Daniel Craig hopes subsequent Knives Out will get an extended theatrical launch

Daniel Craig is hoping Benoit Blanc followers have a bit extra time to get up and get themselves to a theater to see Wake Up Lifeless Man: A Knives Out Thriller than they did with 2022’s Glass Onion. “You already know I do,” the James Bond veteran answered when Selection requested if he hoped the upcoming Knives Out installment would get an extended theatrical window than its predecessor. The Netflix launch considerably infamously solely performed in theaters for a single week.

“Hopefully, Netflix will push it out a bit, and folks will get to see it,” he continued. “The folks I converse to—the followers, I suppose—all they need to do is take their households and go see it on the cinemas. That’s all they need to do. Hopefully we may give them that have.”

In keeping with Selection, Glass Onion‘s launch—regardless of the restricted window—was and remains to be a little bit of an anomaly for the streamer. It was the primary Netflix movie to ever play at AMC and Regal places, and, with the 600 theaters that screened it, stays the widest launch the streamer has accomplished so far. Nonetheless, that’s nothing in comparison with the collection’ authentic Lionsgate outing in 2019, which turned a word-of-mouth hit on the field workplace to the tune of $312 million globally. Glass Onion introduced in $13 million domestically throughout its weeklong run, and didn’t display screen in different territories.

With these numbers in thoughts, it is smart that Craig can be greater than just a little peeved about Netflix’s mannequin. In keeping with Matthew Belloni of Puck Information, this isn’t the primary time he’s publicly expressed his disappointment both. Apparently, the star had some alternative phrases for Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos after Glass Onion obtained a prolonged ovation following its Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition premiere in 2022. Reportedly, Craig pointed to the ovation as proof that the movie ought to get an extended theatrical window, to which Sarandos responded with a model of his tried and true “not our mannequin” mantra. To this, Craig apparently responded with “a variation on ‘Your mannequin is fucked.’” 

As of this writing, no official premiere date or launch technique for Wake Up Lifeless Man has been introduced. The Rian Johnson-directed movie, which is predicted someday in 2025, additionally stars Josh O’Connor, Cailee Spaeny, Andrew Scott, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Thomas Haden Church, Glenn Shut, Daryl McCormack, Kerry Washington, and Josh Brolin.