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French law defines a whole "media chronology" where a movie can only be shown in theaters the first x months, then it can only be leased for the next x months,

• extraduder_ire 3y ago
  Why is that? I assume that's in a no-later-than sense, with later tiers being added on and not replacing earlier ones. If not, wouldn't that make second-run films or pulling under-performers from screens earlier illegal?
  • LelouBil 3y ago
    Oh yeah my bad I explained it poorly. The next steps doesn't prevent the ones before. But about under performers, it has an exception for movies that did under a specific amount of entries, for them the timeline is shorter but still there : you can pull it out of theaters the day right after the release, but you'll still need to wait a (shorter) time to release it on disc. This law made Disney release (at least one) movie only on Disney+ in France, bypassing theaters.