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Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group Chairman and CEO, Tom Rothman on the Golden Globes red carpet, gave props to the congloms circling Warner Bros \u2013Netflix and Paramount\u2013 saying that \u201cwhat I\u2019m gratified to hear is that all of the parties involved have indicated they understand the value of the theatrical window.\u201d<\/p>\n
There\u2019s been a lot of fear in town: How can Paramount possibly release 30 films a year if it owns Warners?<\/p>\n
Netflix, which has had success theatrically with its late August weekend release of Sony Animation\u2019s KPop Demon Hunters <\/em>and the series finale of Stranger Things <\/em>has waffled in their messaging on theatrical. Soon after the $19M No. 1 weekend for Kpop Demon Hunters, <\/em>Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said during a fall earnings call that the streamer was about first-run movies on the service. He\u2019s since changed his tune during the streamer\u2019s accepted bid for Warner Bros exclaiming that he\u2019ll respect a traditional theatrical window, particularly for those films already contracted as such by the current WB regime.<\/p>\n More from Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n Rothman, whose Sony is known as an arms dealer in selling content to competitors since they don\u2019t have an OTT service, also beamed that amid the merger noise, \u201cour business is pretty healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n So, Mr. Rothman, you wouldn\u2019t be adverse to seeing Warner Bros going to Netflix?<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not going to comment on that because I love all my children and we\u2019re great partners with all involved,\u201d said Rothman whose Sony has a pay one deal currently with Netflix.<\/p>\n In regards to whether Rothman saw the success of Kpop Demon Hunters <\/em>coming (the pic counts over 324M views on Netflix, the most watched movie ever on the service), the Sony studio boss said, \u201canyone who tells you they new \u2014 well, that\u2019s really a bit of a fib.\u201d<\/p>\n Best of Deadline<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Deadline’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group Chairman and CEO, Tom Rothman on the Golden Globes red carpet, gave props to the congloms circling Warner Bros \u2013Netflix and Paramount\u2013 saying that \u201cwhat I\u2019m gratified to hear is that all of the parties involved have indicated they understand the value of the theatrical window.\u201d There\u2019s been a lot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2231047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[23191,364791,409651,306876],"class_list":["post-2231046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-netflix","tag-sony-animation","tag-tom-rothman","tag-warner-bros"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/They-Understand-The-Value-Of-The-Theatrical-Window.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2231048,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231046\/revisions\/2231048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2231047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}