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 CANNES, France (AP) - The tough reality of European cinema is that about 70 percent of ticket sales here are for American movies. And despite a few recent cross-border successes such as "The Chorus" or "A Very Long Engagement," the figures are not budging.
Politicians at the Cannes Film Festival are now focusing on one small-scale idea of to remedy the situation: promoting the Internet distribution of homegrown films.
The EU's commissioner for media, Viviane Reding, will meet Tuesday with film and telecommunication executives to talk about possible policies for film distribution online, and how similar technologies could promote cultural diversity.
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