To recap: Netflix has two films in competition at Cannes this year — Bong Joon-ho’s Okja and Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories.
The jury at this year’s Cannes film festival features a diverse group of acclaimed filmmakers and actors, including Park Chan-wook, Jessica Chastain, Pedro Almodóvar and Will Smith — yes, as in the artist formerly known as the Fresh Prince.
Netflix has no effect on what they go to see in a movie theater.
Unfortunately, Netflix — unlike Amazon — isn’t particularly concerned with theatrical distribution, and their general attitude toward the movie theater business hasn’t exactly helped matters, either.