FilmNation, CAA execs say distributors over-index on streaming risk-mitigation
Deadline’s Stewart Clarke reports that at TIFF: The Market, FilmNation CEO Glen Basner said indie distributors default to selling projects to pay TV and streamers to mitigate risk, which he argued produces movies built for streaming rather than theatrical.
Why it matters. Packaging films for streamer pre-sales instead of theatrical audiences leaves distributors reliant on streamer deals to de-risk projects, weakening their leverage to build genuine theatrical propositions.
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