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Kids’ Properties Move Onto Buying Movies Is An The Big Screen Big Time Art Based On Figures MIPCOM-AFM competition is “filmsy” BY BOB JENKINS o, what are the film genres and Television Association, 19 of those that will be most popular with companies were found under IFTA’s t used to be the case that taking a buyers at AFM? Naturally, AFM Umbrella Stand, representing one kids’ TV series and transferring it talking with distributors, the more than last year. A similar crossover to the big screen was a relatively rare best movies are those that exists with buyers, but, according to they’re distributing at the phenomenon. But it is becoming Santa Monica market, which (Continued on Page 21) much more common every year. is taking place November When it comes to adapting S2-9. The date itself has been kids’ TV series for cinema, few criticized for falling just The UV Cloud Is Following Icompanies are more active right now than after MIPCOM and at the Your Content Consumers Germany’s Studio 100, which is currently end of the buyers’ budget BY SARA ALESSI producing two such projects, Maya The availabilities. Bee with Flying Bark Productions of In fact, there’s a bit of Australia, part of the Studio 100 Group; consortium of Hollywood studios, technology overlap between MIPCOM providers (like Toshiba), entertainment retailers and House of Anubis with Nickelodeon and AFM: Out of the 334 Germany. Plus, it has three more in Horrid Henry is (such as Best Buy) consumer device makers now a film star distribution companies that (e.g. Samsung Electronics) and video service development: Woodlies, Blinky Bill and exhibit at the AFM, 113 (or A providers (e.g. Netflix), called Digital Entertainment Heidi and the Viking King. The company close to 34 percent) were also has also recently made movies off the Content Ecosystem (DECE) have joined forces to at MIPCOM. According offer UltraViolet, or UV (formerly known as Universal to the Independent Film (Continued on Page 4) (Continued on Page 4) The NATPE-Bound Get Bountiful

ust because there are 82 days left before NATPE doesn’t mean the market isn’t on people’s minds. J In fact, NATPE has become a yearlong topic of conversation, and whoever introduces the subject during gatherings is assured full attention. NATPE’s CEO Rick Feldman stated, “This January we will see the distribution community spread over all the buildings in the Fontainebleau’s footprint. We cut the suites in the Tresor [Tower] by about half and are using more space in the other towers and in meeting rooms, which will be down the hall behind the show floor. Also, the Digital Theater will be removed from the show floor to allow more distributors to use the floor. We will also have a place for smaller companies to exhibit at a screening station á la [DISCOP] Budapest and we will have an added lounge for attendees to rest. We are already running ahead of projections and expect growth in both buyers and sellers in January ’12.” When asked whether NATPE would offer discount packages to encourage exhibitors to attend DISCOP Budapest (now NATPE-Budapest), Feldman responded, “About 30 percent of our Budapest companies are also in Miami.

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Buying movies at the AFM is an art based on figures. The decimal point has nothing to do with it

16. Focus on (what’s left of) Italy

The UV cloud is following your wallet. The studios’ new & better mousetrap

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Cover stories: 8. Show news: If it’s showing, it’s news Kids’ properties move onto the big screen big time. Who woulda Cthunk it!

10. Content news: Happy to be content

Buying movies at the AFM is an art based on figures. The decimal point has nothing to do with it

16. Focus on (what’s left of) Italy

The UV cloud is following your wallet. The studios’ new & better mousetrap

18. Book Review: Eli Wallach’s Spaghetti Western Was Al Dente

NATPE-bound get bountiful. Miami is warming spirits (parties with booze to follow)

