{"id":2167106,"date":"2025-11-19T19:26:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2167106"},"modified":"2025-11-19T19:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:26:17","slug":"steven-spielberg-says-he-is-fighting-the-tides-to-keep-movies-like-hamnet-in-theaters-so-its-not-just-blockbuster-films-on-the-big-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/steven-spielberg-says-he-is-fighting-the-tides-to-keep-movies-like-hamnet-in-theaters-so-its-not-just-blockbuster-films-on-the-big-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Spielberg Says He Is \u201cFighting the Tides\u201d to Keep Movies Like \u2018Hamnet\u2019 in Theaters So It\u2019s \u201cNot Just Blockbuster\u201d Films on the Big Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2125482\/\">Chlo\u00e9 Zhao<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm2976580\/\">Jessie Buckley<\/a> brought their awards season standout <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14905854\/\">Hamnet<\/a> to Los Angeles on Tuesday night, along with some help from producer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000229\/\">Steven Spielberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The film is based on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm9133641\/\">Maggie O\u2019Farrell<\/a>\u2019s 2020 novel and tells the story of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000636\/\">William Shakespeare<\/a> (played by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm8958770\/\">Paul Mescal<\/a>) and his wife Agnes (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm10481357\/\">Buckley<\/a>) as their son Hamnet dies at a young age, inspiring Shakespeare to write <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0116477\/\">Hamlet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the premiere screening at the Academy Museum, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm9522165\/\">Spielberg<\/a> told the crowd, \u201cDirectors are always searching for stories to tell, but sometimes the story tells us which director it wants to belong to. Chlo\u00e9 Zhao was the director that Maggie O\u2019Farrell\u2019s book <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14905854\/\">Hamnet<\/a> found its way to and there was no other choice that could have possibly been made in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He pointed at the theater\u2019s screen, noting that these are \u201cthe kinds of screens that we are fighting the tides&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chlo\u00e9 Zhao and Jessie Buckley brought their awards season standout Hamnet to Los Angeles on Tuesday night, along with some help from producer Steven Spielberg. 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