At Edinburgh got career defining reviews, won the Michael Powell award, and lots of attention. We wanted to offer some protection for the filmmaker before the film potentially disappeared into the platform. “The festival premiere was really important.
Robey said the filmmakers “agonised” over the Netflix decision but ultimately one of the key selling points was its ability to negotiate a short window prior to the VoD release to have a festival premiere for the film at Edinburgh in 2018. After viewing the completed film at a later festival, Netflix returned with a “substantially better offer”.
Netflix had made an initial offer on Calibre to sales agent Beta Cinema after viewing a promo, but Robey said Beta were confident in the film and decided to turn that down. “When we started to make it, we saw those possibilities were receding, and indie thrillers were doing less and less well in cinemas.” We thought there was a good chance it could be quite a commercial film and could possibly play multiplexes,” said Robey, who has an executive producer credit on the film. “We intended for Calibre to be a cinema release. UK producer Rachel Robey from Wellington Films, the company behind Matt Palmer’s Scottish thriller Calibre, which was released globally by Netflix last year, highlighted the film had been made for a theatrical audience. While a Netflix deal can be lucrative, the online streaming service is not always the right fit for independent films, suggested a Glasgow panel on Thursday (Jan 28).
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