Greta Gerwig’s Narnia will also be released in Imax cinemas in 2026
The director found a compromise with Netflix for her adaptation: an exclusive release two weeks before that of the platform.
Greta Gerwigthe director of Lady Bird and global success barbiemanaged to convince Netflix !
With her billion dollars in revenue two years ago with Margot Robbie, she was able to influence Netflix’s policy and its distribution strategy for its adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia. CS Lewis’s seven books have sold more than 115 million copies and translated into 57 languages. Netflix therefore places a lot of hope in this project, which could become their next successful franchise.
The standoff between the two parties had been underway for several months, following the decision taken by the N rouge not to broadcast the new adaptations of the novels to the cinema, reserving an exclusive streaming release during the period of christmas 2026.
A commercial strategy popular with the platform which did not please the director of the pink box office of summer 2023, having brought in more than 1.5 billion dollars. Imax has just announced that Narnia should be released on screen two weeks before its broadcast on the platform, on the day of Thanksgiving 2026.
We remember the rant of Daniel Craig for the 2022 release ofGlass Onion: A tale of daggers drawnwhich was cut short to just one week on air. Perhaps this time, Netflix sought to avoid the wrath of the artists behind the project.
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