Watching that finale in the theater like…
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Strange is seeing Netflix and AMC Theaters get along at all. But even stranger? Netflix is debuting the final series of its biggest show in the exhibitor’s movie theaters to ring in the New Year. During the two-hour Stranger Things finale will land on Netflix as expected, the streamer announced that it will also work with 350 theaters across the United States and Canada to release the finale as a fan event December 31 and January 1. The theatrical releases begin at 8 pm ET on New Year’s Eve, in sync with the episode’s Netflix debut.
This news comes a week after series showrunners Matt and Ross Duffer expressed interest in the possibility in their Variety profile: “People don’t get to experience how much time and effort is spent on sound and picture, and they’re seeing it at reduced quality,” they said of the Netflix experience, also noting that they wanted fans to watch the finale together.
In that same profile, Netflix’s chief creative officer, Bela Bajaria, dismissed the idea, saying that Stranger Things‘s strictly-on-streaming existence hasn’t seen it suffer from a “lack of conversation or community.” But interviews for that profile were conducted weeks ago, and Puck first reported earlier this week that since then, Netflix struck a deal with AMC to show KPop Demon Hunters in its theaters — a sign of thawing relations between two companies that had been engaged in a cold war since around 2019. The Variety profile dropped before the deal was reportedly “far enough along,” which is why Bejaria did not confirm the news. We reached out to AMC and Netflix for comment.
Either way, the Duffers are probably thrilled. The ink is barely dry on their deal with Paramount, and the duo declined to stay with Netflix because of that streamer’s long-term aversion to theatrical releases. At least Netflix gave the showrunners of its biggest franchise a nice good-bye present.
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