At Cannes And Amid Controversy, Netflix Defends Its Strategy

Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s chief content officer: “Why would we want to hold back a movie for an enormous number of people to enjoy throughout the entire country that a few hundred, maybe a few thousand people could see the film in Paris? … It seemed to me like the right thing to do was to give the people, our subscribers, who pay to make these movies, access to them immediately all over the world.”