after a brief run in theaters that are open around the country, not L.A. or NY obviously, and receptive to playing it. In a conversation I had with its Oscar-winning writer\-director him this week, he sang the praises of Netflix coming to the rescue of the film by releasing itthe November 3 election, something original distributor Paramount felt it couldn’t do in the current climate.
“We’re able to come out when we were scheduled to come out because of Netflix,” he said. “The film’s distributor was Paramount, and several months ago, I was on a marketing Zoom call that included Jim Gianopulos, the chairman of Paramount, and at the end of the call, Jim said, ‘You know, guys, we really don’t know what the exhibition business is going to look like in the fall.
“They just want people to vote, and they are combatting voter suppression, OK? They want you to know that voting by mail is perfectly safe, perfectly secure. Voter fraud is not something that actually exists, and that Election Night this year is going to look different than what we’re used to.”