The move to release movies on streaming on the same day as in theaters is’desperate attempt to grab the audience’s attention’. Denis villeneuve has written an article for variety blasting Warner Brothers and at & T.

‘there is absolutely no love for cinema, nor for the audience here,’ he writes.’it is all about the survival of a telecom mammoth, one that is currently bearing an astronomical debt of more than $ 150 billion’.

Villeneuve says dune’s’image and sound were designed to be seen in theaters’. villeneuve says the original plan was to delay dune to October 2021.

At & T, NBCUniversal, and viacomcbs have defended the release strategy. But with directors of the blockbusters starting to voice their disapproval, it’ll be interesting to see how audiences respond.

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