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Film ‘Nutcrackers’ Director David Gordon Green On Applying Blumhouse Model To Comedy & How To Make Moviegoing Better

After years steeping himself in horror between an ‘Exorcist’ film and a ‘Halloween’ trilogy, the filmmaker’s latest hits Hulu on Friday. The unconventional family holiday pic starring Ben Stiller that opened TIFF marks a return to Green’s humanist roots and his first feature in the space in almost a decade. He contemplates how Blumhouse’s success in empire building might be applied to the comedy genre and what a renaissance in movie theaters might look like.

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