Bleecker Street explains why Musk left theaters so quickly

After a weekend of conspiracy theorizing over the hobbled theatrical rollout of Musk, Alex Gibney’s four-hour-long documentary about the first man to give a Nazi salute at a presidential inauguration, the film’s distributor, Bleecker Street, has offered an explanation: They’re sending it to streaming earlier than anticipated. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Bleecker Street shifted rollout strategies and moved up the film’s VOD release date after its disappointing nationwide expansion. The hefty film about one of the world’s most overexposed divorcés expanded opposite another tech-CEO-focused doc that went north of two-and-a-half hours, You Can See Everything. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary shattered box-office expectations but didn’t leave audiences much time to check out another lengthy movie that weekend. Musk played on 60 screens last weekend, down from 472 the week before, and it will continue to play in select theaters for the rest of its theatrical window. Originally set to land on VOD on November 24, Bleecker Street moved the date to November 6.