22. My2¢: The complexity of simplicity

6. Markets & Festivals: Roma Fiction Fest, Prix Italia and Roma Cinema Fest live action film will re-imagine Thomas product from a stand rather than a suite, Kids’ TV to appeal to the entire family, while where buyers will be able to find telenovela still remaining true to the characters, NATPE Pushovers, as well as animated product and to Film and rich storytelling tradition of Rev. formats, among other product. Likewise, Awdry.” And, like Elmendorff, she (Continued from Cover) too was confident that the process of (Continued from Cover) according to Carolina Scheinberg of SBT, re-imagining the characters will please the company is “analyzing the possibility back of TV series such as K3, Plop, aficionados, noting, “with a creative team Some of them have simple tables or of having a stand,” to display the new and Pete the Pirate. Managing director that includes Shane Acker (Academy viewing boxes, so any packaging makes telenovelas and formats they’ll bring to Patrick Elmendorff explained, “It is little sense. For companies eager to book Award nominee for 9), Weta Workshop Miami. Fox Telecolombia’s Ana Maria part of Studio 100’s overall strategy to and Mattel’s entertainment design team suites at both shows, we are willing to explore its own IP in as many business working alongside the writing team of talk to them on a case-by-case basis.” Barreto was enthusiastic that Lynch (a fields as possible, and “it is undeniable Chris Viscardi and Will Robb (Alvin However, a few distributors said, 13-episode series) would be available, since it that a movie strengthens a brand and the Chipmunks) and Josh Klausner in effect, “we have many issues with was “too early to promote it at MIPCOM,” enormously.” (Shrek the Third), we feel confident that NATPE, and there is a great deal that we as well as the third season of documentary Mike Watts, joint MD of Novel we have assembled a well respected team could say on the subject, but we prefer Taboo and the third season of Kdabra. Entertainment, who released a feature to produce a Thomas movie that families not to put it on record.” At MIPCOM, adaptation of Horrid Henry this worldwide will be excited about and one executive made an appointment In preparation for NATPE, Telefilms’ summer, concurred: “A movie brings embrace.” to speak with VideoAge on the subject, Tomas Darcyl noted that the company a ring of confidence to a brand and The creative challenges involved in the but, by the time we turned up, that very purchases product in Toronto and at person had been told by their superiors the potential for greater impact on the making of the feature version of Horrid MIPCOM and AFM, and that new not to give the interview. Frecuencia high street, especially in areas such as Henry, were, said Watts, “finding the Latina Internacional’s Patricia Jasin was product will be available at NATPE. clothing, toiletries, games and toys.” right Henry, and then making his world more candid. While she acknowledged The film’s opening took in just under believable, while keeping the audience Delmar Andrade at Brazil’s Record TV that “the suites are spread over different £3 million (U.S.$5 million), placing it at engrossed and entertained for 90 minutes. Network added, “We will be at NATPE towers,” she worried that “it may number four in the U.K., the only non- In casting Theo Stevenson as Henry, we be a problem for the buyers to keep and we believe that 2012 will be fantastic Hollywood movie in the top five. definitely made the right call, as for the appointments…We’ll see how it goes. If for the Latin American broadcasters Clearly this is not a process that would rest, only time will tell,” he said. it’s not better [than last year] we may not because of great productions, and the be considered unless the brand was When it comes to choosing a studio get a suite the following year.” brand new version of Rebeldes will be already very well established, and for partner for such a project, however, On the other hand, there seem to be offered there.” such brands, there are inherent dangers there is a wide divergence of opinion. many Latin distributors who are very in being adapted into a movie. For Pistor, “a potential studio will have happy with “the new NATPE.” Alejandra As Elmendorff said of Maya, “the biggest to have a large reach in order to bring Recasens at Telemundo commented, risk is to disappoint the expectations Thomas the movie to as many screens as “It was a good start. Of course we are of the audience and lifelong fans of possible. She added, “We are also looking delighted with the move to Miami, not Maya The Bee. Three generations have for a studio willing to stand behind just because that is where we are based, The UV Cloud grown up with the character and now the project and commit the necessary but also because the East Coast is so the challenge is to introduce the slightly financial and marketing resources.” much more accessible for both our Latin revised character design needed for 3D.” For Elmendorff the best bet is a American clients and also Europeans, (Continued from Cover) Although Elmendorff was confident that, “joint collaboration so that ideas from and this was reflected in a 30 percent DRM), a system that allows consumers to “we will capture that charm, fun and joy all partners lead to the best possible increase in foot [traffic] on our stand — buy content digitally and store the rights of the classic Maya and give the visuals a outcome.” But he accepts that, “dividing we simply could not be happier.” to that content in a personalized “locker” fresh lick of 3D paint, with the result that the risks and costs of the movie is also RCN’s Maria Jose Ramos was or so-called cloud so that they can enjoy the character will continue to live in the part of the consideration process.” enthusiastic about NATPE because of the unlimited streaming for as long as a hearts of future generations.” Meanwhile, Watts looks for, “technical increased attendance of Latin buyers in year, and three downloads to any device. HIT Entertainment is another company expertise, professionalism and empathy particular. She noted that the company Spearheaded by technology manufacturers will be equipped with two or three new taking an iconic character from the small with the material.” such as Phillips, Toshiba and Hewlett- screen to the big screen, in their case with telenovelas. Similarly, Caracol’s Monica Packard, the Pleasanton, CA-based UV Both Watts and Elmendorff said that, Ramon assured VideoAge that the Thomas The Tank Engine. “Translating consortium is growing rapidly. With only as Elmendorff put it, “The decision to company will be in Miami with new Thomas and the Island of Sodor into an 12 members in September 2008, DECE green light the movie will be driven by the telenovelas. Marcel Vinay at TV Azteca all-new family movie franchise is certainly now has approximately 75 partners. popularity of the series and phenomenonal was more specific: “Two new telenovelas Basically, UV is called a cloud-based an ambitious undertaking with some ratings.” Watts concurred that, “The series are in production, and we’re working on a system because streamed content doesn’t risk attached,” said Rick Glankler, SVP, must have been successful and the characters co-production with Disney, so that will be sit on a computer (or any other consumer Global Brand Management — Thomas must have already connected with the ready for NATPE.” Frecuencia’s Jasin was storage device), but rather on DECE’s & Friends, and Licensing — Thomas audience. From the perspective of raising happy to announce that Against the Ropes, system or “cloud.” Traditionally, when EMEA, HIT Entertainment. “We see the finance it would also, ideally, have which was nominated for an International content is stored on consumers’ devices it’s the movie,” explained Glankler, “as a Emmy Award, will be available, as will been successful outside its home territory,” called a download, and can be a rental or re-imagining of the classic railway stories Uruguayan series The Way I Love You Watts explained. Additionally, the content a sale on only that device. When content created by the Rev. Awdry, and that is and one new telenovela that has yet to be must lend itself to a movie adaptation sits on a “cloud” it can be streamed from really the only similarity between our — turning short form animation into a named, among other product. established pre-school Thomas & Friends any device and can be rented for a period full length feature requires a sustainable For his part, Jose Escalante of Latin franchise and the theatrical movie.” (streaming) or acquired as electronic sell storyline with plenty of action, sub-plots, Media Corporation will present his through (EST) as a download. Julia Pistor, a producer of HIT Movies and in the case of Horrid Henry, lots of at HIT Entertainment, added, “Moving opportunities for visual comedy.” If UV sounds like science fiction, beyond the pre-school demographic, the it’s science fact now that Warner Bros. For Pistor, the choice to go ahead with launched the first UV title, Horrible the Thomas The Tank Engine movies Bosses, in the U.S. At a MIPCOM 2011 was, “a natural decision to translate these conference, Justin Herz of Warner classic stories into a next generation fantasy Bros. predicted “by Q2 or Q3 2012, adventure film franchise.” She added, “We significantly more than 50 percent of our expect, based on the current strength of our catalogue will be available on UV.” worldwide business, that Thomas & Friends Consumers are encouraged to open the upcoming film will have global appeal.” UltraViolet accounts and, if they purchased Whatever the reasons, and despite the a UV-enabled DVD or Blu-ray title, in a many challenges, there is no doubt that, store or online, the UV rights for that right now, putting characters designed particular title are theirs simply by opening The cast of Studio 100’s House of Anubis for little people onto the big screen is a an account for free, with no credit card booming business. details required. 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MARTS & FESTS eign buyers. RCF has a total annual budget of 13 million euro, of which 30 RFF & RCF: Italian Woes percent is funded by various state agencies. In comparison, the Venice ver since Roman politicians succeeded in closing Milan’s MIFED, the Film Festival receives some 7.1 million world’s oldest film-television market, the Italian entertainment industry euro per year from the government. At Ehas been struggling to replace it with not one, but two similar events in the same time, according to Italian Rome. trade magazine Cinema&Video, the The first event is Roma Fiction Fest (RFF), now in its fifth year and under budget for the RFF was reduced from its third organizational structure. This year, it was moved to September 25-30 seven million euro in 2010 to the cur- from its traditional July dates. The second is the sixth annual Roma Cinema rent three million. Fest (RCF), to be held October 27-31. Still under the same structure, the RCF Meanwhile, despite its woes, RFF is nonetheless struggling to survive and to become meaningful, especially since has attracted a good number of buyers, RCF is competing with the much stronger American Film Market (AFM) in including executives from the U.S. and Santa Monica, California, taking place on November 2-9. A DREAM SIGNED Eastern Europe, that were invited with EGYPTIAN OASES expenses paid. According to an article in il Riformista, this year Italy’s CultureROGER Ministry FEDERER is cutting the 260,000 euro(DOCUMENTARIES) that RCF received 6 x 12’ in- 1 x2010 35’ specifically to invite for- Pictured on the left are: Mediaset (DOCUMENTARIES) 25’ Distribution’s Manuela Caputi, Ceska Televize’s acquisition exec Alena Polednakova-Blahosova, Mediaset’s Sonia Danieli and Chiara Sbarigia from the APT (organizer of this year’s event) at the opening cocktail party held at the Parco dei Principi Hotel for the business section of the event. Programs Prix Italia Stingy with U.K. Prizes

