Quentin Tarantino claims Disney pushed 'The Hateful Eight' out of the Cinerama Dome

Director Quentin Tarantino speaks at the press conference for "The Hateful Eight" at Waldorf Astoria Hotel on December 14, 2015 in New York City.

Director Quentin Tarantino speaks at the press conference for "The Hateful Eight" at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel on December 14 in New York City.

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Quentin Tarantino attends the European Premiere of "The Hateful Eight" at Odeon Leicester Square on December 10, 2015 in London, England.

Quentin Tarantino attends the European premiere of "The Hateful Eight" at Odeon Leicester Square on December 10 in London.

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Screenings of “The Hateful Eight” were supposed to start at the iconic theater on Christmas Eve, but Tarantino says his film has been bumped from the venue because of “Star Wars.”

“Star Wars” is getting almost universally positive reviews. But there’s at least one prominent Hollywood figure who is very unhappy about the release of “The Force Awakens.”

Quentin Tarantino shot his new movie, “The Hateful Eight,” on Ultra Panavision 70mm, a wide-screen format that only a handful of theaters in the nation can project. (You can find a list of theaters here.)

One of those few theaters is the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood.

Screenings of “The Hateful Eight” were supposed to start at the iconic theater on Christmas Eve, but Tarantino is now saying that his film has been bumped from the venue because of “Star Wars.”

Disney, the distributor of “Star Wars,” is declining to comment, but Tarantino certainly isn’t. Here’s what the writer-director said on Howard Stern’s show today. (WARNING: contains course language)

So maybe we should now call the Hateful Eight the Hateful Nine.