Meeting of The Wallets: Money And Productions
It seems that the money people are actually in search of producers as an alternative to producers selling out to streamers. Apparently, there is a pool of money in Hollywood (…)
The Rebate Debate: Cash with Caveats for Productions
The ability to negotiate the appropriate location, and one offering tax and/or cash-in-hand incentives, can be a godsend when seeking funds to start and complete a production.
However, at times, a (…)
Un programa de juegos presagia una presidencia
Antes de agosto, cuando Donald Trump declaró que “Hollywood is terrible” y que las películas son peligrosas, se sabía el futuro presidente de los Estados Unidos estaba fascinado con Tinseltown. (…)
NATPE Miami’s Six Tracks Drive Content Sales
“The theme of the up-coming NATPE Miami market is ‘Linear Plus’ because linear television still generates huge business worldwide and still drives the content market-place,” said NATPE president and CEO (…)
Donald Trump TV: How The Medium Became The Message And Took Office, Too
In the 1960s, Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan introduced the phrase “the medium is the message” to indicate that forms of media not only transmit information but also frame how it (…)
Brexit’s Impact on the U.K. Audiovisual Industry Is Analyzed By The Council of Europe
Recently, the Strasbourg, France-based European Audiovisual Observatory of the Council of Europe published an 80-page report detailing Brexit’s impact on the audiovisual sector, which is summarized below.
With Brexit, all E.U. (…)
Netflix Keeps Toon Titans Busy, Not Too Profitable
Once the gatekeepers of the worldwide animation business, Canadian toon producers have, of late, been rather quiet on the international TV distribution scene. It’s not that they are not producing, (…)
MIP Cancun Amid LATAM Turbulence
Parts of the world are clearly in a state of turmoil. Just look at what’s happening in the Middle East, North Africa, the U.K., Spain, and Hong Kong these days. (…)
The Common Ground of African, Caribbean TV-Film
It’s easy to see how the shared historical identities of both Africa and the Caribbean regions impact their film-TV industry, and hence why it is possible to have shared distribution.
The (…)
How to Find a Rewarding Streaming Money Flow
Streaming is all the rage these days, so much so that it has the potential to overturn a business model that has worked well — and has been profitable — (…)
