Tom Hanks now says 'Greyhound' film was 'rescued at sea' by Apple TV+
Following an interview critical of the service on Monday, Tom Hanks has clarified some of his feelings about the release of "Greyhound" on Apple TV+.
Credit: Apple TV+
Hanks previously told The Guardian that the "Greyhound" release on Apple TV instead of in cinemas was an "absolute heartbreak," largely due to the differences in picture and sound quality.
In a televised interview on NBC's "Today" show on Tuesday morning, Hanks has added some additional clarifications about "Greyhound" on Apple TV. He said that he's "actually thrilled that Apple TV+ is making it possible for everyone to see it."
Hanks went on to call theater closures due to the coronavirus health crisis "heartbreaking," and added that Apple "saved the day for us" by allowing anyone with an Apple TV+ subscription to watch the film.
"Barring that, Apple has saved the day for us," Hanks added. "We had a magnificent movie that was not going to be seen. Apple is a benevolent streaming service in every way."
The actor and filmmaker went on to call the partnership with Apple TV+ a "magnificent deal."
"We are going to be able to fill up the screens in the living rooms and the bean-bag chairs of the world all in one fall shot, so we feel as though we were rescued at sea by a convoy with a big Apple logo with a bite taken out of it," Hanks said.
A full transcript of Hanks' comments on The Today Show can be seen below.
The film will make its debut exclusively on Apple TV+ on Friday, July 10.
Credit: Apple TV+
Hanks previously told The Guardian that the "Greyhound" release on Apple TV instead of in cinemas was an "absolute heartbreak," largely due to the differences in picture and sound quality.
In a televised interview on NBC's "Today" show on Tuesday morning, Hanks has added some additional clarifications about "Greyhound" on Apple TV. He said that he's "actually thrilled that Apple TV+ is making it possible for everyone to see it."
Hanks went on to call theater closures due to the coronavirus health crisis "heartbreaking," and added that Apple "saved the day for us" by allowing anyone with an Apple TV+ subscription to watch the film.
"Barring that, Apple has saved the day for us," Hanks added. "We had a magnificent movie that was not going to be seen. Apple is a benevolent streaming service in every way."
The actor and filmmaker went on to call the partnership with Apple TV+ a "magnificent deal."
"We are going to be able to fill up the screens in the living rooms and the bean-bag chairs of the world all in one fall shot, so we feel as though we were rescued at sea by a convoy with a big Apple logo with a bite taken out of it," Hanks said.
A full transcript of Hanks' comments on The Today Show can be seen below.
Apple acquired "Greyhound," a WWII film focused on allied naval forces during the Battle of the Atlantic, to the tune of $70 million in May.I'm actually thrilled that Apple TV+ is making it possible for everybody to see it This is a magnificent gift that's come to us because of Apple because COVID-19 did something heartbreaking to us all: it closed down the theaters. We don't have the cinema. There isn't anybody that doesn't like going to see a good movie with 800 people and coming out with something in common. Barring that, Apple has saved the day for us. We had a magnificent movie that was not going to be seen. Apple is a benevolent streaming service in every way. It's going to look fantastic but it's going to be available. It is going to be viewable, and otherwise we would've languished in a vault for a movie that is 88 minutes of a thematic story that does speak to what we're all going through right now. We didn't know that at the time we made the film, we were just trying to make a lean, new spare version about procedures and behaviors about how difficult it was to stay alive in the North Atlantic in 1942. It's a magnificent deal and we are going to be able to fill up the screens in the living rooms and the bean-bag chairs of the world all in one fall shot, so we feel as though we were rescued at sea by a convoy with a big Apple logo with a bite taken out of it.
The film will make its debut exclusively on Apple TV+ on Friday, July 10.
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About the white wall behind him. Does he not know how nutty the media is about Apple? Just a shadow of controversy/racism/homophobia/anything in his home would send the media into an anti-Apple blitz and stocks plunging.
Perhaps once a vaccine emerges to set us on a path to recovery, this will create an opportunity for lower-budget and independent films to fill an early gap, by virtue of being able to get from take one, scene one to general theatrical release much more quickly.
They overpaid probably due to a bidding war. A movie that has no theatrical distribution should never be in that price range.
Read all the details yourself:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/29/fauci-us-unlikely-achieve-herd-immunity-coronavirus-even-with-vaccine
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/06/dr-fauci-says-coronavirus-immunity-may-be-finite-duration-remains-uncertain.html
What industry experience or revenue data are you basing that claim on? Oh yeah, none. Any other declarations about industries you don't work in you'd like to share with us, just because?
It's something Hanky-Panky learned the hard way after his comments were portrayed as a full anti-Apple assault. I bet his white wall gripe seems absurd now.
Hanky-panky.
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/tom-hanks-first-live-interview-coronavirus-recovery-says-doing-one-n1233050
The original interview didn't come across to me as having a go at Apple but more that his passion project was sold off to the highest bidder by Sony and Apple just happened to be that bidder. He would have said the same if it was Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, etc.
The same Guardian reporter for the previous interview also took a jab at Apple about the "stupid keyboard" that gave her back pain:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/22/didnt-love-taika-waititi-movie-feel-his-pain
'Journalists' like her are the kind that are always trying to stir the pot. They don't just want to report things, they want to make drama because the news business is all about attention-seeking. Usually they ask leading questions to get the responses they want. If they don't get eyes on the reports, there's little point in having them. It's like movie and TV ratings. If no one is watching, they don't make money from advertisers so they get canned.
Tom Hanks is also part of the generation of old cinema where streaming is a relatively new method of distribution and is like Neil Young with his Pono player for audio. They have their preferred ways of presenting their work but new generations are growing up enjoying movies the new way and have access to more movies than ever at the touch of a button. That ease of distribution has made film-making and distribution much more accessible but with that comes a larger amount of low quality productions so these kind of movies will stand out and people will appreciate that.