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The Oscar Nominations Hangover and the Top 10 Movies at Sundance

The Big Picture

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Is There a Problem With Theatrical Censorship

On streaming, you get these massive mainstream Emmy award winning shows like The Boys or Game of Thrones, they're full of imagery that would be NC 17 in a theatrical context. And everybody's fine with it. That's where we're at with art right now. People are not upset by that kind of imagery or enough people are not upset that it can exist in these huge budget mainstream shows. But the fact that there's a sort of essentially de facto censorship that happens only in the theatrical context and not in the streaming context is something they should be worried about.

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