The Future. Last year, two movies were re-edited and re-released as high-profile streaming series, blurring the line between the two formats. If more filmmakers take on similar experiments, under-the-radar indies and box office bombs could get second chances at becoming hits on the small screen… and give streamers a cheap way to license “new” titles.
Runtime marathonYounger audiences are more likely to binge hours of a show than watch a long movie… so some films are adapting.
Faraway Downs is actually a re-edited and expanded version of Baz Luhrmann’s 2008 epic, Australia. It premiered as a six-part series on Hulu.
BlackBerry, directed by Matt Johnson, premiered as a film early last year and then was cut up and expanded into a three-part series on AMC in the US six months later.
These titles aren’t the first to re-release as series (Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage did it back in 1973), but this may be the first time that they were done with such radical ambitions.
Luhrmann took the footage he shot and constructed a “significant” new plot for the series.
Johnson and his team always planned for the dual release to create two separate revenue streams.
And, yes, the original movies are still widely available to watch. Could this be a new lane in the streaming economy?
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