Russia appreciates Armenia’s offer to distribute foreign films across the CIS 14:41

The Armenian Cinema Fund’s idea of ​​showing films simultaneously across the CIS is unlikely if distribution certificates are obtained in at least one of the association’s countries. It would be easy to do this with Russian films, but it is not clear how it would work with foreign films. explained Chairman of the Association of Cinema Owners (AVK) NSN Alexey Voronkov.

It should also be recalled that the vice president of the Armenian Cinema Fund, Vardan Abovyan, called for automatic distribution of films that have received the appropriate certificate in at least one of the CIS countries. According to him, intergovernmental negotiations are currently underway among the EurAsEC countries, but it is possible that these negotiations will be expanded to include the CIS countries. Voronkov called the idea interesting, but added that he was skeptical about it, since there is no such thing as a “rental certificate”, and therefore it is not clear how it will be implemented in practice.

Russia today makes copies of foreign films, and cinemas do not officially work only with Hollywood studios.

“European films come here, French films here… Chinese films here, Indian films, British films. So the block only goes to Hollywood studios,” the expert emphasized.

He added that small film studios continue to work mainly with Russia.

Before him Voronkov called for legislation This would require cinemas to pay for showing foreign films. He stressed that such a measure would help prevent situations where unofficial box office sales in cinemas exceed official box office sales, citing Belarus as an example where such a law exists.

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