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The Government of Canada is spending C$23 million over 3 years on the Toronto Film Festival’s first sanctioned market. Except not one Toronto world premiere closed a U.S. deal during the last festival
One word from a 1970s contractual definition can make the largest revenue line for independent films invisible to every residual formula. None of the Guilds have attempted to change it in five decades
Is There Grant Big Enough To Matter?
A Disney+ subscription at the center, merchandise moved under the entertainment studios’ control, a TikTok & Verts deal will reshape consumer contact. Disney will look completely different in 2 years
What a $35 Million Dollar Film Actually Costs, And Who Actually Pays For It
Goldman wrote it in 1983 and the business has been hiding behind it ever since. Nine marketing campaigns made a claim this year. Seven sold recognition. The gap between them is the issue
Two studios created their own premium formats for marketing this summer. Double the PLF screens and everyone wins - filmmakers, consumers, studios and exhibitors.
Two Business Strategies are forming inside one format. The dividing line is who owns the work.
Three deals that show you content isn't everything.
I told a room of UCLA students that this is the best time in 50 Years to be in this business. They were astonished. The last time the Industry was in upheaval, it exploded with creativity!
Do that division and the streaming sophomore slump stops being a mystery
