LISTEN: Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Fight in France Over Streaming Quotas and Theatrical Windowing Rules

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On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, Variety’s Elsa Keslassy explains the battle that is brewing in France between Netflix and other streamers over the country’s programming quotas and its theatrical movie windowing rules.

Keslassy, who is Variety‘s international editor based in Paris, says France has a “love-hate relationship” with Netflix. The streamer has invested millions of dollars in French content but it is chafing at new regulations imposed in 2022 by the European Union that made a 20% quota of locally-produced programming for Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video and other streamers active in the country.”

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