Russian online cinemas resumed negotiations with Hollywood

According to Okko’s public relations director, Artyom Sargsyan, “the situation has changed a bit” in recent days. “We have resumed communication with some megagers who had not previously made contact, indicating a change in their categorical position. But it is too early to talk about the return of catalogs, premieres and even more the time of this return, since everything depends on the political situation, “Sargsyan said.

Kinopoisk’s content director Nikolai Buts said that online cinema with colleagues in the market is negotiating “around the large package of new Lionsgate products”, including the expected launch of the summer film “Ballerina” (fifth “John Uik” franchise film).

The RBC starting press service said the service did not conclude the contracts with Hollywood studies at the time of its country departure, and now the company is not negotiating with them. In Wink and Kion, they refused to comment.

One more than. The RBC source, near another online cinema, said the main difficulty in resuming cooperation with Hollywood is payments. Another interlocutor agreed that the return of the western content will be possible after the elimination of “purely economic obstacles”, as well as “taking into account the new Russian legislation”, including the prohibition of the propaganda of LGBT*.

Context. The return of the western business to Russia is discussed in the context of the first in three years of negotiations in Moscow and Washington, which took place on February 18 in Riad. According to the results of the meeting, the Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, asked EU countries to concessions on anti -Russian sanctions. He pointed out that the restrictions were the result of the beginning of a military operation in Ukraine, and to “stop any conflict, it is necessary for all parties to make concessions.”

* “LGBT movement” is recognized as extremist and is prohibited in Russia.