According to company executives, Facebook’s first-ever movie premiere will debut as a ticketed event on Facebook Live. The premiere will feature “The Outside,” a controversial documentary that explores the creation of the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum in New York City.
The movie will be live-streamed exclusively on Facebook for about R57 on August 19 and will be available to users in over 100 countries.
In June, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that content creator features such as live events will remain free until 2023, adding that “when we do introduce a revenue share, it will be less than the 30% that Apple and others take.”
Museum officials have called some parts of the documentary “defamatory,” while the directors have said that the museum “censors and controls” reporting regarding the museum.
Michael Shulan, the film’s main character and former creative director of the museum, has reportedly said that the museum created a “Disneyfication” of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Lee Cochran, who is a spokesperson for the museum, said that “the film looks at the museum through a very specific ideological lens which we do not share.” However, several relatives of people who died on September 11, 2001 have voiced their support for the documentary.
Sources: Business Insider
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