Festival under pressure from France’s powerful exhibition lobby.
Netflix’s decision to give the Cannes Film Festival a miss this year following the competition ban for films without theatrical distribution in France will likely pour oil on the country’s already inflamed media chronology debate.
The stand-off between the festival and the platform hinges in part on France’s strict media windows legislation which imposes a 36-month delay between a film’s theatrical release and its diffusion on an SVoD platform.
Under the existing framework, if Netflix were to release one of its once Cannes-tipped titles – such as Alfonso Cuarón...
Netflix’s decision to give the Cannes Film Festival a miss this year following the competition ban for films without theatrical distribution in France will likely pour oil on the country’s already inflamed media chronology debate.
The stand-off between the festival and the platform hinges in part on France’s strict media windows legislation which imposes a 36-month delay between a film’s theatrical release and its diffusion on an SVoD platform.
Under the existing framework, if Netflix were to release one of its once Cannes-tipped titles – such as Alfonso Cuarón...
- 4/12/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
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