04-28-2018, 06:51 AM
We're talking about a 17 million euros film sold to various distributors across the globe. Distributors that could sur the producers with good reason for damaging the value of their purchase by showing it for free on the internet. It's no solution.
What intrigues me most in this, and nobody seems to notice, is that Paulo Branco is suing the Cannes film festival, but not the french distributor that will release the film stateside the same day !
As the press release goes : "Alfama Films Production has been granted permission to obtain a writ against the Cannes Film Festival ", so it must mean it hasn't been granted permission to do the same against the distributor ! For what reason, I can't say but at the moment it means that the film is free to screen in France, and perhaps elsewhere (the Spanish release has been announced for June 1st). Perhaps due to the clause in the contract pointed to by the producers saying that "no legal conflict could delay, in whatever way, the production or exploitation of the film".
What intrigues me most in this, and nobody seems to notice, is that Paulo Branco is suing the Cannes film festival, but not the french distributor that will release the film stateside the same day !
As the press release goes : "Alfama Films Production has been granted permission to obtain a writ against the Cannes Film Festival ", so it must mean it hasn't been granted permission to do the same against the distributor ! For what reason, I can't say but at the moment it means that the film is free to screen in France, and perhaps elsewhere (the Spanish release has been announced for June 1st). Perhaps due to the clause in the contract pointed to by the producers saying that "no legal conflict could delay, in whatever way, the production or exploitation of the film".