Netflix will give Roma a three-week cinema run (beginning in the US on 21 November) before it starts streaming on 14 December.
In a significant change of strategy, Netflix is to release its awards-hopeful films in cinemas before launching them on its streaming service.
Netflix has previously resisted premiering its films in cinemas, preferring to release them either simultaneously in theatres and online, or dispensing with big-screen release altogether.
According to Deadline, over the next two months Netflix is planning to release Roma, Alfonso Cuarón’s Mexico-set family drama, the Coen brothers’ western The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and Bird Box, the Sandra Bullock-starring horror directed by Susanne Bier.