to do this? how can we expand our theatrical? how can we actually get to a place where the audience has that choice in the biggest and most profound ways? sometimes it s here, sometimes there. and i think if you look at our competitors in the way that disney and warner s and others are doing it, they re doing the exact same thing. so everyone s trying to say, ok, where is the audience for this movie? i m going to put it straight into disney+, or, in the cinema. and i think it reallyjust becomes, now, what you believe the best version of that film is for that audience, right, and where you think you can do the best in the business with it, so. anecdotally, i mean, lots of people i ve spoken to who saw the power of the dog on the small screen actually found it a bit boring and missed the twist. people who saw on the big screen absolutely loved it. so you ve got to hope that those academy award voters saw it on the big screen. exactly. you never know. you never know these days where e
has that choice in the biggest and most profound ways? sometimes it s here, sometimes there. and i think if you look at our competitors in the way that disney and warner s and others are doing it, they re doing the exact same thing. so everyone s trying to say, ok, where is the audience for this movie? i m going to put it straight into disney+, or, i m going to put it in the cinema. and i think it reallyjust becomes, now, what you believe the best version of that film is for that audience, right, and where you think you can do the best in the business with it, so. anecdotally, i mean, lots of people i ve spoken to who saw the power of the dog on the small screen actually found it a bit boring and missed the twist. people who saw on the big screen absolutely loved it. so you ve got to hope that those academy award voters saw it on the big screen. exactly. you never know. you never know these days where everybody s watching it, right? ok, what about quality? it s estimated netflix r
of the dog is a great example of a movie which is arguably best seen in a cinema, you know, those huge scapes. if netflix wanted to, it could decide to lengthen the theatrical window, as it s called, that period when films are exclusively available only in the cinema, to months instead of weeks. and that would have given the cinema a huge boost, particularly after the pandemic. why don t you do that and why didn t you do that with the power of the dog? well, we re constantly iterating, evolving. i think sometimes there s misinformation about it. on the power of the dog, it was, in certain places, in cinemas exclusively for three to four weeks, right? and it still is, right? so it continues to run in over 2,000 screens. many places only two weeks, though, ithink, before it. no, but then it kept going. it was different in different windows, right? so it was really trying to get that optionality in terms of where the audience was and expand it, right? and i think, also, we re trying to le
this is bbc news. we will have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. hello. this week, i m in los angeles for the 94th academy awards, which take place on sunday. and one film in particular is attracting a lot of oscars attention. the power of the dog, directed byjane campion and starring benedict cumberbatch, is a slow burning western based in 1920s montana. it is up for 12 nominations, including best picture, and one man who will be watching sunday s proceedings with trepidation is scott stuber, who is head of global films at netflix. if the film does win that category, it ll be the first time a netflix made movie has triumphed, after roma and the irishman fell
i think. you know, it s interesting. what i ve learned, and i think you continue to learn, is when we think of global, it really is, in a lot of times we think of spectacle and scope and visual effects. but really, at the end of the day, if you think about both those that you referenced, roma is a story about family and it is a story that s universal in every way, and so, really, if the person at the centre of the story, a man or woman, whatever ethnicity, whatever. ..if it s a human experience, that s a global movie. and squid game is a global issue right now about inequity and what those things go into it and decisions we would make that we would all ask ourselves in those situations. so, to me, that s the exciting part, is. yes, the world is getting smaller in terms of opportunities for global storytellers, but, really, when you re telling a story. like, we have a terrific film, hand of god, that s nominated, it s really about family and it s about pain and loss, and how do we figur