BEASTS OF NO NATION, To Hit Theaters and Netflix
In the on-going battle between the big screen and the small screen, Netflix made a splash by buying the rights to a major new movie, directed by Cary Fugunaka and starring Idris Elba. Beasts of No Nation. It is based on the 2005 novel by Uzodinma Iweala about child soldiers in West Africa.
There’s one problem. To be eligible for Oscar consideration, the movie has to open in theaters. While many theaters refuse to book movies that will be released simultaneously on cable, Netflix has managed to make a deal with Landmark Theatres to premier the movie in 19 cities on the same day it begins streaming on Netflix, October 16.
The first trailer was just released:
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Uzodinma Iweala
Harper Perennial: September 29, 2015,
The author won New York Public Library’s 2006 Young Lions Fiction Award. The book won praise from a wide range of publications, including the NYT Book Review
Director Fugunaka was scheduled to direct Stephen King’s It, but dropped out weeks before production. Next up for him is a TV adaptation of Caleb Carr’s The Alienist for TNT. The author recently joined as producer.