Before Netflix had grown into a world-conquering streaming giant, “Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry” director R.J. Cutler would routinely bump into the company’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos on th…
on the film festival circuit. Netflix was still a DVD-by-mail rental service at the time, and Sarandos confided to him that “The War Room” – Cutler’s Oscar-nominated Bill Clinton campaign doc – was among its most popular rentals.
Cutler admitted that such success wasn’t guaranteed when he decided to collaborate with cinéma vérité pioneers D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus on “The War Room,” which would earn an Academy Award nomination for best documentary feature and enjoy a wide theatrical release. He recalled being offered a $25,000 advance by October Films, eventually haggling his way up to $100,000 on a movie that “had probably cost us a million dollars to make.
Despite the streaming boom, Cutler added, “big-screen distribution is as robust as ever.” More than 200 documentary films enjoyed Oscar-qualifying theatrical runs last year, he noted, while in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, three documentaries – including “Billie Eilish” – enjoyed theatrical releases on more than 700 screens in 2021.
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