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Headline: Doug Liman to boycott Road House premiere in protest against its streaming release
Caption: The Mr. & Mrs. Smith filmmaker believes his feature, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, should be released in cinemas instead of Prime Video and he intends to prove his point by skipping the movie's premiere at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival on 8 March. In a guest column for Deadline, Liman explained that he signed up to direct a theatrical film for MGM before the studio was acquired by Amazon and he therefore made his film "for the big screen". "When Road House opens the SXSW film festival, I won't be attending...
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