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With a duration of 3 hours and 26 minutes, it was inevitable that a debate would arise around The Moon Killers – 94%, Martin Scorsese’s new film that has received good comments for its proposal, but has also caused discomfort and even ridicule due to the time that this filmmaker’s story takes on the screen. There are people who believe that this amount of time in a movie theater without a break is crazy, since the film does not have an intermission, while others defend the work of the director and his team by arguing that this is how it should be. see.

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This has not prevented third parties from making decisions unrelated to the work that Scorsese has completed. The film starring Lily Gladstone, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro has been manipulated by several cinemas since they have found a way to place a break of several minutes so that the audience can, we assume, do whatever they have to do in the middle. from a movie. A small number of cinemas, mostly independent, began to implement a interruption that has now been adopted by others of greater international recognition.

Variety found that this intermission is being applied in different ways: some cinemas take 6 minutes and others advertise up to 15 minutes. He announced that until the morning of Friday the 26th, two cinema chains in Europe and an independent cinema located in Amsterdam were selling tickets for The Moon Killers with the announcement that there would be a break at some point in the screening of the feature film. The same medium also confirms that a chain with a presence in Germany, Italy, Portugal and Brazil, called UCI Cinemas, would have in almost all its theaters, with the exception of its IMAX screens in three locations, an interval of 6 minutes for the screenings of the films. new from Scorsese.

This measure was expanded to the United Kingdom through the The Vue cinema chain, mentioning that there they have also included an interruption without specifying how many minutes. In the United States, the country of origin of the production, it is also happening: The Lyric cinema, located in Fort Collins, Colorado had a screening on October 26 in which there was a pause. However, Variety reports that this business had problems with the film’s distributor (Paramount Pictures) and the production company Apple Original Films, so it backtracked on its decision to interrupt the exhibition.

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It is unknown if cinemas believe this measure will not have consequences given the number of businesses that are implementing an intermission in The Moon Killersbut their actions are not going unnoticed and companies are contacting theaters that have violated their contract since they must show the film the way it was made, without alterations beyond those who worked on the project.

Martin Scorsese He has not commented on the matter, but he already said in an interview for Hindustan Times that it doesn’t make much sense for people to complain about a 3 and a half hour movie when they are capable of watching a television for 5 hours. The director is not wrong, since on many occasions there are people who even plan their day to get up at the exact time a season of a television show appears, even in the early morning, to be the first to watch the episodes. It is also very common for something similar to be done on weekends, plus if a franchise makes a longer film in the end there has never been a problem nor have cinemas tried to divide its story into two parts.

The one who has manifested himself is Thelma Schoonmakereditor of The Moon Killers who has won the Oscar three times and has collaborated with Scorsese for more than 50 years. She said this to The Standard:

I understand that someone is running it with an intermission that is not right. That’s rape, so I have to find out.

Box office analysts agree with Scorsese and say that if that is the original intention for his film it should be respected and given to the public as the main way to see his work, but also that the film is long and if that modified version can help a person deciding to buy a ticket would be worth considering. This is what he said Shawn Robbinsthe chief analyst of Boxoffice Pro:

If Scorsese didn’t intend for there to be an intermission, I think that should at least be the main way people can watch it. That being said, it was a long movie. And I think if there’s enough demand, and especially if it makes a difference in helping someone make the decision to go buy a ticket, as opposed to not going to see the movie, then maybe there’s an economic and practical argument to at least a limited option.

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