Netflix threat to pull films after Cannes snubbing

NETFLIX has threatened to take its films out of the Cannes Film Festival following a bold attempt to limit the ever-increasing power the streaming giant wields in the film industry.

A new rule banning movies that are not released in cinemas from the main competition has effectively left the digital service out in the cold.

Netflix had been due to premiere five films at this year’s festival but has now retaliated to the edict by threatening not to bring any, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The move could impact several high profile filmmakers, including Paul Greengrass, the British director, whose film Norway, about the 2011 terrorist attack in which 77 people were killed, is understood to have been among those due to be screened.

Others that could be pulled are said to include Hold the Dark directed by Jeremy Saulnier, and Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind, a newly completed version of a project the late director filmed in the Seventies. Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma and Morgan Neville’s documentary They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead – about Welles – were also due to premiere at the event. The