Academy members call out obsolete dingbat Steven Spielberg on his Netflix hate

[masterofmystery]

“As much as I respect Steven and revere him as a filmmaker, he’s not reading the tea leaves. That ship has sailed," said Stu Zakim, an Academy member and veteran publicist who worked on previous Spielberg releases https://t.co/IcQaAgndHU
- Variety (@Variety) March 6, 2019

Continuing the saga of Steven Spielberg vs. the 21st century, Academy members

Comments

[sandstorm]

Old man yells at movies in the cloud.

I'm glad that some Academy members want to change with the times.

[booksforlunch]

Just want to tell you how much I appreciate the "movies in the cloud" joke.

[seishin]

Same. Well played.

re: Old man yells at movies in the cloud.

[nikuru]

[ferelden]

get with the times grandpa.

[trumpydoesmagic]

Who is this?

[ferelden]

Béatrice Martin/Cœur de Pirate!

[rawr_santi]

charlie hunnam is a part of the academy? what..

[winterbam]

That's all I saw reading this post lol.

[lexy_]

lol I raised my eyebrows at that too, but he's in a Netflix film and said that at the premiere of Triple Frontier

[masterofmystery]

he might be for all i know. there are some random as fuck people as members

[frejasface]

Most directors don't have control over who buys their movies or how they are distributed.

[meganlynn09]

Is he making a distinction between actual Netflix made movies and movies they buy/distribute (like Roma)?

Or does he not care?

[masterofmystery]

he doesn't care and means both

[meganlynn09]

*sigh* That's what I thought. Shitty reading of the room, Steven.

[yeezy]

he means both, but even if he only meant movies produced by netflix it's still dumb, they paid for martin scorsese's 125 mill budget so to call it "only emmy" worth it is ridic lol