He’s a cable guy, who came to Universal’s film division from Comcast in 2015. However, Shell is known as a longstanding champion of squeezing the theatrical window, and getting movies into homes sooner. After all, actions speak more than words: Universal as a believer in theatrical did push F9 to next year, and yet they’re taking a more-TV centric title like The King of Staten Island starring SNL‘s Pete Davidson into homes instead of theaters. Some in distribution and exhibition think that Aron may have overreacted here to Shell’s statements perhaps the exhibition boss misconstrued them or took them out of context. As soon as theaters reopen, we expect to release movies on both formats.”

AMC Tells Universal It Won't License Studio's Movies, After CEO's Statements On Windows & 'Trolls World Tour'Īron took umbrage with NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell’s statements in the Wall Street Journal this morning in which he told the paper “The results for Trolls World Tour have exceeded our expectations and demonstrated the viability of PVOD.

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