{"id":552574,"date":"2023-02-16T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/berlin-market-streaming-giants-no-longer-dominate-indie-dealmaking\/"},"modified":"2023-02-16T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T08:30:00","slug":"berlin-market-streaming-giants-no-longer-dominate-indie-dealmaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/berlin-market-streaming-giants-no-longer-dominate-indie-dealmaking\/","title":{"rendered":"#Berlin Market: Streaming Giants No Longer Dominate Indie Dealmaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41a32dccfae\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a41a32dccfae\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/berlin-market-streaming-giants-no-longer-dominate-indie-dealmaking\/#Berlin_Market_Streaming_Giants_No_Longer_Dominate_Indie_Dealmaking\" >Berlin Market: Streaming Giants No Longer Dominate Indie Dealmaking<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Berlin_Market_Streaming_Giants_No_Longer_Dominate_Indie_Dealmaking\"><\/span>Berlin Market: Streaming Giants No Longer Dominate Indie Dealmaking<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    When, at the Sundance Film Festival two years ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>le bought worldwide rights to Sian Heder\u2019s <em>CODA<\/em> for a reported $25 million, it triggered panic across the independent film industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    International distributors who had pre-bought the movie \u2014 Heder\u2019s remake of 2014 French hit <em>La Famille B\u00e9lier <\/em>was a top seller for Path\u00e9 at Cannes\u2019 March\u00e9 du Film a year earlier \u2014 thought the Apple deal might signal the end of their business model. Why bother taking the up-front risk by investing in movie scripts and talent packages \u2014 the core activity at most international film markets \u2014 if a deep-pocketed tech company can come in after the fact and buy up the movie when it is finished? In the wake of the <em>CODA<\/em> deal, there was talk of sales companies and Hollywood talent agencies wanting to insert mandatory buyback clauses into indie distribution contracts, treating independent buyers, from their perspective, as little more than feeder teams for the streamers. If they bet on an indie package that turned into a great movie, sales agents could still flip to a streamer after the fact, paying them off with a finder\u2019s fee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    That never happened. Instead, as distributors, sales agents and talent reps gather in Berlin for the first in-person European Film Market in three years, streamers have scaled back their ambitions, while indies are looking stronger than ever. At Sundance, aside from a handful of big-number streamer buys \u2014Netflix\u2019s acquisition of Chloe Domont\u2019s erotic, psychological thriller <em>Fair Play<\/em>, Apple\u2019s worldwide deal for John Carney\u2019s musical dramedy <em>Flora and Son<\/em> \u2014 most of the action was indie: A24 taking Australian horror film <em>Talk to Her<\/em>, Magnolia buying Black transgender doc <em>Kokomo City<\/em>, Music Box Films acquiring French drama <em>Other People\u2019s Children<\/em>, Bleecker Street picking up Laurel Parmet\u2019s <em>The Starling Girl<\/em> and Oscilloscope taking Pakistani drama <em>Joyland<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cWe had six <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> at Sundance and everyone, except for <em>Flora and Son<\/em>, sold to independents,\u201d says Rob Carney, vp of sales at FilmNation. \u201cI see a real return to normalcy\u2026 the streamers are great partners and they aren\u2019t going away but our main focus, our core business, is the independent distribution market, that will always be our default priority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    In the end, it\u2019s a question of volume. While the streamers are still willing to dig deep when they see something they want \u2014 the <em>Fair Play <\/em>and<em> Flora and Son<\/em> deals were valued at $20 million each \u2014 these days, they don\u2019t want much.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cNetflix used to go after everything, but now it seems they\u2019re only buying what makes sense for them,\u201d notes one U.S. distributor. \u201cAnd the other streamers have never really been big buyers in the [indie film] space. Apple has consistently made one to two big purchases every year when they really respond to something, HBO Max never really bought much, except maybe a documentary here or there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    With dozens of new projects available at the EFM \u2014including a Liam Neeson action thriller, a David O. Russell-directed period dramedy and Woody Allen\u2019s new Paris-set rom-com, as well as potential art house gems from the U.S., Britain, Korea and beyond \u2014expect the bulk of the business in Berlin to be indie. And to see less conflict, and more cooperation between the streamers and old-school buyers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cThe situation with <em>CODA<\/em> in Sundance a couple of years ago was very binary [streamers vs. Indies] but people have moved on,\u201d says Cornerstone Films co-president Alison Thompson. \u201cWe\u2019re seeing evidence in some countries that the streamers are actively engaged and have relationships with their local independent distributors, doing deals that [are replacing] the high-end pay TV deals we had a few years ago. That\u2019s encouraging independent distributors to be a little bolder, to bet a bit more on the films they believe in.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n!function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\nif (f.fbq) return;\nn = f.fbq = function() {n.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);};\nif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\nn.push = n;\nn.loaded = !0;\nn.version = '2.0';\nn.queue = [];\nt = b.createElement(e);\nt.async = !0;\nt.src = v;\ns = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n}(window, document, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '352999048212581');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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