The Hateful Eight: Renowned composer reveals opening track

The Oscar-winning filmmaker vented on the Howard Stern show over a slight in which his upcoming western, “The Hateful Eight”, was booted from a planned run at Los Angeles’ Cinerama Dome starting on Christmas Day in favor of keeping “Star Wars” at the iconic theater through the holidays. There’s a few movies coming out around the same time…none of us are any serious competition to Star Wars. But according to Tarantino, Disney threatened to prohibit “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” from playing at any ArcLight cinemas nationwide if their demands were not met regarding the Cinerama Dome. This was under the condition that there would be room to show Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

“A couple of days ago … the Disney distribution people came down to the ArcLight and said, ‘No, you’re going to break your commitment with The Hateful Eight, ” Tarantino’s told EW’s Dalton Ross on his SiriusXM radio show. That meant that films hoping to capitalize on the big-screen format, like The Revenant and In the Heart of the Sea, would get knocked out of those spaces during this period. “We’re talking about one effing theater”, Tarantino said. “They are going out of their way to (expletive) me”. We have a deal with the “Hateful Eight” people, and showing it in 70[mm].

The Cinerama Dome theater is a famed spot in L.A. It’s important for Tarantino; the Cinerama logo even appears in the opening credits of The Hateful Eight.

In a report by Deadline, director Quentin Tarantino was loud and proud to broadcast his own review and what he thinks about the new “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”, particularly Disney. He also pointed out that he has made Disney a lot of money in the past, as some of his movies like ‘Pulp Fiction’ and ‘Kill Bill’ were produced by the Disney owned studio Miramax. Stern, who is friends with both Abrams and Disney CEO Bob Iger, put out a public plea for Disney to back off. We reached out to Disney for comment and have yet to hear back.