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Associated Press: In Netflix’s first official visit to the Cannes Film Festival, the streaming service’s ambitions have been met warily at the Cote d’Azur cinema capital, a 68-year-old movie palace reverential to the theater-going experience. Ted Sarandos, chief content officer of Netflix, appeared to tout the company’s global strategy and its desire to upend the traditional window release schedules of movies. One French reporter shouted that Netflix will “destroy the film ecosystem in Europe.”