The afternoon keynote “Perspective from Leadership” will see Simon Crownshaw, worldwide strategy director of media and entertainment for Microsoft, and Allan McLennan, founder, chief executive and global market technologist for Padem Media Group, follow up their discussion at IBC and dig deeper with their leadership perspectives on the evolution of our M&E industry and related…
The artful master of linguistics and baseball legend Yogi Berra has been quoted as saying, “When you come to a fork in the road, take It!” The problem for the video content industry is that there are too damn many forks, each has potholes, and everyone is certain his fork is the right one. The…
This is going to come as a terrible shock to the people who run the content creation, production, and distribution companies, as well as their analysts and stockholders: There are people on this planet who don’t go to movie theaters, watch appointment TV, or stream their entertainment. Allan McLennan, CEO of PADEM Media Group,…
Drilling to the essence of 8K, McLennan sees an 8K stream having the potential to provide not only higher quality image but also more content; it’s a multi-layered, more efficient pipe. There is room for more information, even if it’s unclear what all of it will be. And therein may be where an 8K capable…
There could well be a peak for PeakTV as service providers move forward aggressively to entice viewers nationally and internationally despite the short-term global economic conditions. Studios/services need to continue to invest in new, unique content to attract more viewers. At the same time, they must develop a viable and profitable balance between subscription, ad-supported…
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.
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…
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…
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 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…