French law requires movies shown in theaters in France to stay off streaming for 36 months. It's an absurd regulatory capture on par with us auto dealer requirements.
If it's an actual law, that sounds utterly absurd. Good on Netflix for not playing ball.
More information on it: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronologie_des_m%C3%A9dias
We have laws on the percentage of "foreign" music you are allowed to play on radio stations (to fight against the evil english language), laws that prevent TV channels from playing films on friday or saturday evening (to protect those poor cinemas), laws that govern the number of pharmacies by number of inhabitants and disallow ownership of multiple pharmacies or ownership by non-pharmacists (to protect them against the great evil that is competition)...
While that seems a bit over the top, I find the part where it must be owned by a pharmacist quite reasonable. It's the same in Germany.
That there should be a licensed pharmacist at all times in the store - fine. But why does the store have to belong to one? To take a stereotypically German example, we don't say that all garages have to be owned by mechanics :)
Reed Hastings
The cinematic arts requires a cinema by definition.
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Transformation+o...
(or some other hit on "quantitative change leads to qualitative change")
How a film is displayed informs how the film is shot. The same would go for audio as well. How the audio is heard informs how the audio is mixed and mastered.
Not to be condescending, but it's really not hard to understand. People don't make films to be shown on a phone for instance. Or if they do make films to be shown on a phone, then it's not a film they'll be making.
Your definition would call Netflix's recent film "Bright" a show, which of course it is not. Cannes is being ridiculous.