In a recent profile for The New York Times, Dan Lin, the current chairman of Netflix, opened up on the company giving Greta Gerwig’s Narnia film a wide theatrical release, saying the upcoming release was an “exception”, rather than a sign of a change in Netflix’s current primarily streaming-only release strategy.

In discussing this release, Lin explained that the company understands that some filmmakers value wide theatrical releases, and that those are filmmakers Netflix won’t work with. “There is a group of filmmakers who still want theatrical”, Lin explained, “Those are filmmakers that we’ve accepted we just won’t work with.”

These comments come after Netflix announced that Greta Gerwig’s Narnia adaptation will be receiving a wide theatrical release in Febuary 2027. Originally planned for an IMAX-only release Thanksgiving weekend of this year, the film was later delayed to its current February release date. In its place, it was announced that The Adventures of Cliff Booth, David Fincher’s sequel to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood starring Brad Pitt and written by Quentin Tarantino, which was previously set for a theatrical release at some point this year, would take Narnia’s IMAX-only release this coming Thanksgiving weekend.

Greta Gerwig’s Narnia will be released in theaters nationwide on Feb. 12, 2027, followed by a Netflix release on April 2, 2027. The Adventures of Cliff Booth will be released in select IMAX theaters on November 25, followed by a Netflix release on December 23.