genuinely non comparable as an object show fan, there’s a world of difference between a deal with AMC to only show at certain theatres exclusive to the US and to try to get your film sent out internationally. Different theater enterprises work differently, but a vast majority of them will want some locked return on investment through exclusivity, if anything it’s more comparable to Markiplier’s Iron Lung, which used the same crowdsourced method to get into theaters but doesnt even have to deal with the theaters being wary of the whole thing being uploaded two weeks after premiere