The disappearance of online-only movies needs to be fixed – The Hollywood Reporter

Christopher Nolan

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Christopher Nolan addresses concerns that filmmakers’ projects could disappear if they are removed from streaming platforms and not available to watch on physical media.

During a conversation with Washington Post Published online Friday, Oppenheimer The director discussed his upcoming film’s home release. Nolan explained that comment he made recently Oppenheimer His presentation of the importance of home release to prevent an “evil streaming service” from stealing the project from viewers was just a joke, but he sees a potential danger to movies that only exist on streaming devices.

“There’s a danger these days that if things are only in the live version, they’ll be deleted,” Nolan told the publication. “They come and go — like with streaming versions of movies, so my movies will be on HBO or whatever, they’ll come and go. But the home video release is the thing that can always be there, so people can always access it.” And since the 1980s, as filmmakers, we’ve taken that for granted, and now we have to make sure there’s a way this can continue, if not through physical media.

Nolan explained that he discourages changes in how people experience films, and said that “film culture thrives on new innovations.” But he also knows that “access to your business” is something that needs to be protected.

He continued: “The danger I am talking about is that the director’s film disappears from broadcast one day and then does not return or does not return for a long period of time, and this is not an intentional conspiracy.” “This is just the way things evolve with specific licensing agreements. So, it’s something worth pointing out because it will need to be fixed, but I’m very confident that it will be.”

The topic of titles permanently disappearing from streaming services has become a relevant topic in recent months. Earlier this year, Disney took a $1.5 billion tax write-off after dropping more than 70 titles from Disney+ and Hulu, while Warner Bros. Discovery license deals with ad-supported free channels for its previously dropped shows, including The westwhich was co-created by Nolan’s brother Jonathan Nolan.