Imax on Thanksgiving Day 2026. It’s going to premiere on Netflix at Christmas of the identical 12 months.
The Imax launch is a rarity for the streamer, which does grant restricted, Oscar-qualifying theatrical releases for its awards hopefuls like “Emilia Perez” and “Maria,” however principally prefers to have its films, significantly the extra broadly business ones, debut on its platform. There have been exceptions. In 2022, for instance, Netflix allowed: “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Thriller” to have an unique one-week run in additional than 600 venues, its widest-ever theatrical launch. Different streamers have taken a looser strategy to theatrical distribution, with the likes of Amazon and Apple debuting films in cinemas, and permitting them to run there for weeks, even months, earlier than they seem on their streaming providers. That is left Netflix failing to land sure buzzy tasks that wish to display screen in cinemas first.
In 2018, Netflix introduced it might develop new sequence and movie tasks based mostly on Lewis’ “The Chronicles of Narnia” sequence. In 2020, it enlisted Gerwig, who has been nominated for an Oscar for guiding “Girl Hen” and likewise oversaw an acclaimed adaptation of “Little Ladies.” Her star solely continued to climb within the following years. In 2023, Gerwig directed “Barbie,” which was the 12 months’s highest-grossing movie, incomes almost $1.5 billion worldwide and turning into a shiny pink phenomenon.
In whole, the seven Narnia books have bought over 115 million copies and have been translated into 57 languages worldwide. Netflix hopes the movies will turn out to be its subsequent main franchise.
Puck first reported {that a} cope with Imax had been reached.
Greta Gerwig’s ‘Narnia’ Will get Imax Launch
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