{"id":1543,"date":"2016-01-24T20:51:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T12:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/24\/look-out-sundance-amazon-and-netflix-have-made-their-grand-entrance\/"},"modified":"2016-01-24T20:51:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T12:51:31","slug":"look-out-sundance-amazon-and-netflix-have-made-their-grand-entrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/24\/look-out-sundance-amazon-and-netflix-have-made-their-grand-entrance\/","title":{"rendered":"Look out, Sundance: Amazon and Netflix have made their grand entrance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Amazon.sundance\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAxLzI0L2I5L2FtYXpvbi5zdW5kLmI2NDUyLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/1316abfb\/07d\/amazon.sundance.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Look+out%2C+Sundance%3A+Amazon+and+Netflix+have+made+their+grand+entrance&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F24%2Famazon-will-partner-with-roadside-attractions-to-release-love-friendship%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F01%2F24%2Famazon-will-partner-with-roadside-attractions-to-release-love-friendship%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Amazon and Netflix are off the Sundance schneid.<\/p>\n<p>The streaming networks \u2014 both shut out from acquiring movies at at Sundance last year, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/01\/29\/amazon-netflix-sundance\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">despite major efforts to do so<\/a> \u2014 have each picked up and debuted big titles at the ongoing fest. And neither waited for the post-premiere late-night bidding wars to do it.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/22\/sundance-2016-most-anticipated-movies\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Sundance 2016: The &#8216;most anticipated&#8217; movies of top film bloggers<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Amazon Studios partnered with Roadside Attractions to acquire <em>Love &amp; Friendship<\/em> earlier this week, ahead of its Sundance debut on Saturday night. It&#8217;s the second partnership between the distributors that put Amazon&#8217;s first feature, Spike Lee&#8217;s <em>Chi-Raq<\/em>, in U.S. theaters and on Prime last year. (It was also the second pre-fest buy for Amazon, which picked up the Rachel Weisz drama <em>Complete Unknown<\/em>, which premieres Monday). <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/24\/amazon-will-partner-with-roadside-attractions-to-release-love-friendship\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/netflix\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Netflix<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/movies\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Movies<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/amazon-studios\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Amazon Studios<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/sundance-film-festival\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Sundance Film Festival<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/entertainment\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Entertainment<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/O0Oj87i05gQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon and Netflix are off the Sundance schneid. The streaming networks \u2014 both shut out from acquiring movies at at Sundance last year, despite major efforts to do so \u2014 have each picked up and debuted big titles at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/24\/look-out-sundance-amazon-and-netflix-have-made-their-grand-entrance\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1208,739,765,764,1209],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-amazon-studios","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-netflix","tag-sundance-film-festival"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}