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Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by ovi256 on Monday March 04, 2019 @08:18AM (#19300972)
They're already giving their movies a limited theater release to comply with existing Oscar eligibility rules.

What's the exact point where something is more TV than cinema ? Does it have to be earnestly made hoping it's not seen by more people than those in the 10 limited release theaters ? Also, none of the Netflix productions was ever TV broadcast, so why call them TV ?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/business/netflix-theater-...

Re:Spielberg to push for new Oscars rules that exclude strea... by Nasrudith on Monday March 04, 2019 @10:24AM (#19301923)
Really the concrete difference is encapsulation of episodes - while TV may have their own story arcs and continuity they are a bunch of beginnings, middles, and ends. Meanwhile movies are longer continuous blocks. Theoretically you could say take a season and stitch together a movie into a run time but the pacing wouldn't fit. TV is just being used as a snarl word without irony from the same people scoffed at by theater.