Can Survive Rough Waters Now,
and Rougher Waters Ahead
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Written by
Stephen J. Kerr & Sarah Nean Bruce
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This past month our firm polled about a dozen mid-sized film and television distributors to get their take on the current state of the industry. We have been doing these periodic state of the industry reports for more than 20 years. Here is what we recently found: while independent film distribution has rarely been an easy business, never has the path ahead looked so difficult.
The prognosis for 2019 is much the same.
One of the bright spots continues to be Asia, where the gargantuan China market is just opening up to more Western IP. Any foreign sales company without an Asia sales specialist on staff is missing out.