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BAM ARTICLE-HAS YOUR FILM CATALOG BECOME A SLACKER?

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?

2018-12-152019-06-25 by thebutterflyAFFECT

BÂM ARTICLE-Dear Indie Movie Producers & Distributors, YOU’RE ALREADY IN THE TELEVISION BUSINESS

#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.

2017-12-062019-06-25 by sarahneanBRUCE

BÂM ARTICLE-HOW TO BUY, SELL, MERGE OR VALUE A FILM DISTRIBUTOR

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.

2017-06-062019-06-25 by sarahneanBRUCE

BÂM ARTICLE-«STILL» THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO REMEMBER AT CANNES

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.

2017-05-032019-06-25 by sarahneanBRUCE

BÂM ARTICLE-VALUING A SINGLE FILM OR ENTIRE FILM LIBRARY (Updated)

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.

2017-04-042019-06-25 by thebutterflyAFFECT

BÂM ARTICLE-ARE THERE STILL TOO MANY FILM / TV DISTRIBUTORS?

Recommendations to companies
who survived, evolved, and
thrived over the last three years

In 2014, Stephen published an article while consulting with a number of film sales agencies and distributors about the challenges they were facing.

READ ON regarding Today ~
Our advice to small/midsize distributors and sales agencies: …
&
Our advice to the large, better funded distributors and sales agencies: …

2017-03-152019-06-25 by sarahneanBRUCE

BÂM ARTICLE-MG RISKS AND REWARDS

The Benefits of, and Issues with,
Offering Minimum Guarantees

We wrote this essay after we recently interviewed six of the top independent feature and documentary distributors about the status of MGs today. What we learned and synthesized for this piece is the collective knowledge and opinions of those veteran film distributors, along with our company’s 35+ years of experience in the film, television and entertainment medias industry.

Here is what we found.

→ Distributors now take on more risk with Features and Documentaries.

2017-02-142019-06-25 by sarahneanBRUCE