Current example: Rick and Morty. With that, I noticed how that doesn´t make sense to me. I get why a show might have to be translated and dubbed first in the case of countries with other languages, but why does the UK have a later release date for US-produced shows and movies than the US? It doesn´t even build up hype or anything, if anything it just encourages piracy. Once Rick and Morty is available in my country, I will probably have seen it already. So why do producers not try to go for a global release?
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Historically because companies used to sell rights to local distributors who handled things like promotion, translation and miscellaneous stuff like legal/ratings stuff – there used to be a lot of lag time in those processes.
Now, those things have been compressed from the “work” end of it and with global awareness, but bureaucracies still exist around ratings and stuff.
Also, high piracy jurisdictions are usually lagged to prevent them from leaking before the bigger profit markets.
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