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Why ‘The Sopranos’ Creator Is NOT Happy With HBO Right Now · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood. The upcoming Sopranos prequel movie The Many
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Speaker 1: Saints of Newark might be based on the long running
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Speaker 1: hit HBO TV show. The creator David Chase, who's behind
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Speaker 1: both projects, is far from happy that HBO has decided
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Speaker 1: to premiere it on TV the same day it hits theaters, because,
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Speaker 1: in his mind, the fact that it started as a
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Speaker 1: TV show gives it a disadvantage. He tells Deadline, Frankly,
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Speaker 1: I don't think I would have taken the job if
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Speaker 1: I knew it was going to be a day and
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Speaker 1: date release. The executives say, there's seventeen movies that have
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Speaker 1: the same problem. What could we do during COVID? I
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Speaker 1: get it, but those sixteen other movies didn't start out
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Speaker 1: as a TV show. They don't have to shed that
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Speaker 1: television image before you get people to the theater, but
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Speaker 1: we do. People should go see it in the theater.
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Speaker 1: It was designed to be a movie. The Many Saints
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Speaker 1: of Newark arrives next month. That's direct from Hollywood.