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 "The Aeronauts" reunites Felicity Jones and Oscar-winner Eddie
Redmayne as pilot Amelia Wren and real-life scientist James
Glaisher in their hot-air balloon expedition to reach unrivaled
heights.
"The Aeronauts" will have a mere two-week run in theaters
starting Dec. 6, before launching on Amazon Prime Video, a shift
from an earlier plan to debut the film exclusively in IMAX
Corporation theaters for a week before a Nov. 1 theatrical
release.
"It's all changed, isn't it," Redmayne said to Reuters on the
red carpet on Sunday, saying that streaming services like Amazon
give access to people who do not live near cinemas or cannot get
to them.
"But obviously, I still love the experience of sitting in a dark
room with other people and being bombarded with stories that you
experience as a community," he said. "So I hope there's room for
both."
For the first time, Cineplex Entertainment's 14-screen
Scotiabank Theatre, one of the festival venues, is not screening
any of Netflix's eight productions or Amazon Studios' seven
films.
The theater is the venue for most of the festival's press and
industry screenings. The two streaming services' press and
industry screenings are held at the TIFF Bell Lightbox location,
a spokeswoman for the festival told Reuters.
Cineplex prefers to screen movies from studios "who understand
and appreciate the importance of the theatrical release model,"
a Cineplex spokeswoman said in an emailed statement.
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Netflix pulled out of May's Cannes Film Festival after organizers
banned its films from competition for its refusal to release them in
cinemas.
"I've made so many films that they just don't get seen that it's so
lovely to be making something that you know it's so easy to access
and people all over the world will be able to see it," Jones said on
the red carpet.
"The Aeronauts" story is based on a Sept. 5, 1862, hot-air balloon
expedition by Glaisher and balloonist Henry Coxwell which broke the
world record for flight altitude.
Redmayne and Jones co-starred in "The Theory of Everything," for
which Redmayne won an Oscar for his portrayal of physicist Stephen
Hawking. Jones, who played Hawking's ex-wife Jane, was nominated for
an Oscar.
"We're old friends," Jones said. "I think we really push each other.
We probably drive each other crazy. We're both meticulous and detail
oriented and we don't stop until we feel that we've done something
special."
(Reporting by Nichola Saminather; Editing by Howard Goller)
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