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- Netflix will publicly report box office grosses for six upcoming theatrical titles: La Bola Negra, David Fincher's The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, Peter Berg's Mosquito Bowl, Danny Boyle's Ink, Greta Gerwig's Narnia: The Magician's Nephew, and animated Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
- Theatrical windows on those six films range from 26 days (Mosquito Bowl) to 50 days (Narnia) — all well below the 90-120 day standard window used by major studios.
- Netflix's August 2025 K-Pop Demon Hunters Singalong became the streamer's first No. 1 weekend box office movie, but the company did not officially report the gross — industry sources estimated a 2-day take of $19M, with all circuits except AMC playing it.
- Top exhibitors AMC, Regal, and Cinemark refused to carry last November's Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man on a 17-day window, resulting in just $4M in grosses.
- Netflix and AMC began "getting cozy" late last year, with AMC eventually playing K-Pop Demon Hunters over Halloween and the Stranger Things series finale — the latter generating over $25M in theater revenue through concession-voucher reservations.
- Netflix Film Chairman Dan Lin told reporters to "give us some time" on theatrical strategy, while CCO Bela Bajaria stressed Netflix remains a "streaming-first company" in a "different business" than Warner Bros theatrical distribution.
Why it matters: The reporting shift is a calculated olive branch to exhibitors and filmmakers after Netflix's failed Warner Bros acquisition — but with 26-50 day windows still far shorter than the 90-120 day studio standard, Netflix is signaling cooperation with theatrical without abandoning its streaming-first identity. Exhibitors gain transparency and a more cooperative partner, while Netflix protects short windows that keep subscribers from waiting.
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