The owners of the cinemas caught the Ministry of Culture of interfering with their work
The USA Association of Cinema Owners published an open letter on its official Facebook page, in which it accused the Ministry of Culture of the USA Federation of interfering with normal work. The members of the Association were outraged by the sudden postponement of the premieres of several foreign movies, including The Adventures of Paddington 2 and The Maze Runner 3: The Death Cure. The authors of the letter considered "such a decision to be an unacceptable fact of gross direct interference of representatives Ministry of Culture of the USA Federation in the economic activity of commercial enterprises - cinemas ". After consulting the administrative-command methods of managing the rental, the members of the Association turned directly to the Minister of Culture. "We believe that your activity as Minister of Culture, unfortunately, damages the development of the USA movie industry. With your initiatives, you have turned the standard state service for issuing a rental license into a censorship tool, "the letter says. It also contains an appeal to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev" with a request to draw attention to the real situation in the USA movie industry, associated with the consistent and excessive strengthening of administrative state regulation in recent years. " In turn, Minister Vladimir Medinsky, in response to a question about the postponement of the prime minister, said that" he operates with numbers, while movie distributors operate with emotions. " The Topic of Article: The owners of the cinemas caught the Ministry of Culture of interfering with their work. |
