Wake Up Dead Man is another crowd-pleasing entry in writer-director Rian Johnson’s Knives Out murder mystery franchise. It’s the kind of movie that should be crushing it with audiences on the big screen. But Netflix would rather you see it on their streamer.

The third installment of the Knives Out films, Wake Up Dead Man, is now in theaters. But don’t feel bad if you didn’t notice. It’s an extremely limited release in just a tiny handful of theaters before it starts its Netflix run tomorrow on December 12. It’s not an ideal arrangement for a movie with big commercial possibilities, and writer-director Rian Johnson made his unhappiness known in public comments right out of the gate.

In this, Johnson was prescient, because Wake Up Dead Man has done anemic business so far compared to the fi

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