Multi-Oscar winner Sean Baker has some straightforward structural advice for how the film industry should respond to Netflix’s seismic acquisition of Warner Bros.

“We should actually be expanding theatrical windows, not shortening them,” Baker said Sunday during a public appearance at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival, where he is serving as head of the event’s competition jury this week.

“I mean, you can’t wait an extra three months to get your streaming money or your VOD money?” he added. “Filmmakers have to put our foot down.”

Multi-Oscar winner Sean Baker has some straightforward structural advice for how the film industry should respond to Netflix’s seismic acquisition of Warner Bros.

“We should actually be expanding theatrical windows, not shortening them,”

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