Disney is taking a stance versus the recently revised French windowing system, opting to bypass theatrical on animated action adventure Strange World in France and sending it directly to Disney Plus.

France’s Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak told a film industry gathering on Thursday that new windowing rules, which came into force in February, were already retrograde in the fast-changing film, ...

The French have a penchant for “doing frivolous things seriously, and serious things frivolously”, so the country’s political philosopher Montesquieu observed during the 18th century. This combination ...