With 'The Trial of the Chicago 7,' Netflix returns to movie theaters amid the pandemic

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With this weekend's limited release of 'The Trial of the Chicago 7,' Netflix is making its first robust return to theaters since the pandemic struck. What's at stake for the streamer and the industry as a whole.

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For Netflix, in dogged pursuit of its first best picture Oscar, the awards derby ahead is filled with both promise and peril. On the heels of the underperformance of Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” from Warner Bros., major studios continue to appear weary of wide releases. Earlier this week, Disney pushed a key Oscar hopeful, Steven Spielberg’s new take on “West Side Story,” a full year to December 2021.

Then again, even if the field of competition thins out, will general audiences have any interest in an Oscar race devoid of blockbuster theatrical titles à la “Joker,” “A Star Is Born” or “Black Panther” in recent years? Amid so much anxiety, Netflix’s theatrical rollout of “Chicago 7" at least provides a hopeful green shoot in the otherwise fallow landscape of theatrical distribution. But it’s also a reminder that even for a company thus far shielded from the worst impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, there are trials ahead. And no matter where you look in the film ecosystem, the outlook remains far from certain.

 

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The Chicago 7... oh yes, they got Nixon elected.

Idiot Putin didnt let us to fly 4th time

Without even doing a bit of research, I'm sure this film is another 'poor innocent black guy' so typical of Hollywood. If they just produce enough of this garbage maybe people will actually forget that black men (8% of population) don't commit 47% of murders int he US.

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