As the Russian mass media reported, old movies and foreign TV series began to disappear from their service libraries. On the biggest Russian video service “Kinopoisk” you can no longer watch movies like “1+1”, “Interstellar”, “Lord of the Rings”, “Mask”, “Friends” or even Brazilian TV series. “Clone”.

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Confident that the sanctions would not affect the old tapes, it turned out that not everything was as the company had promised its users. They say that now the screening contracts for movies and TV series are slowly coming to an end and it has become much more difficult than before, and the process is now taking longer.

After purchasing a movie or series in the catalogue, the video services right holder signs a contract for a certain period of time. In the current environment, for example, Warner Bros. It takes longer to renew deals, such as projects from studios like and Disney really may not exist yet,
– Say the representatives of the “Kinopoisk”.

But at the same time, some studios did not even refuse to sell new content to Russia, not to mention the old one. Thus, on August 22, the “Game of Thrones” prequel, the TV series “Dragon House” will be released.

Analysts do not yet predict a decline in the number of online cinema users, but they do expect growth rates to fall from 65 percent in 2021 to 12 percent now. Services began to focus more on Russian content, unable to purchase new releases from European and American film companies.