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Netflix's main bet to make noise at the Oscars will not have the great premiere that many expected. The streaming giant announced on Tuesday that Martin Scorsese's film, The Irish, will have a short tour, about three weeks, in some indie halls in the US after not having reached an agreement with the big exhibition chains such as AMC and Cineplex

Thus, Scorsese's last film exercise will be released on November 1 in cinemas with less audience pull and will come to Netflix on November 27. A month earlier he will have his premiere at the New York film festival. Although he may participate in the awards season, the film runs out of the great premiere that could guarantee departing on equal terms with respect to other titles.

After the announcement - and unless there is an unexpected turn at the last minute -, the Irish will run along a path similar to that of Rome , the masterpiece of Alfonso Cuarón, which also premiered in a modest number of movie theaters and that In spite of this, he ended up taking three Oscars from the Hollywood Academy of the 10 nominations he started with.

The fact that it failed in the last and most important, the best film that conquered the inferior Green Book, was interpreted by some experts as a punishment for not having had the traditional 90-day film tour that the others had in competition . Hence, Netflix executives got to work to try to give The Irish that massive premiere.

It is not also any movie. This is the meeting of Scorsese with some of the most important actors in his filmography such as Robert de Niro and Joe Pesci, as well as having Al Pacino for the first time and another interpreter devoted to gangster film arts, Harvey Keitel. The script, much eye, is the brilliant Steven Zaillian, responsible, among others, for Schindler's list.

It is also one of the most expensive productions in Scorsese's career, $ 180 million for a director accustomed to giving very good box office results - The Wolf of Wall Street raised $ 400 million worldwide. Hence, the New Yorker has put all the possible pressure for the film to be released on a chain like AMC, with 2,200 movie theaters across the country and 11,000 worldwide.

Netflix was not willing to grant those three months asking for those chains and the agreement was derailed, which will surely affect the final collection of the film and increases the risk of it becoming a box office hit.

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