During a director’s roundtable last year, The Farewell director Lulu Wang revealed that she had been offered more money for the film from a streaming giant but chose to go with theatrical distribution from A24 instead. “We got an offer at Sundance from A24, and also got a much larger, double offer from a large streaming platform,” continued Wang. “And, you know, the financiers and the producers of course were like, ‘Are you crazy? We have to take this bigger deal.’ And I said, ‘No. It’s not about the money.'” “For a film that’s 75-80% in …