Film executives are back home after Cannes, getting back to business as usual. Except things are not "as usual." The May 14-25 festival and market crystallized what many have suspected for a long time: The business has undergone fundamental changes in the past year.
--The acquisitions biz has shifted drastically.
--The funding world is completely different.
--Simultaneous with those shifts is Hollywood's new attitude toward foreign production. U.S. studios are aggressively looking to produce local-language projects for a particular territory or territories.
The studios may be Hollywood-based, but their conglom parents are thinking globally, which affects every business and creative decision. Click here for rest of article.
Film executives are back home after Cannes, getting back to business as usual. Except things are not "as usual." The May 14-25 festival and market crystallized what many have suspected for a long time: The business has undergone fundamental ...