CULT TV Documentaries – 8 x 7’ / 16:9 HD ritain, which usually rakes in awards at TV festivals, did not Bfare well at the 63rd annual Prix Italia. Participants at the radio- TV festival (organized by Italian State broadcaster RAI) met in what was the first Senate chamber of the Italian Republic’s first Parliament for the pres- entation of prizes in 12 categories and many more sub-categories. The cere- Documentaries mony was held last September 23 in Current events and cultural trends in 7 minutes Turin. But to the U.K. went just one Fiction award: the Multimedia Prize for The Children Guardian newspaper’s website. Two programs won two prizes each: Tony’s Entertainment Revenge from France2 and Cease Fire from Germany’s ZDF. Classical Music Among the winners, the only pro- Jazz Pop Rock gram with solid international sales TA-PIT Children - 80 x 1’50’’ / 16:9 appeal was Inside Ireland’s Illegal Cigarette Trade by Ireland’s RTE, for which no representative showed up to receive the award. Similarly, there was no one from South Korea’s KBS to receive the award for its Don’t Cry For Me Sudan. On the other hand, Norway’s NRK sent five representa- tives to receive the award for its Operation Sea-Breeze. A full list of winners is available at The adventures of amusing and playful little characters, Prix’s website: www.PrixItalia.rai.it made of pieces of cork, bottle stoppers, paper, buttons, pins, feathers…

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SHOW NEWS Mariana, an idealist lawyer. But each character represents a capital sin. An unhappily married woman is Telefe Is The One given the opportunity to go back in rgentina’s Telefe International introduces The Man of Your time and live one year again in roman- Dreams, a comedy series following Hugo, a single father work- tic comedy A Year To Remember (pic- Aing at a matchmaking agency. Each episode includes a special tured). She’ll discover that things aren’t guest star. always what they seem. Romantic comedy When You Smile revolves around a successful pro- In weight challenge Peso x Peso, fessional whose life is turned upside down with the arrival of a son he contestants compete in physical and never knew and a father he would prefer not to know. trivia competitions. The contestants are chosen by their weight, and for the In teen comedy Superclumsy, a teenage superheroine has three goals: final challenge, the members of each To become a singer, save the world, and make her neighbor fall in love team stand on a scale and get closest to with her. Unfortunately, her plans tend to go awry. Luckily she has a the weight presented by the host. younger brother, a best friend and a nanny to help her. Sábado Bus is a general interest for- The One is a telenovela about an arrogant and ambitious lawyer who mat that features interviews with wins a trip to Spain that changes his life forever. He falls in love with celebrities over dinner and an audience participation contest in which the winner gets a car. In other news, the Italian adaptation of Telefe’s telenovela Montecristo is pre- miering this month on Italy’s Canale5. Stand RSV 14 www.telefeinternacional.com.ar Record TV Reads The Bible

razil’s Record TV Network is offering timeless tales to buyers. BThe story of Samson and Delilah follows a courageous, fearless

fighter and a beautiful and ambitious woman of a different religion. Esther, the Queen tells the tale of a beautiful Jewish woman who marries the king of Persia and saves her people from destruction. Things get messy when a group of friends pick the winning numbers to a multi-million dollar lottery in telenovela Jackpot! Before winning, the friends made a pact that each must accomplish a certain mission within one year to be entitled to the money. The Law and the Crime series focuses on violence, drugs and corrup- tion through the story of Catarina, a high-society woman who becomes police commissioner. An historic town with a beautiful landscape and popular river is the set- ting of River of Intrigues. Everything is transformed when the arrival of a mega-project turns the quiet town into an international destination. Stand 05.02 www.recordtvnetwork.com

