“I think broadly, it was just that the places that normally buy movies had a hard time seeing its potential as a mainstream crowd-pleaser,” Blair told Polygon via Zoom. “People were a little gun-shy, which is a little nerve-wracking. But in hindsight, I'm very grateful for the delay, because it allowed Cineverse to get into position to take it over. And they really did see the potential for it to be a crowd-pleaser, so that's how they're trying to release it — not just dumping it onto a [streaming] platform, but really trying to get it out there [in theaters].”

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