
Christopher Nolan Doesn’t Like Streaming — And He Has a Point
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Disney has recently found itself in a bit of a digital dilemma, as we reported recently, as it debates re-focusing its efforts away from its legacy broadcast services and established streamer Hulu for its growing but loss-making Disney+. Disney (NYSE:DIS) isn’t alone in this, nearly every media company is moving in this direction, with Warner Brothers making an even bolder push towards streaming abandoning theaters entirely for 2021. But what do the artists that create the content for these platforms think of this market trend? Christopher Nolan, Warner Brothers’ best-known director, hates it calling the studio’s HBO Max platform "the worst streaming service” in a recent interview.
“Some of our industry’s biggest filmmakers and most important movie stars went to bed the night before thinking they were working for the greatest movie studio and woke up to find out they were working for the worst streaming service,” Nolan told The Hollywood Reporter. “Warner Brothers had an incredible machine for getting a filmmaker’s work out everywhere, both in theaters and in the home, and they are dismantling it as we speak. They don’t even understand what they’re losing. Their decision makes no economic sense, and even the most casual Wall Street investor can see the difference between disruption and dysfunction.”