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Azteca Runs from Destiny exico-based Azteca tugs at Telefilms’ Star-Studded Films viewers’ heartstrings and Msends chills up their spines. ome of the biggest names in synthetic skin that can withstand dam- Huérfanas (Orphans) tells the story of Hollywood can be found in age. His guinea pig is a mysterious and three aristocratic young girls who lose SArgentina-based Telefilms’ fea- volatile woman. everything when their parents die. They ture films catalogue. The relationship between the stutter- learn to survive in a harsher world, with Starring Owen Wilson, Marion ing King George VI of Britain and his the help of their nana, Santina. Cotillard, Rachel McAdams and Carla speech therapist is at the center of The In Cielo Rojo (Under a Red Sky), Bruni, Midnight in Paris (pictured) is a King’s Speech. The film, which won Alma and Andres are meant for each Woody Allen-directed romantic comedy four Academy Awards, including the other, but always seem to be pulled that explores a young man’s great love for Oscar for Best Picture, stars Colin Firth, apart. Can prison, distance and new pharmaceutical business Vitalab. Plus, a the City of Light. Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey lovers really keep them away from their love story unfolds in Bajo el Alma After losing his job, an affable middle- Rush. true love? (Within My Soul). In sci-fi thriller Source Code, an aged man named Larry Crowne (played Emperatriz Jurado is betrayed by her Thriller series Al Caer La Noche American soldier (played by Jake by Tom Hanks) goes back to college to former lover, and her newborn daughter (When Night Falls) explores hidden Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of a start over. While there, he develops a is stolen from her. She swears to take dangers that come to life when most of man who is the victim of a train bomb- crush on his teacher (Julia Roberts). revenge in Emperatriz (Empress) (pic- us are asleep. ing. He must relive the experience to La Piel Que Habito (The Skin That I tured). An old conspiracy and the trials faced determine who is responsible for it. Live In) is the latest from Spanish direc- A retired wrestler named Lucho by an elite police force investigator are at Stand 09.05 tor Pedro Almodovar. A brilliant plastic returns to the ring to support his family the center of thriller series Drenaje www.telefilms.com.ar surgeon haunted by tragedy creates a in comedy series Lucho en Familia. Profundo (Drowning City). The Cavazos family must deal with Stand LR2.06 Lots of Passion the troubles that have befallen their www.comarex.tv at Telemundo Latin Media’s elemundo Internacional’s roster is spearheaded by telenovela La Temptations TCasa de al Lado. The Conde family enjoys a privileged existence, iami-based Latin Media another shot at life. but strange deaths have occurred in Corporation is at MIPCOM Ibn Battuta tells their home and illegal activity runs Mwith several new titles. the tale of the rampant in the family business. When Telenovela Pushovers, currently in famous 14th centu- lawyer Gonzalo Ibañez marries into the production, tops the company’s slate. It ry traveler, who family, he goes on a mission to uncov- follows the adventures of a group of went to North Africa, Asia Minor, India, er the truth. men who, after being laid off from their Mesopotamia and China. The series takes After they elope against their fami- jobs, turn to a life of crime — with viewers along for the ride in 3D anima- lies’ wishes, Lola and Andres are sent to life over a 12-year period, until she takes sometimes hilarious results. tion. prison and military school in Mi the reigns of a worldwide drug traffick- Also on the telenovela roster is First Jose Escalante (pictured above) and Corazón Insiste En Lolca Volcán. ing empire. Lady. Born poor, Sabina Astudillo Farid K. Ahmad are on hand at the When Lola gets out of prison, she ends Telemundo Internacional also presents moves to the capital city with one objec- Malaysian pavilion. up marrying four men who all die bilingual lifestyle cable channel for tive: to become the president’s wife. Stand 5.19 shortly after the wedding. Will Lola’s young viewers, mun2. Content includes She’ll do anything she has to — lie, www.latinmediacorp.net pride and determination keep her from RPM Miami, Beauties & The Boss, manipulate and cheat — to meet her reuniting with Andres, her true love? Jenni Rivera Presents Chiquis & Raq- goal. After the death of her mother and C, Los Twiins, The mun2 Hook Up Dr. Adam Jamil finds his loyalty test- brother and her father’s abandonment, and The Chicas Project. ed in a love triangle with his own son in Amanda Monteverde is determined to Also available are telenovelas El telenovela Temptations of Love. do whatever it takes to protect her Laberinto de Alicia, revolving around a The first season of heartwarming three younger sisters in Flor Salvaje. school counselor who is believed unsta- series Life after Life takes place in the After her drug lord boyfriend is ble and Témpano, taking place on a prestigious Nataniel Cox Hospital and killed, Teresa Mendoza, goes on the cruise ship headed toward Patagonia. follows the doctors, technicians, sur- run, hiding out all over the world. La Stand A.021 geons, lawyers and prosecutors who Reina del Sur (pictured) follows her www.telemundointernacional.com work to give people transplants and

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Televisa Runs A Double Life

ove is all around at Televisa Venevision’s Got a Big Corazon Internacional. Ana Paula is a nurse Lwho finds herself forced to marry ove, jealousy and revenge are at Eva Luna’s life is turned upside down her wheelchair-bound patient in The the center of Venevision when she suspects her lover of killing her One Who Couldn’t Love (pictured). LInternational’s new and returning father in a hit-and-run accident. But Her life becomes difficult and the peo- telenovelas. Patricia is a young woman there are sinister forces leading her to ple around her become greedy, all while who grows up with her strong and believe this lie, and the motive is love. she pines for the true love her life. demanding grandmother, a wealthy Six totally different women have one After her husband disappears and is landowner. When Patricia falls in love thing in common — the desire to be proclaimed dead, Angélica Estrada with a man that doesn’t live up to her perfect. From extreme dieting to Botox remarries. But when her husband grandmother’s standards, she must pay to plastic surgery, the women in telenov- returns, she finds herself married to two friends. Isabel’s love life has been cursed, the consequences in Corazón ela La Mujer Perfecta will do anything men. That story is interwoven with the Zoe is a former housewife who seduces Apasionada. to look good. tale of Cristóbal Lagos, a family man every man she meets, and Lucía is a Natalia and Luis have been in love XRC delivers adrenaline-filled news who’s living a Double Life. woman on track to become a nun before since childhood in Natalia del Mar (pic- footage, with over 400 hours of high- After the death of her wealthy hus- falling in love with a gigolo. Hilarity tured). They refuse to let their social dif- speed car chases, crashes, cliff-hanging band, Ángela must move into a poor ensues in comedy series Darling ferences get in the way of their love, but rescue and more. neighborhood with her daughter Lisa. Sweetheart. a secret from the past changes everything Viewers get to see the world in She meets a handsome ecologist whose Pequeños Gigantes is a talent compe- in this telenovela. Descubre tu mundo. son is a pop star whom her daughter will tition format in which children ages Love story and police thriller combine Stand 14.02 fall in love with. Ángela also meets her four through 12 entertain through in La Viuda Joven. www.venevisioninternational.com ex-mother-in-law’s butler and his wild dance, song and charm. family in Hoping Heart. Stand RSV 02 Caracol Keeps Zoe, Isabel and Lucía are close www.televisainternacional.tv Its Promises olombia’s Caracol presents a Cisneros Gets Top Biz Tag program slate topped by driana Cisneros de Griffin, vice chairman and vice president of Strategy Broken Promises (La C for the Venezuelan-based Cisneros Group of Companies, was named Promesa), the story of three women — one of Latin America’s Top 50 Business Women by the editorial staff of Ana, Seleni and Frida — who are vic- A the Latin Business Chronicle, part of the Latin Trade Group. The Cisneros Group tims of human trafficking. They learn operates TV networks and Venevision International, a Miami, Florida-based TV that love is the key to escaping their distribution company. torturous situations (pictured). In 1998, Cisneros de Griffin’s father, Gustavo Cisneros, chairman of the After being framed for a crime he Cisneros Group, received an LT BRAVO Business Award as “International CEO didn’t commit, the only job Emilio can of the Year” from the Latin Trade Group. find is that of a personal assistant. In Cisneros de Griffin is a third-generation leader of the Cisneros Group, a pri- comedic telenovela The Secretary (El vately owned media, entertainment, telecommunications and consumer prod- Secretario), he must learn to fit in with ucts organization. Her grandfather, Diego Cisneros, founded the Cisneros his fellow assistants and cope with his Group of Companies in the burgeoning love for his engaged boss. drivers, and the characters they meet 1920s. The GIC is an elite police group along the way. Cisneros de Griffin also assigned to special cases in series Love and Fear (Amar y Temer) tells serves as president of the Infiltrated (Infiltrados). The group the story of a woman who stages her sui- Fundación Cisneros, a non- solves crimes that involve ex-lovers, cide to escape her husband and travels to profit foundation established jealousy, and egos, complicating things Bogotá pretending to be a man. As by her parents to enhance edu- even further. Alberto, she enrolls in law school, and cation throughout Latin In The Witch (La Bruja), a teacher falls in love with a boxer. America, and to raise awareness named Amanda learns that she has Sara and Pablo are a couple of mar- of Latin American’s contribu- supernatural powers. She uses them to riage counselors facing their own prob- tions to world culture. acquire power and change the political lems in Couple’s Therapy (Terapias de Pictured are Latin Trade course of her country. Pareja). Group’s Rosemary Winters, Yellow Team (Los Canarios) takes a Stand 09.24 Adriana Cisneros de Griffin, LTG’s Joachim Bamrud and Mercedes Fernandez. comical look at the lives of five taxi www.caracolinternacional.com

