This was the view from Cannes this year. My entertainment counsel attends the Cannes Film Festival and the distribution conference each year. She’s Stanford and super bright at all of this moving picture stuff.
If you make a big feature film and it doesn’t get theatrical distribution — you’ve effectively made a very expensive home movie. Like those vacation movies you took at Disneyland? Except these star Meryl Streep or Ryan Gosling.
It’s cheaper to just rent out Disneyland for a week. Go crazy.
Let your hair down.