→ The streaming business is beyond Netflix, Amazon, and Disney+.
“Even Cannes, the bastion of the big screen cinema experience,
knows streaming is inevitable.” – BREAKING NEWS: The Hollywood Reporter, 5/14/2019 by Scott Roxborough
To bring a deeper understanding of the Streaming media business, our firm interviewed six experts in the industry, with deep, intimate knowledge of how to create, run and buy/sell these new media assets.
Our quick “How To” maximize revenue, and minimize costs, of your catalog of movies, television series, and documentaries.
This article represents the next installment in our ongoing series, as we seek to advise and help film distributors, sales agents and other rights holders on “How To” maximize revenue, and minimize costs, of their catalog of movies, television series, and documentaries.
Remember when those nice new films came home with you? They were funny, and exciting… so full of promise. But now, they’ve grown lazy and almost completely useless. What can you do with those dozens, or even hundreds of back catalog films that have worn out their welcome, and are no longer contributing to your household income?
A Short Essay on How Film and Television Distributors
Can Survive Rough Waters Now,
and Rougher Waters Ahead
Here is the latest in our ongoing series of discussions about the state of the global Indie movie & television industry. In this piece, we wanted to share an update from our recent interviews with several of our indie film and television industry business associates to get the inside scoop on how they changed course to become more successful.
Here is the latest in our ongoing series of discussions about the state of the global Indie movie & television industry. In this piece, we wanted to help our indie TV & film producer / distributor business associates better understand current OTT opportunities.
We recently interviewed several of our OTT-channel business associates to get the inside scoop on how to capitalize on over-the-top content.
If you think that the value of your movie and documentary film library remains the same year to year, think again. Here is the latest in our ongoing series of discussions about the state of the global Indie movie industry.
We had a conversation the other day with a prospective new client about the value of a motion picture library that they were looking to acquire – and the comparative value of the company that owns those films. That conversation reminded us how outmoded the thinking is for many entertainment professionals who see the value of their film assets as unchanging.
#LATEST in our ongoing series of discussions about the state of the global Indie movie industry.
Advice for movie distributors and
Indie movie production companies
on why, when, and how to
segue into television production
In this piece, we explore why movie distributors should (& could) segue into the production & distribution of serial television content.
Our premise is that there is very little difference between marketing film & television content. With the growing demand for high concept series, film distributors are missing the boat if they are not helping to develop and market series.
Some based on movies that they have distributed, & others completely original. The inherent risk of making & selling a movie can be far greater than that of a limited television series.
There may be several ways
to get into film distribution
but there are only a few
successful ways to get out
We wrote this piece for entertainment professionals who own a film and/or television content distribution business, because they know what challenges impact their businesses. Challenges like lower revenue from foreign sales; disintermediation due to self- distribution; rising acquisition costs for quality productions; the need to invest earlier in films in order to lock up distribution rights; increased risk from foreign competitors, and more. It has never been easy to be in the film distribution business, but lately the hurdles seem to be growing, and a clear path forward more challenging.
Advice for companies looking to move up or make a change in the film distribution industry.
Buying, selling, merging and valuing film distributors is not impossible, in fact, it is done all the time. For the health of the film industry it is critical that media entrepreneurs know that they can buy other companies, sell their own businesses, or merge with strategic partners.
Before you go to Cannes …
Advice for companies venturing to Cannes 2017, and what it can mean for them
Three years ago, before my colleagues were heading off to Cannes, we posted a short article about branding.
We find now, in 2017, that our advice is the same: Go to build your brand.
Updated recommendations to
companies who might wonder
how to value their films or libraries.
Stephen Kerr, has been an appraiser of film and television properties for more than 25 years. He recently finished the valuation of three more film libraries for the owners/distributors of those titles. In 2014, he published an article while consulting with a number of film sales agencies and distributors about the challenges they were facing.
In 2017, he updated that piece.
If you want to buy or sell all the rights to a film, you do not necessarily have to call an appraisal company to arrive at a fairly accurate value of the property.
In 2017, he updated that piece after interviewing six of the top independent feature and documentary distributors about the importance of making Minimum Guarantees (MG RISKS & REWARDS), and the overall status of the film/television distribution industry today.
Here is how to do it in FOUR STEPS.
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