Zachary Levi

I think with the Netflix deal, it's particularly troubling because they don't really care about theatrical release.

And I think that theatrical release is imperative for us.

I think that not just from a financial modeling or, you know, allowing filmmakers and artists to be able to, you know, make a living making movies that go into theaters that people don't

pay ticket, you know, pay for tickets.

But when we don't go to theaters, this is something that's, I think, driving us apart.

You know, part of the theatrical experience for decades is that you go to a theater and you are surrounded by strangers, people that don't look like you, don't agree with you.

It might come from different political or religious backgrounds, whatever it is.

But you know that you can go watch the same movie and laugh in the same moments and cry in the same moments.

And what that does is it reminds you, either consciously or subconsciously, that we're not all that different.

And so when we don't go to the theater as people and we don't enjoy these things as a collective, we lose even more of that connective tissue.

And I know that Netflix is, you know, they...

to Sarandos instead as much.

He said, you know, I think we can do film windows that, you know, theatrical windows that are like a week or two weeks.

And that's just simply not enough time, I think, to give a great film its opportunity in the theater.

Some films don't even pick up their inertia until a few weeks in the theaters when word of mouth gets out and people start going to the theater and experiencing that as it was meant to be exhibited.

And so I really don't love that.

I don't love the consolidation.

I don't love that with streaming, by the way,

This is another issue that we have and something that I'm actively trying to solve for.

We don't own anything anymore.