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Incendo Is Stealing Paradise Starz Has Magic Up Its Sleeve ncendo comes equipped with a number of thriller films. When her part- Allison is devastated after her tarz Media has a wide variety of to keep the peace and help Susan, Jake Iner is brutally murdered, an obstetri- boyfriend is murdered by an intruder. series, thrillers and films on offer. and their five kids enjoy the holiday in cian scrambles to save her own life after But she’s forced to Look Again when she SIn the Magic City nothing is what feature Christmas Wedding Tail. discovering that she’s the next victim in begins to suspect that her best friend’s it seems: On New Year’s Eve 1958-59, Amanda and Jason are devastated Deadly Hope. new boyfriend is the culprit. 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FOCUS ON ITALY monetize the large news, special reports and documentaries that the You RaiNews Is Gaining Viewership, Frustration channel has accumulated over the years, since he doesn’t have a market- orradino Mineo, director of Italy’s RaiNews, the Rome-based 24/7 news TV service, is frustrated by the drawbacks ing unit. “We don’t even have our own never take imposed on his channel by its parent company, state broadcaster RAI. According to Mineo, the channel, which can now budget,” he said, “we have to get by Cbe seen worldwide, would be set to start broadcasting in English and with whatever RAI gives us.” Arabic, and not just Italian, by the coming spring if RAI released the necessary Finally, Mineo said he would like to a shower funds. RaiNews would join other major state broadcasters such as France’s have more control over advertising, France 24, Germany’s DW, Japan’s NHK and many others, which also broad- which right now is handled as an after- thought by RAI’s house ad agency, cast in English. In terms of added international coverage, Giovanni Celsi of RaiWorld, RAI’s SIPRA. in a family division for world distribution, announced that in Canada, the news channel is Despite its challenges, RaiNews is now carried by Rogers Cable Systems. considered Italy’s best news service, and In a frank interview, Mineo (pictured on the right with Giovanni Celsi) men- is available via digital TV broadcast, owned motel? tioned that he cannot even control the news channel’s website, and is therefore satellite, cable, IPTV and streaming. unable to create synergies. Another sore point is that he is unable to properly VIDEOAGE AFM Latin America 270x360.pdf 1 2011-09-28 13.38.47 Rights Do Wrong To Rai Int’l

ccording to Daniele M. Renzoni, director of Rai AInternational (pictured below with RaiWorld’s Giovanni Celsi), the La edición Latina de VideoAge radio-TV channel for Italians worldwide, his main challenge in preparing the TV channel schedule has to do con la previa de NATPE with international rights. Indeed, many Italian performers won’t release the rights outside Italy, preventing La edición de diciembre de Renzoni from selecting popular pro- VideoAge pondrá su foco enteramente en la TV Latinoamericana. Temas centrales: La producción

grams from other channels within the local en Latinoamérica, umbrella of Italy’s state broadcaster, RAI. Telenovelas en Miami, los latinos While 40 percent of Rai International programming consists of its own pro- en el ATF, presencia latina en ductions, Renzoni fills the rest of the schedule with the best of what other RAI channels offer, including eight MIPCOM, y latinos en el AFM news editions and one sports news edi- tion from all RAI channels, each day. From RAI’s studios in Rome, Rai Int’l sends three feeds outside Europe, distributed by RAI’s RaiWorld: one for the Americas, one for Africa and the Participe con su third for Australasia. The channel is available on all platforms, including streaming and downloads. anuncio en esta edición Renzoni mentioned that, in the case

