Netflix may not be too keen on theatrical releases, but they’re willing to make an exception for Orson Welles.

The streaming service is releasing a new cut of Welles’ unfinished final film The Other Side of the Wind, and they’ve decided to put the film in a few theaters as well.

Netflix and Cannes got into a bit of tussle this year, primarily over the way Netflix handles their film distribution. The way Cannes saw it, Netflix’s insistence on dropping everything online rather than in movie theaters is a big no-no. As the feud heated up, Netflix decided to pull their films from the 2018 Cannes line-up. One of those films was The Other Side of the Wind, the unfinished final film of legendary director Orson Welles. But it looks like Netflix appears to be more than open to screening Other Side of the Wind theatrically after all.

Frank Marshall, who is producing the film, revealed on Twitter that Netflix will indeed screen the film in theaters.

Netflix will bring Orson Welles’ generations-awaited final work to computer and cineplex screens. Wellesnet first reported the theatrical release, revealed in a May 27 tweet from Frank Marshall, production manager during the original shoot (1970-1976). More than 1,000 reels of film negatives languished in a Paris vault until March 2017, when the streaming service acquired the footage, entrusted it to a Marshall-led team of editors, and footed the completion/restoration costs.

A source close to the studio confirmed to IndieWire that “The Other Side of the Wind” will have numerous cinema showings, but details for the rollout are still being planned. Netflix owns global rights to the film.

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The Other Side of the Wind is described as “a satire of Hollywood”, and “focuses on the last days of a legendary film director named Jake Hannaford (played by John Huston), who is struggling to forge his last great comeback as a major filmmaker. Hannaford is hard at work on his final masterpiece, The Other Side of The Wind.” The film was shot in a mockumentary style in both color and black-and-white.

Financial problems plagued the film, and in 1976, Welles said the movie was “96% complete”, and spent years trying to raise funding to finish it once and for all. He never did, and The Other Side of the Wind has remained unfinished for decades. The film features a screenplay by Welles and Oja Kodar, and stars John Huston, Peter Bogdanovich, Oja Kodar, Robert Random, Lilli Palmer, Edmond O’Brien, Cameron Mitchell, Mercedes McCambridge, Susan Strasberg, Norman Foster, Paul Stewart and Dennis Hopper.

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Netflix Will Screen Orson Welles’ Final Film ‘The Other Side of the Wind’ Theatrically