‘West Side Story’ by Steven Spielberg premieres in December 2021;In addition the director signs agreement with Netflix
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The film adaptation of the musical West Side Story arrives in December 2021 by the renowned director Steven Spielberg.The drama and romance musical was created in 1957 by Arthur Laurents.
This adaptation is expected that Spielberg has been more faithful to Broadway musical, but not to the tape that precedes him, made in 1961 and directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins.
On the other hand, Steven Spielberg's company, Amblin Partners, announced Monday that he signed an agreement with Netflix to produce several films a year that will be released on the streaming platform.
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The contract is an important impulse for the television giant, but will be developed in parallel to the agreement that the filmmaker has signed with the universal studies to roll and release large budget projects in cinemas in cinemas.
"From the moment we started talking about an alliance (with Netflix), it was very clear that we had an incredible opportunity to tell stories together and reach the public in new ways," Spielberg said in a statement.
Since Rome took the Oscar for the best foreign film, Netflix has folded its commitment to cinema and has profiled as another competitor for Hollywood studies.
After the success of the audience and criticism achieved by tapes such as Marriage Story, The Irishman and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, the platform is promoting the production of feature films, with the promise to release a film a week.
Pandemia has benefited this strategy, since the company has acquired films from other studies such as The Trial of Chicago 7 -produced by Amblin -that Paramount could not release in cinemas and, after a last -minute sale, became one ofThe most important successes of Netflix in the last season.
The treatment is “to make television movies, exactly what Spielberg said Netflix does.Amblin maintains his contract with Universal for film films, ”said analyst Matthew Belloni, former head editor of The Hollywood Reporter.
Amblin is responsible for successes such as Green Book, who won the Oscar for the best film in 2019, and 1917, nominated for the same award in 2020.
For his part, in his hunting of Netflix talents he has already signed Keanu Reeves (The Matrix) to star.
This bet fits into the efforts that the television giant is giving to find a superhero franchise that can compete with the Marvel universes in Disney+ and DC Comics in HBO Max, now that both platforms fight against Netflix for the small screen market in all the world. (E)
