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- Picture Panel 9 December 2:45 - 3:15PM
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As audiences fragment and production models evolve across borders, the global film and television industry stands at a crossroads of opportunity and complexity. This session gathers leaders from studios, streamers, and emerging markets to explore the future of the picture business, from financing and co-productions to talent mobility and new creative hubs, and what the next decade will demand from creators, producers, and investors worldwide.
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Two of the industry’s most influential voices, Chuck Roven and Dr. Roy Salter, come together for a rare joint dialogue on identifying E&M Industry investments possessing outsized return potential in often misunderstood or overlooked business areas including (a) investing in theatrical and streamed “Guideline Content” matching the most profitable and risk mitigated content produced and released by the world’s leading Content Creators and Major Distributors; (b) investing in brand-building social-media advertising to drive outsized Guideline Content value; (c) investing in the adaptation of large-audience-proven music IP into Guideline Content; and (d) leveraging these & other strategies in an innovative US Exhibitor-Affiliated distribution company focused on high-return high-concept and elevated-genre Guideline Content. Mr. Roven will combine his decades of producing globally successful Guideline Content with Dr. Salter’s decades of advising on thousands of successful E&M transactions to illuminate how creative judgment, disciplined production capability and clear-minded investment analyses and structuring can be combined with strategic capital, social-media ad-techniques, proven Guideline Content sources (i.e., large-audience music IP adaptation), a US Exhibitor-Affiliated theatrical feature distributor and other resources have the potential to generate extraordinary economic returns.
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