One upon a time, movies were released in different countries at different times. This could be done because there was no easy way to copy and store away a movie. If you lived in Italy, you could wait up to two years before you saw a popular movie. Then two things happened: it became easy to copy and store movies; and everybody in the world suddenly became interconnected. The regional segregation has ended: the only ones to believe that it's still there are the dinosaurs from a past era.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2015, @05:04PM
Adi Shankar has a much better perspective on what it takes to get a movie made and financed. Watch his video on the process https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWP88WKVBKs [youtube.com]
Now remember there are now dozens of 'owners' in 'regions'. You can see exactly how we ended up with what we have. Basically the financiers are either trying to make the movie look like a loss (no distribution deals, tax writeoff), or being greedy (only particular exclusive deals).
It is one part trying to do segmented pricing one part 'exclusive contracts'. Remember the people paying the bills want their money back.