We continue to offer a free 2-week trial of WrapPRO. If you’ve been wanting to check out our full coverage, now’s the time.Greetings!Netflix has long eschewed the theatrical experience, prioritizing its streaming service as the first place for its television shows and films, leading to a frosty relationship with the theater industry. But as our Adam Chitwood and Umberto Gonzalez write, Netflix may be warming to the idea of having more of a theatrical presence. The megahit “KPop Demon Hunters” was released in theaters a second time over the Halloween weekend stretch after scoring Netflix’s first-ever No. 1 box office weekend with $19 million in August. Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” just hit the streamer after a three-week theatrical window in 400 theaters. And Matt and Ross Duffers’ “Stranger Things” will have its series finale in theaters as a New Year’s Eve event. Netflix already has a talent problem, with Gonzalez breaking last week that the streamer's efforts to get Zach Cregger, hot off of "Weapons," to make his next film, "The Flood," hit a snag when co-CEO Ted Sarandos nixed the theatrical component. Other directors have also left to other services after briefly working with Netflix. With Netflix potentially bidding for Warner Bros. studios, how long can it afford to ignore the theatrical experience? Roger Cheng 
Netflix's big problem with theaters is the requirement to have a set "window" in which a film is exclusively on the big screen... 
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