“Napoleon” will be released in theaters in November 2024, before being available on the Apple platform that produced it.
The film Napoleon by British director Ridley Scott, produced by Apple for its streaming platform, was warmly welcomed at the opening of the CinemaCon festival in Las Vegas, high mass for the bosses of American cinemas.
This feature film combining epic and historical narrative, with American Oscar-winning comedian Joaquin Phoenix in the role of Napoleon Bonaparte, was the star of the opening night of the festival on the evening of Monday April 25 during which a sequence of the film was been presented.
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Sony Pictures studios are partners with Apple to distribute the film to cinemas, which is due to be released in theaters in November in the United States. In France, it is announced for November 22. The feature film looks back on the ascent “quick and ruthless to emperorship” of Napoleon, can we read on the French site of Apple, through “the prism of (her) explosive and addictive relationship with his wife and his great love Josephine”played by Vanessa Kirby.
A battle scene, in which French forces under Napoleon ambushed an enemy army on a frozen lake, was loudly applauded by cinema owners. “Old-fashioned big screen” commented the president of Sony Pictures, Tom Rothman. “The term of ‘epic‘ is the first that comes to mind when it comes to describing this film” from production company Apple Original Films, he added, praising a streaming platform that wouldn’t have had a place at CinemaCon some time ago.
Platforms are now betting on cinemas
The CinemaCon festival, which brings together Hollywood studio bosses and movie theater owners and managers, along with world-famous stars, traditionally touts the magic of “big screen” by throwing spikes at streaming platforms. A recent study, however, shows that Apple plans to spend a billion dollars a year on films that will first be shown in theaters before being made available to the public via the streaming platform, Apple TV+. Excellent news for cinemas, weakened by the Covid-19 pandemic.
This year, Martin Scorsese’s film Killers of the Flower Moon, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro and which was produced by Apple, will be screened in theaters thanks to Paramount, while its rival Amazon has recently been released in cinemas Air by Ben Affleck. Industry experts believe that the media coverage of these theatrical releases will increase the reputation of the two companies, as well as of their streaming platforms, Apple TV+ and Amazon Prime Video.