Tuesday, 25 April 2017
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Marketing Week Part 3 - Distribution & Exchange
The Film Distributors Association has turned 100! So what's the
current life expectancy for cinematic releases?
1.
Why do
online streaming services like Netflix, Amazon and ITunes threaten the experience
of cinema exhibition?
In the text it says “The big-league digital platforms are
looking to buy more high-end feature film product and exert more and more
control over where and how it ”
which means that they are taking away the whole experience that made us first
love the cinema and film itself .
2.
What does
the article mean when it says ‘financial muscle’ and the ‘digital world
premiere is not far off’?
It means that companies like
Netflix are taking over and that if things continue the way they currently
are then there won’t be many cinemas
left to watch movies as everything will be shown digitally online making
Netflix and other streaming services gain a lot more money than they already
do.
3.
Which 3
films are Netflix associated with producing and distributing
·
Beasts of No Nation
·
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
·
Ridiculous Six
4.
What is
Netflix’s most ‘impressive catch to date’ and what are the reasons given for
this?
Having Ridiculous six plus three other
Adam Sandler projects is Netflix’s most impressive catch to date as Sandler is a proven
cinema heavyweight, with a career gross of nearly $4bn worldwide.
5. Paul Dergarabedian, say Netflix and Amazon automatically become major
players in film distribution .what are the reasons given?
He believes this because it’s a natural extension to produce
their own content, whether its TV series or feature films and that anyone who
has that level of cash to draw on can become a major player
6. Why does he suggest the theatrical release window will still stay
however?
He said it will still stay because he watched Mad Max and thought
that movies like that live in the movie theatre. Also because streaming companies
are very smart and so understand the economics but are not interested to break
the “theatrical window”.
7. In Britain there are fears for film-makers’ survival and theatrical
cinematic release. Why is this?
Because of the rise of self-distribution and the release of
theatrical and home entertainment formats, more and more films are passing
through our cinemas, leading to calls
for their culling.
8. Why is free to air TV no longer seen as a good thing for distributors?
What type of position do they want that TV cannot fully provide?
Streaming companies like
Netflix want a global position, which messes up your ability to sell
to broadcast networks in other countries..Free-to-air TV is reducing in significance
all the time as an outlet as it used to be third or fourth in line, but now
it’s seventh or eighth.
9. Are small, low budget speciality films affected by the development of
online streaming companies like Netflix? What reasons are suggested?
Streaming companies’ activity doesn’t impact on the practicalities
of smaller films /the low-budget films. The films getting made or seen is irrelevant
at the point of financing
10. How has digital technology affected the way films are distributed and
exhibited?
Digital technology means that accessibility and flexibility
of films have increased radically. While projecting 35mm is a selling-point in
itself, it’s really about respect for the original artists and their work as
they shot their films in this medium for specific reasons.
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