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After a rule change disqualifying its films from competition, it won't screen anything.
Netflix won't be screening anything at Cannes this year, either in or out of competition. Despite debuting two titles last year, the first streaming provider to do so at the prestigious film festival, the backlash has been significant. The new rule banning any movie from competition that didn't have a theatrical run was a clear message: Streaming content creators weren't welcome.
"We want our films to be on fair ground with every other filmmaker," Netflix's chief content officer Ted Sarandos told Variety. "There's a risk in us going in this way and having our films and filmmakers treated disrespectfully at the festival. They've set the tone. I don't think it would be good for us to be there."
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/11/netflix-will-not-go-to-cannes-after-all/
From TechInsider:For fans of famed filmmaker and actor Orson Welles, the news on Wednesday that Netflix would be pulling the movies it planned to show at this year's Cannes Film Festival — including the world premiere of Welles' infamous final movie[*] — followed the narrative of the legend's complicated career.
[...] Welles' daughter, Beatrice, is pleading that the streaming giant reconsider.
"I was very upset and troubled to read in the trade papers about the conflict with the Cannes Film Festival," Beatrice wrote in an email sent to Netflix head of content Ted Sarandos on Sunday, according to Vanity Fair. "I have to speak out for my father."
"I saw how the big production companies destroyed his life, his work, and in so doing a little bit of the man I loved so much," Beatrice continued. "I would so hate to see Netflix be yet another one of these companies."
[*] The movie is "The Other Side of the Wind"; see: Wikipedia and IMDb.
(Score: 2) by looorg on Thursday April 12 2018, @09:57PM (5 children)
Is there some kind of definition for that? Period of time? Number of screens? or something like that? If it is just having been shown in a theater I guess Netflix can just build/buy their own theater and show all their stuff there a few times if going to Cannes would actually be important to them. That said do they really care? Isn't the money for them all about selling subs so people can binge-watch superhero shows and lesbian prison dramas?
Is this really just about big screen snobbery from the cinema people? One last chance to keep the small screen people in their place? Before they all get overtaken by the YouTube clippers?
(Score: 5, Informative) by MostCynical on Thursday April 12 2018, @10:04PM (4 children)
it is a French law, not a Cannes rule..
http://variety.com/2018/film/news/netflix-cannes-rule-change-ted-sarandos-interview-exclusive-1202750473/amp/ [variety.com]
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by black6host on Thursday April 12 2018, @10:25PM (3 children)
True, but misleading. French law may state that those in France may not see a movie until 36 months after it's theatrical release but the requirement of a theatrical release is strictly a Cannes requirement, not a legal one. I wonder, can Netflix release an original movie in France without theatrical release and be exempt from the 36 month rule? They certainly can with series/TV type shows. I'd bet a coffee/beer (your choice) that they can.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by MostCynical on Thursday April 12 2018, @10:58PM (2 children)
If they show on Netflix, in France, to be eligible, and legal, the theatrical release would have to be 36 months earlier.
Netflix isn't going to want to shelve a show for three years just to try and be eligible for Cannes..
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Fluffeh on Friday April 13 2018, @01:36AM (1 child)
So how does french TV work now? Surely there is some form of Pay-TV that has programming on air of movies without waiting for three years to air them. Surely the french people have access to DVDs in a release schedule inline with the rest of the world, so if it is on a DVD it has to be on media platforms like Netflix - or is there a magically high VPN usage in France where everyone hooks into another international market?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MostCynical on Friday April 13 2018, @01:48AM
Badly?
http://www.ifta-online.org/media-chronology-france-2017 [ifta-online.org]
http://www.cnc.fr/web/en/regulation-of-film-television-relations [www.cnc.fr]
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex