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People Like to See Different Content Different Ways

The only way that’s possible for blockbuster films to turn a profit is by showing their films first in theaters and then scheduling them in their streaming service or dividing up regional streaming/TV rights with other folks. While there continues to be a strong preference to seeing a movie the first time in a theater with friends and surrounded by strangers, people have become more comfortable with the convenience of viewing films at home where they can pause, rewind, fast-forward.

Now Serving Viewing Options

While moviemakers had shifted their focus to tomorrow to drill down and determine how they could develop, afford and enforce wholesale changes in the way movies are shot/made, NATO (National Association of Theater Owners) and UNIC (International Union of Cinemas) as well as indie and chain operations around the globe were reevaluating how people would…

2021 IBC a Sign of a Return to Normal

The smaller size and lower bitrate of high-resolution 4K, 8K, HDR (high dynamic range) raw footage enables editors, colourists, FX, sound editors, animators, CGI pros and others to move the content smoothly around the globe and minimise their storage needs. Once the top-down work is done the content, instructions can go back to the cloud…

October 2021 – The Hunt for Post Solutions Now at IBC

The industry has been moving to refine/streamline video content production since 2006 when the major studios like Disney, Warner Bros, Paramount, Sony, Universal, others founded MovieLabs, a think tank to enable the future of film and TV production. Before anyone had an inkling that the world would come to a screeching halt in 2019, the…

The Window Is Now Open for More Entertainment and It Will Stay Open

The owners and Hollywood crowd gave a slight sigh of relief when ordinary people seemed to understand and get excited with Warner Bros./Christopher Nolan’s Tenet. Enough people were desperate enough to get out to earn $100M plus/minus in the convoluted film’s first week (probably given a little boost by a masked Cruise grabbing a seat…

Entertainment Is A Serious Business

Worldwide demand for all streaming content services shows no sign of slowing, according to Allan McLennan, Global Media Tech Analyst & CEP/Media, Head of M&E North America, Atos. “SVOD subs will reach more than 500M this year and it is forecasted to be more than 1.170M by 2025,” he noted. He added that pay-per-view (TVOD)…

McLennan Analyst of the Month – August 2021

There is No Single Path in the Streaming Video Industry

You’re right, Ruben. The world does keep moving, and it can be a damn cruel place.” – Joe, “Sound of Metal,” Amazon Studios, 2019   We’re a little over halfway through 2021 and surprise, the content industry not only survived the pandemic but in many ways is thriving because of it.   We realize that…

It is Time for Streamers to Quit Being Selfish

The key to a successful market research project is determining what results you want to achieve…conduct the project and BAM! you’ve got the results that your boss or client has been waiting to see, hear. Take the work done by Paramount + several months ago when they rolled out their service. First, they touted the deep and…

Getting the Best from Streaming Services

We played chess a little bit while in college. It was a way to feel like you were doing something constructive while skipping classes and if you were winning, you weren’t wasting time. And before you ask … no, we weren’t that great at it. In retrospect, it’s a little like streaming … you know…