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movies impacted his personal life. He made “several movies that [took him] away from home for long periods of time.” To ease his nerves, he rationalized Book Review these career decisions by telling himself that he needed to work because he and his family had “big expenses.” This rationali- zation serves as a reminder to the reader that for Wallach, acting was also a means to make a living. However, the memoir becomes less personal after Wallach tells of his college years, and the reader sees Eli Wallach’s Spaghetti less of Wallach’s interactions with his wife and three children and more of his film acting experiences. Wallach replaces personal stories with professional ones. Western Was Al Dente While these stories are refreshing in that Wallach is not simply name-dropping, but actually telling worthwhile stories rom this you can make a that if the series became a success, their about acting and the people behind the living?” This is the ques- children would never have to work. To characters they played (Monroe, whom tion stage/film actor Eli most, the offer would have been very he credits with earning him a role in The Wallach’s father put to tempting, but while discussing the mat- Misfits, babysat for his children on occa- him each time he spoke of ter with her husband in private, Jackson sion), the memoir might have benefited his desire to become an “wrinkled her brow, and said, ‘Why from more personal anecdotes. “Factor. But Wallach perservered, and his shouldn’t the children work?’” The two Throughout the book, Wallach draws a 2005 memoir is as charming as its title, decided against doing the series. distinction between film and stage: Film The Good, the Bad, and Me: In My Wallach uses his experiences to show is the place to be to make money and be Anecdotage (Harcourt, 312 pages, $14), how film and stage cross paths. remembered, while the stage is a place which is borrowed from the spaghetti Throughout his career, he appeared in a where great actors are remembered only western he appeared in with Clint number of plays and movies — the play by those who saw them perform. He Eastwood. credits listed in the back of this book underscores a telling difference when he The spaghetti western Wallach alludes number 27, while his film credits states, “I had a growing family, I decided to in the title is his most recognizable amount to 97. After turning down a role enough ‘art’ for a while; I was going to try film, but, as he recalled, shooting the in the film From Here To Eternity in to get rich and famous. This meant facing movie in Italy wasn’t easy. When it came order to act in the Tennessee Williams the camera.” However, Wallach was not play (the movie role later time to shoot a scene in which a bridge Camino Real without his qualms about becoming went to Frank Sinatra), Wallach made is destroyed by dynamite, Wallach and wealthy off of filmmaking. When he Eastwood were just as startled as director good on his next movie offer. played a murderer in The Lineup, Wallach Sergio Leone when the bridge exploded With Baby Doll, Wallach was finally worried that he’d “made a Faustian before the cameras started rolling. The become a teacher. After failing the teach- ready to see himself on the big screen. deal…The money seemed more impor- man responsible for the explosion ers’ exam, his sister Sylvia helped him However, he had doubts about leaving tant than the challenge of acting in a pushed the button too soon, and the secure an audition for the Neighborhood the stage for celluloid, as he recalls, worthwhile project.” For Wallach, the bridge had to be rebuilt and destroyed Playhouse theater school. Wallach was “From the time I left the army, I had theater “remains my first love.” While he again. finally on his way to becoming an actor. concentrated on stage work,” and he openly admits that “the money is better Wallach exploded onto Broadway in However, another detour came when was afraid to leave it behind. However, and the exposure is greater with film, The Rose Tattoo in 1951, and he confides Wallach was drafted as a medic in World movies proved a “magical magnet” for movies are not as much fun.” that even as a young boy growing up in War II. Even at war, the resourceful Wallach, and although he was at first Reading Wallach’s memoir, however, is Little Italy in New York, “Reenacting Wallach found a way to exercise his act- reluctant to exit the theater — even for episodes that I had seen in movies always ing muscles. Although he was forced to a short time — to try his hand at movie fun. He shares charming stories about gave me a sense of power.” Wallach’s put his pursuit of Broadway “in cold acting, he would continue to do both early relationship woes and about how he determination to act remains evident, as storage,” he and a group of men from his types of acting throughout his career, spent Christmas break in college. In addi- he continued to perform in his 80s while unit put on a play. The performance was moving from stage to screen and back tion, he enhances the book with well- battling physical pain due to arthritic such a hit that his colonel arranged for again, with transitions that weren’t placed humor that keeps the reader on his hips. However, the road to the stage was the group to perform in a number of always seamless. toes and eager to read more. For example, not without detours. other hospitals. While filming The Misfits with Clark while performing on stage for Winston The first detour came in 1932 from Wallach does a good job of describing Gable and Marilyn Monroe (both Churchill in London, Wallach noticed his brother Sam, a teacher who was the influence the new medium of televi- appearing in their last roles before their that Churchill “sat like a bulldog…and adamant that his younger siblings sion in the early 1950s. He describes tel- deaths), “Each day’s delay in completing never changed his expression.” To this should receive an education, Great evision as a “strange hybrid [because] it the film came into direct conflict with a day, he does not know whether Churchill Depression or not. Since his childhood, used the machinery of filmmaking, but contractual deal [he] had” for the “turned the damn hearing aid off or on.” Wallach’s family wasn’t enamored of his at the same time had to satisfy the Broadway production of Eugène Both industry insiders and the general desire to become an actor, so Wallach demands of networks and advertisers.” Ionesco’s Rhinoceros. Leo Kerz, the New public will be intrigued by Wallach’s book “kept silent, never mentioning [his] At that time, the “major film studios did York producer, antsy about Wallach’s and learn from his reflections on how the- dream,” and went off to school. not permit their stars…to appear in a absence, signed another actor to replace ater and film collide. The Good, the Bad, However, while in college, Wallach free medium,” leaving the door wide Wallach, asking him to “‘Tell Gable and and Me: In My Anecdotage is a worthwhile joined the Curtain Club, and he “knew open for New York stage actors. Wallach Monroe that you have to return.’” and enjoyable read for both Wallach fans then and there that this was to be [his] was intrigued by television, and after he Despite the tension, Wallach’s agent and those who never have seen him per- life’s work. Nothing — nothing — and his wife, stage actress Anne Jackson, enlisted Actors’ Equity, the actors’ form — either on stage or on camera. would deter me.” But Wallach was side- appeared on David Susskind’s Play of the union, and he was able to appear in Wallach prefers live acting to film tracked again after his 1936 college grad- Week, Susskind approached Wallach and Rhinoceros as originally scheduled. because “I come alive with the lights.” In uation, as his family tried to convince Jackson with an idea; he wanted to turn In addition to interfering with his this memoir, Eli Wallach comes alive on him to give up his dreams of the stage to Lullaby into a series, assuring the couple stage career, Wallach demonstrates how page, too. SA

