The chronicles of Netflix are one of the most expected streaming projects of the next few years and has been doing a conversation for weeks within the industry. The reason for this is that Exclusive IMAX dealwhich was negotiated for the fantasy epic and initially brings the film to over 1000 IMAX screens worldwide for two weeks before appearing in the Netflix program.
This has never been done in the history of the streamer. But what many people celebrate as a win for the cinema apparently makes others pissed off.
Cinema operator: Inside should be angry about Imax deal for the Fantasy new edition of Netflix
As the well-informed scooper Matthew Belloni writes in his industry newsletter Puck, cinema operators in particular encounter the decision of Imax to clear their canvases for a Netflix film, with Herber disappointment. Greta Gerwig’s fantasy epic was scheduled for a start to Thanksgiving 2026, but where the film many other mammoth projects of large studios get in the way.
According to Belloni, an even unsatient animated film from Disney is planned for November 2026. In addition, there is an even unknown Marvel film on November 6th and the new tribute of Panem-Prequel Sunrise on the Reaping on November 20, 2026. All of these films are also intended for an IMAX release-and some canvas are apparently now to cede for competition for a full two weeks,, with which you did not expect beforehand.
At the same time, the cinema operators should not have been informed about the decision by IMAX in advance, which is why the U.S. Gross chains would think about it, according to Puck, according to Puck, Narnia not to be shown entirely in their imax halls.
Imax and Netflix should prepare the Narnia future with 8 films
Imax boss Rich Geldorf recently announced that Netflix whole Eight Narnia films Plan. That would be more a film than there are novels by CS Lewis-but the film history has taught us, especially in the past decades and within the fantasy genre, that many stories for the cinema are loved in two or even several parts.
He told Deadline that Evalorf already sets the course for a future for Netflix’s Narnia films on all IMAX screens, he told Deadline:
This is a really great film for us, because I think eight films are planned … and what IMAX can do best, is to start franchises and events And that is exactly the type of film that is beneficial to an imax release.
The first Narnia film is supposed to November 26, 2026 Start in the Imax cinemas. Just in time for Christmas of the same year, Greta Gerwig’s fantasy epic is to move into the streaming program at Netflix.