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«I personally don't perceive the Palme d'Or [should be] given to a film that is then not seen on the big screen,» Almodóvar told the room full of press, a comment which seemed to suggest the two Netflix films in competition this year, Noah Baumbach's The Meyerowitz Stories and Bong Joon - ho's Okja, have no shot at winning because they don't yet have a French theatrical release planned.
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Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Netflix has threatened not to bring any titles to the world's largest movie event after festival director Thierry Fremaux said last month that he won't screen any Netflix films in competition.
Not exact matches
Festival director Thierry Fremaux had said he believed Netflix would arrange some kind of cinema release for the two films in competition — The Meyerowitz Stories and Okja — both highly anticipated, with stars that include Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Stiller and Tilda Swinton.
The 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival began with another Netflix controversy, as the upstart studio pulled its films (including Alfonso Cuarón's Roma and Orson Welles» recently completed final feature, The Other Side of the Wind) from the competition in response to Cannes banning any film that does not get a theatrical release in France.
They then look at the news that the Cannes Film Festival has banned Netflix films from playing in competition.
The very future of cinema sometimes seemed to hang in the balance, as Netflix was banned from bringing one of its streaming titles to competition and responded by pulling all its films, worsening an already weak year for English - language cinema on the Croisette.
It's been in a sort of dispute with Cannes over the festival's decision to disqualify films that don't receive theatrical releases from its vaunted Competition; last year Netflix had two movies in Competition: Noah Baumbach's «The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)» and Bong Joon - ho's «Okja.»
Beginning next year, the festival will only admit films in competition that have French theatrical releases, which the Netflix films so far do not.
Its opening film is the British - produced mountaineering thriller Everest, featuring Anglo - American glamour in the shape of Jake Gyllenhaal, Keira Knightley and Josh Brolin; its competition strand has an impressive list of international auteurs, including Tom Hooper (The Danish Girl), Alexander Sokurov (Francofonia), Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash) and Charlie Kaufman (Anomalisa); and a number of authentic coups, including the world premiere screening of Black Mass, the much - hyped gangster film featuring Johnny Depp as James «Whitey» Bulger, and a first look at Beasts of No Nation, the African - set war thriller that represents Netflix's most serious shot yet across Hollywood's bows.
The pair's upcoming film Our Souls at Night — another Netflix - produced effort — will also receive its world premiere at the festival in an out - of - competition slot.
The Venice film festival kicks off awards - season with star power — from Clooney's Suburbicon to Damon in sci - fi comedy Downsizing — as it fights off competition from Telluride, Toronto and Netflix
«I'm glad HBO had a different position than Netflix,» says Bahrani, a pointed reference to the streaming giant's ongoing row with the Cannes organisers after the festival last year decreed that all films in the competition must get a theatrical release in France.
True Detective's Cary Fukunaga directs British star in the first competition film to screen at this year's Venice film festival — and the first awards contender from Netflix's new cinema division
Netflix had two films in Competition last year: Noah Baumbach's «The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)» and Bong Joon - ho's «Okja.»
Okja, one of the two Netflix films playing in competition (to great controversy), featured characters twisting language and capitalizing on linguistic differences for their own ends.
This year, it was Netflix that was the gorilla in the room, flexing its brawny muscles with its backing for two films in the competition, Bong Joon - ho's Okja and Noah Baumbach's The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected).
Add to that its rebellious nature — the film screened in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Netflix's first - ever entry — and was henceforth met with mixed emotions from cinema traditionalists.
While Netflix publicly ghosted the festival in April after bylaws were changed to require a French theatrical release for all competition films, Ted Sarandos» team couldn't resist buying a bit of prestige.
Last year, two Netflix films premiered in competition at Cannes, prompting outrage from French theatre owners and unions.
«I'm honored to be returning to Cannes, most especially this year with Okja and my partners at Netflix — it is wonderful to bring their first produced original film to premiere In Competition,» said Bong Joon Ho.
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) is a new film from writer / director Noah Baumbach (Greenberg, The Squid and the Whale, Frances Ha) that just debuted at the Cannes Film Festival as one of two titles playing in competition coming from Netflix.
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Cannes and Netflix are feuding right now, and Netflix pulled their films from Cannes after the prestigious film fest's new rule that bans films from competition that don't commit to distribution in French theaters — which seemed to particularly target Netflix.