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The Ice Highway has landed on Netflix however solely in the US. You will have seen critiques selling a broad launch for The Ice Highway however sadly, you in all probability gained’t be catching The Ice Highway on Netflix anytime quickly.
The brand new Liam Neeson epic hasn’t precisely scored the perfect critiques from critics however that usually doesn’t matter. The massive motion flick has been scoring loads of headlines that means that it’s in excessive demand.
However sadly, solely these in the US can stream the film.
Netflix has gone some method to defending these outdoors the US from being uncovered to The Ice Highway. The trailer from Netflix for instance is geo-restricted besides, virtually all protection of the film simply mentions that it’s a Netflix Unique film.
So what’s happening right here? Effectively, though it’s a Netflix Unique, Netflix didn’t produce the film. As an alternative, it simply acquired the unique distribution rights in the US that means it will probably solely present the film there.
If we glance again to the unique announcement as reported by The Hollywood Reporter, the film was offered on a per-country foundation.
Netflix within the US was the one nation to land the film with Prime Video scoring it in the UK and France with different international locations being offered to native distributors or worse, unsold.
We’d suggest utilizing a service like JustWatch.com to see the place it will definitely lands in your area however realize it is probably not out there proper now.
It’s not the primary time this has occurred. In actual fact, there’s a laundry list of movies and series the place this usually occurs. Subsequent month, Gunpowder Milkshake will observe an identical launch schedule with it solely arriving within the States.
It will probably and sometimes does work within the different route too. Earlier this 12 months for instance, in all places besides the US was handled to Tom Hanks’s Information of the World which is displayed as a Netflix Unique. In that case, Common held again the film from Netflix and in the mean time, is simply out there on VOD companies though is predicted to land on HBO Max finally.
We hope that explains why you’re not capable of watch The Ice Highway however in the event you’re unable to seek out it the place you reside, it in all probability doesn’t assist a lot.