HBO Max has agreed to dedicate part of its mandatory investment in French and European content for documentaries and animation, embracing new French sub-quota rules that rival streamers are challenging in court. The agreement put HBO Max on a different path from Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+ which have each lodged an appeal before the
In today’s episode of the “Daily Variety” podcast, VarietyElsa Keslassy’s Elsa Keslassy explains the battle brewing in France between Netflix and other streaming services over the country’s programming quotas and its theatrical movie window rules. Keslassy, what is it VarietyNetflix’s international editor, based in Paris, claims that France has a “love-hate relationship” with Netflix. The
