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Todd Phillips Wants Cinemas To Forgo Commercials Before Screening Movies: “We’ve Paid For Our Tickets”
'Joker: Folie à Deux' director Todd Phillips has one solution to improve movie theaters: forgoing showing commercials ahead of a film's screening.
Speaking to Empire magazine as part of a filmmakers’ poll on what the future of movies and entertainment would look like — from artificial intelligence to streamers vs. theaters and beyond — the multi-Oscar nominee gave an answer slightly different from the rest. In the same interview, Anora helmer Sean Baker lamented filmmakers’ pivots toward streaming and the television world amid an embrace for digital versus analog cinematography. Fellow colleague Paul Schrader vocalized his distaste for the film, saying he went shopping while screening it in theaters and deemed it a “really bad musical.” However, another industry vet, Quentin Tarantino, praised the DC flick, calling it a “f— you” to Hollywood and moviegoers.
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