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and DVD buyers anymore,” he said. In on to say that “the idea [behind UV] addition, many executives at MIPCOM fundamentally is that when a consumer AFM Movies noted that they bring more documentaries buys a movie or TV show, they’re not just to MIPCOM than they do to the AFM. getting a single digital file, they’re not just When it comes to buyers, across the getting a disc, they’re actually getting a set of rights that lets them use all of those (Continued from Cover) board the execs said that their strategies things: downloaded files, streaming and are pretty much the same at MIPCOM some of them, the product that they’re physical media. What we’re really trying and the AFM. Many of the buyers that looking for at AFM varies from what to do is bring together the best of two come to both markets have usually begun they seek at MIPCOM. different worlds that don’t exist today in talking with the executives at MIPCOM the consumer view,” he stressed. Since buyers tend to reflect consumers’ and subsequently close deals at the AFM preferences, VideoAge looked at some through follow-up calls, e-mails, and The first “world,” according to Teitell, Loews Santa Monica Hotel might raise rates is the way that physical media works. current trends to predict what might be meetings. Of the new buyers at the hot at AFM 2011. Based on Box Office and IFTA is considering moving its AFM This means that UV allows consumers AFM, many have found that there is Mojo’s 2011 consumer film-market data, headquarters to the L.A. Live Complex in to own a physical copy of a movie or downtown Los Angeles a greater Latin American and Asian the number one genre has been sequels TV show. The second is everything that (like the newest installment of Harry presence, as well as a large contingent of cloud-based access can offer, such as Potter), cornering a 40 percent market D3Telefilm has some seven new digital and home video buyers. streaming content to any device, and the share. This is followed by animation (e.g. products on offer at AFM, and Screen As a whole, the AFM, which offers the ability to back up (or save) content. Kung Fu Panda 2) with close to 18 percent; Media Ventures is launching two new opportunity to reach key broadcasters, has a titles. In the weeks leading up to the Initially, UV will be rolled out in the U.S. comedies (e.g., The Hangover Part 2), with more theatrical focus, with the large volume with movies, including the aforementioned more than 15.4 percent; superhero films AFM, Screen Media Ventures was of films on display, while MIPCOM has a working toward possibly adding three Horrible Bosses, followed by Green Lantern, (e.g. Thor), with 15.3 percent; family greater distributor presence. more titles to the list. Vision Films Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part movies (e.g. Mr. Popper’s Penguins), with 2, Friends With Benefits and The Smurfs 3.9 percent; dramas (e.g. Jane Eyre), with expected to have at least three new As Ken DuBow put it, “If you’re not features to distribute. Not to be left out, seen, you’re not remembered,” so film from Warner Bros. and Sony Pictures 2.6 percent and chick flicks (e.g. Something Entertainment. One title, Warner Bros.’s “FremantleMedia Borrowed) with 1.5 percent. The Fremantle Corporation is displaying distributors make an effort to attend new features, new mini-series, and new both markets. One Tree Hill, is slated to be the first But then, if one takes into account the episodic TV program in UV, but no Enterprises is coming co-productions, as is Starz Entertainment, Larry Goebel and his Imagination top-grossing genres from 1995 to 2011 which is releasing new titles. release date has been set yet. as furnished by The Numbers newsletter, Worldwide team, on the other hand, did So, given the fact that streamed content to NATPE 2012 ready we notice that comedies were first with At MIPCOM, Cinemavault reported that not attend MIPCOM this year for the doesn’t sit on consumers’ devices, one of the 23.97 percent market share, followed by it was looking to pick up another product first time in six years. “It was nothing issues raised at the Cannes conference was to meet the changing adventure (19.80 percent), drama (17.66 to display, but it typically doesn’t bring negative against MIPCOM. It was just — who will pay for the cost of streaming? percent), action (16.80 percent), thriller anything new to the November market. about timing. MIPCOM is four weeks The consensus was that retailers would (7.85 percent), romance (5.93 percent), Similarly, RHI planned to bring the same market. Whether it be before the AFM, when we’re in the carry the cost, and then use that relationship horror (4.78 percent) and documentary products to AFM as it did to MIPCOM. process of acquiring films. We’re just not Although Echo Bridge Entertainment to sell the consumer other audiovisual (1.1 percent). ready to announce things yet,” he said. helping brands find their didn’t plan to launch anything new when products; although Herz commented, “to Goebel also stressed that MIPCOM’s Of course, there is another way to judge a VideoAge questioned them at MIPCOM, date the industry has done a terrible job of consumers, IP owners find movie, and that is its return on investment there will be screenings of footage and IFTA stand is a very cost-effective way introducing the consumer to digital.” He (ROI), a factor dear to all producers and premieres of two new products. for independents to exhibit, and is stressed, “It is very important that this cost distributors. For example, according to keeping his mind open as to whether funding or new-platforms Jonathan Wolf, executive vice president is not borne by the consumer.” But, with the newsletter Financial Edge, the best he’ll exhibit at MIP-TV in the spring. and managing director of the AFM (run streaming currently priced at around $0.06 ROI comes from the horror and thriller per GB, and an average movie requiring find the best content, we genres. This is followed by documentaries, by IFTA), said he doesn’t worry that Besides the market’s proximity to AFM and MIPCOM compete. “Buyers MIPCOM, another potential problem just 1.4 GB to stream, some participants dramas, romances and comedies — while considered the importance of this issue to have solutions to help all action-adventure is last. at the AFM are discovering feature films looms ahead for the AFM with the possible long before they are ever introduced at move in 2013 from the attractive Santa be too overstated. Here’s what the execs VideoAge MIPCOM or any other TV Market.” It’s Monica Loews Hotel to the unappealing EST has profit margins that are much our various partners surveyed had to say about the genres in those in the market for films-for-TV that L.A. Live Complex in downtown Los higher than a DVD sale (which averages 65 demand at AFM: There is an “endless make it worth film distributors’ time and Angeles. The move is reportedly due to percent) because there are no manufacturing around the world.” demand for horror movies,” said Classic money to attend MIPCOM. costs. At the same time, UV allows studios Media’s Doug Schwalbe. Larry Goebel increased costs at the Loews, but, for To Opus’ DuBow, “MIPCOM is the now, the official position is that there to keep a sort of “stable instability” with DAVID ELLENDER of Imagination Worldwide concurred: their middlemen. But, history has proven “We’ve had a lot of success with thrillers singular best television market of the isn’t an official position. year. It’s broadcast-oriented, but you see that consortiums like UV have rocky and well-done, well-marketed horror corporate structures, as the Hulu experience films.” He added, “Horror tends to come DVD buyers at MIPCOM, too. We are demonstrates. With close to 27 million in cycles. There’s always a market for it, now doing better with digital than with viewers per month, Hulu can be considered but sometimes it’s better than others. It’s broadcast. The money has flip-flopped. a success, however its ownership structure not like way back, in the ’80s and ’90s, [MIPCOM’s] Reed Midem is incredible (Disney, News Corp. and Comcast/NBC when you’d see a video distributor from at attracting cutting-edge buyers, and there The UV Cloud Universal) created conflicts of interest that Germany with four different labels — are tons of digital buyers there,” he said. have prevented Hulu from growing. horror, thriller, family, how-to. There are Tomas Darcyl of Argentina’s Telefilms fewer distributors, releasing less product, sees the market as an opportunity to sell (Continued from Page 4) Despite the launch of UV in the U.S., with more of an emphasis on quality.” and buy films. “[MIPCOM] is for us, on Teitell declined to state how and at what A majority of the companies that one hand, a sales market, since we will Once consumers have created UV level UV would be priced to the consumer, attended MIPCOM are presenting new meet our most important clients and, on accounts, they can watch movies and TV insisting, “That is a matter for the content shows anywhere in the world from a content in Santa Monica. Yet, a lot of the other hand, an event that gives us the supplier and their retail partner.” He added, wide variety of devices (up to 12 devices similar products can be found on the table opportunity to purchase ‘made for TV’ “My expectation is we’ll actually see [as can be registered to their accounts), since at both markets. Among the companies movies that, if well chosen and with good with] everything else, experimentation.” they own the UV rights to the purchased bringing different product to AFM is quality production, can give excellent Significantly, Disney and Disney’s content. Plus, up to five family members Opus Distribution. The company’s Ken rating results to all free TV channels in the shareholder Apple are not part of the can be registered on a single household DuBow noted that they’re hopping on the [Latin America] region.” consortium, and in October 2009, The account. horror movie bandwagon. DuBow’s Opus But Doug Schwalbe of Classic Media Walt Disney Company announced that NATPE, January 23-25, 2012 Fontainebleau Resort, Miami Beach is one of the film companies that opted tells us he leaves the film sales to the According to Mark Teitell, general it was developing a competing service not to exhibit under the IFTA umbrella AFM, and focuses on TV series only at manager of DECE/UltraViolet, the called Keychest. However, members of at MIPCOM. “The umbrella stand is an MIPCOM. “We’re less likely to bring TV “alliance came together because they the UV panel at MIPCOM were quick to www.natpemarket.com excellent deal for people, but my problem movies until we see how the new model in thought [current] digital distribution point out that although consumers can’t is that the tables are set very close together. home entertainment is going to work for so far hasn’t been working well for purchase UV content from iTunes, they Use promo code N12VAI for $750 registration rate (does not include membership) It’s an issue of discomfort for buyers, so [I TV movies. We really need networks to the consumer or the industry.” At the will be able to stream content to Apple went for] a full-sized stand,” he said. finance them, and we can’t count on video MIPCOM conference, Teitell went devices, such as iPads.

