I don’t know, man, that’s out of my purview. It’s probably good for Netflix’s stockholders that I don’t run Netflix. The reality is, we’re partners with them and they’ve been terrific to us, but very obviously, I wish we could have been in theaters longer. Hopefully, next time, we will be.

Lionsgate distributed the first movie, but there was no sequel deal, which meant that major companies like Apple, Netflix and Amazon all made offers to secure the future of the franchise. Have you ever gone through a bidding war like that before?

It’s a first for me.

So, how did it feel to be the belle of the ball?

Very cool, but also nerve-racking, because it’s not just about taking the best deal. It’s about trying to innovate in a time of great tumultuous change.

What were the factors that you weighed?

Ultimately, it was a moment where the model that we released “Knives Out” under had ceased to exist, and a moment where the studios were basically flipping their big movies to streamers anyway. Having a direct partner with the biggest streamer made a lot of sense.

When you say that the model for releasing “Knives Out” had ceased to exist, do you mean it didn’t exist in March 2021, or do you think that model doesn’t exist going forward, period?

I was talking about ’21, when we struck the deal. Right now, I don’t know. I’m probably a little more optimistic about theatrical, but at the same time, you look at the numbers and it’s not what it was prepandemic. Even when I’m thinking about the next movie, which I’m about to start writing, who the hell knows what the landscape is going to look like when it’s actually time to release it? All I know is it’ll probably be as different from today as today was from ’21.

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