Post by andrew8798 on Dec 16, 2015 17:51:03 GMT -5
Quentin Tarantino had some choice words for Disney on Wednesday morning when he visited The Howard Stern Show to talk about his upcoming movie, The Hateful Eight.
The director went on quite a lengthy rant about the mistreatment he and his movie were receiving from the studio after they were forced out of Los Angeles' famous Cinerama Dome so Star Wars could play the entire holiday season.
According to Tarantino, the original deal was that The Hateful Eight would be allocated two weeks of exclusive screen time starting on Christmas Day, which makes sense considering the Cinerama Dome is one of the few theaters in L.A. that's already set up to project 70mm films.
The director went on quite a lengthy rant about the mistreatment he and his movie were receiving from the studio after they were forced out of Los Angeles' famous Cinerama Dome so Star Wars could play the entire holiday season.
According to Tarantino, the original deal was that The Hateful Eight would be allocated two weeks of exclusive screen time starting on Christmas Day, which makes sense considering the Cinerama Dome is one of the few theaters in L.A. that's already set up to project 70mm films.
Quentin Tarantino went on the Howard Stern SiriusXM radio show and spoke about how Disney is strong-arming Arclight Cinemas to push the director’s 70MM presentation of his eighth film The Hateful Eight aside in favor of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in LA’s famed Cinemarama Dome. The director first learned about this on Monday. The western was originally due to play there, claims Tarantino, starting on Dec. 25th, but now Force Awakens is getting an extended play through the holidays.
“It was real bad news and it f***ing pissed me off,” Tarantino told Stern. “They are going out of their way to f*** me.”
All per Tarantino: when ArcLight Cinemas told Disney they were honoring their contract for Hateful Eight, Disney threatened to pull Force Awakens from all ArcLight locations.
Living here in L.A., The Cinerama Dome is a prized venue for Tarantino. In fact that the Cinerama logo appears in the opening credits of The Hateful Eight. The premiere for the film was held on Monday, Dec. 7 at the Cinerama Dome and the director told Deadline’s Pete Hammond, “I made The Hateful Eight for the Dome…This is the first time seeing it at the Dome for me too, and it was like I hadn’t even seen it before, not like this.”
“It’s vindictive, it’s mean, and it’s extortion,” Tarantino added. The Oscar-winning fimmaker further added that his beef isn’t with Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams, but with the top suits at Disney. In fact, Abrams worked with Tarantino when the director starred as McKenas Cole on Abrams’ ABC show Alias. “I made a lot of money for the Disney corporation,” Tarantino told Stern referring to the days when Disney owned Miramax and released such titles as Pulp Fiction ($213.9M worldwide) and the Kill Bill two pic saga (combined $333M worldwide) as well as Jackie Brown ($40M domestic).
“It was real bad news and it f***ing pissed me off,” Tarantino told Stern. “They are going out of their way to f*** me.”
All per Tarantino: when ArcLight Cinemas told Disney they were honoring their contract for Hateful Eight, Disney threatened to pull Force Awakens from all ArcLight locations.
Living here in L.A., The Cinerama Dome is a prized venue for Tarantino. In fact that the Cinerama logo appears in the opening credits of The Hateful Eight. The premiere for the film was held on Monday, Dec. 7 at the Cinerama Dome and the director told Deadline’s Pete Hammond, “I made The Hateful Eight for the Dome…This is the first time seeing it at the Dome for me too, and it was like I hadn’t even seen it before, not like this.”
“It’s vindictive, it’s mean, and it’s extortion,” Tarantino added. The Oscar-winning fimmaker further added that his beef isn’t with Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams, but with the top suits at Disney. In fact, Abrams worked with Tarantino when the director starred as McKenas Cole on Abrams’ ABC show Alias. “I made a lot of money for the Disney corporation,” Tarantino told Stern referring to the days when Disney owned Miramax and released such titles as Pulp Fiction ($213.9M worldwide) and the Kill Bill two pic saga (combined $333M worldwide) as well as Jackie Brown ($40M domestic).
By the way, I know this is off-topic, but I cannot f***ing wait for that movie to get destroyed in the box office by opening the same day as Star Wars. 