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Many of the buyers that looking for at AFM varies from what to do is bring together the best of two come to both markets have usually begun they seek at MIPCOM. different worlds that don’t exist today in talking with the executives at MIPCOM the consumer view,” he stressed. Since buyers tend to reflect consumers’ and subsequently close deals at the AFM preferences, VideoAge looked at some through follow-up calls, e-mails, and The first “world,” according to Teitell, Loews Santa Monica Hotel might raise rates is the way that physical media works. current trends to predict what might be meetings. Of the new buyers at the hot at AFM 2011. Based on Box Office and IFTA is considering moving its AFM This means that UV allows consumers AFM, many have found that there is Mojo’s 2011 consumer film-market data, headquarters to the L.A. Live Complex in to own a physical copy of a movie or downtown Los Angeles a greater Latin American and Asian the number one genre has been sequels TV show. The second is everything that (like the newest installment of Harry presence, as well as a large contingent of cloud-based access can offer, such as Potter), cornering a 40 percent market D3Telefilm has some seven new digital and home video buyers. streaming content to any device, and the share. This is followed by animation (e.g. products on offer at AFM, and Screen As a whole, the AFM, which offers the ability to back up (or save) content. Kung Fu Panda 2) with close to 18 percent; Media Ventures is launching two new opportunity to reach key broadcasters, has a titles. In the weeks leading up to the Initially, UV will be rolled out in the U.S. comedies (e.g., The Hangover Part 2), with more theatrical focus, with the large volume with movies, including the aforementioned more than 15.4 percent; superhero films AFM, Screen Media Ventures was of films on display, while MIPCOM has a working toward possibly adding three Horrible Bosses, followed by Green Lantern, (e.g. Thor), with 15.3 percent; family greater distributor presence. more titles to the list. Vision Films Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part movies (e.g. Mr. Popper’s Penguins), with 2, Friends With Benefits and The Smurfs 3.9 percent; dramas (e.g. Jane Eyre), with expected to have at least three new As Ken DuBow put it, “If you’re not features to distribute. Not to be left out, seen, you’re not remembered,” so film from Warner Bros. and Sony Pictures 2.6 percent and chick flicks (e.g. Something Entertainment. One title, Warner Bros.’s Borrowed) with 1.5 percent. The Fremantle Corporation is displaying distributors make an effort to attend new features, new mini-series, and new both markets. One Tree Hill, is slated to be the first But then, if one takes into account the episodic TV program in UV, but no co-productions, as is Starz Entertainment, Larry Goebel and his Imagination top-grossing genres from 1995 to 2011 which is releasing new titles. release date has been set yet. as furnished by The Numbers newsletter, Worldwide team, on the other hand, did So, given the fact that streamed content we notice that comedies were first with At MIPCOM, Cinemavault reported that not attend MIPCOM this year for the doesn’t sit on consumers’ devices, one of the 23.97 percent market share, followed by it was looking to pick up another product first time in six years. “It was nothing issues raised at the Cannes conference was adventure (19.80 percent), drama (17.66 to display, but it typically doesn’t bring negative against MIPCOM. It was just — who will pay for the cost of streaming? percent), action (16.80 percent), thriller anything new to the November market. about timing. MIPCOM is four weeks The consensus was that retailers would (7.85 percent), romance (5.93 percent), Similarly, RHI planned to bring the same before the AFM, when we’re in the carry the cost, and then use that relationship horror (4.78 percent) and documentary products to AFM as it did to MIPCOM. process of acquiring films. We’re just not Although Echo Bridge Entertainment to sell the consumer other audiovisual (1.1 percent). ready to announce things yet,” he said. didn’t plan to launch anything new when products; although Herz commented, “to Goebel also stressed that MIPCOM’s Of course, there is another way to judge a VideoAge questioned them at MIPCOM, date the industry has done a terrible job of movie, and that is its return on investment there will be screenings of footage and IFTA stand is a very cost-effective way introducing the consumer to digital.” He (ROI), a factor dear to all producers and premieres of two new products. for independents to exhibit, and is stressed, “It is very important that this cost distributors. For example, according to keeping his mind open as to whether Jonathan Wolf, executive vice president is not borne by the consumer.” But, with the newsletter Financial Edge, the best he’ll exhibit at MIP-TV in the spring. and managing director of the AFM (run streaming currently priced at around $0.06 ROI comes from the horror and thriller per GB, and an average movie requiring genres. This is followed by documentaries, by IFTA), said he doesn’t worry that Besides the market’s proximity to AFM and MIPCOM compete. “Buyers MIPCOM, another potential problem just 1.4 GB to stream, some participants dramas, romances and comedies — while considered the importance of this issue to action-adventure is last. at the AFM are discovering feature films looms ahead for the AFM with the possible long before they are ever introduced at move in 2013 from the attractive Santa be too overstated. Here’s what the execs VideoAge MIPCOM or any other TV Market.” It’s Monica Loews Hotel to the unappealing EST has profit margins that are much surveyed had to say about the genres in those in the market for films-for-TV that L.A. Live Complex in downtown Los higher than a DVD sale (which averages 65 demand at AFM: There is an “endless make it worth film distributors’ time and Angeles. The move is reportedly due to percent) because there are no manufacturing demand for horror movies,” said Classic money to attend MIPCOM. costs. At the same time, UV allows studios Media’s Doug Schwalbe. Larry Goebel increased costs at the Loews, but, for To Opus’ DuBow, “MIPCOM is the now, the official position is that there to keep a sort of “stable instability” with of Imagination Worldwide concurred: their middlemen. But, history has proven “We’ve had a lot of success with thrillers singular best television market of the isn’t an official position. year. It’s broadcast-oriented, but you see that consortiums like UV have rocky and well-done, well-marketed horror corporate structures, as the Hulu experience films.” He added, “Horror tends to come DVD buyers at MIPCOM, too. We are demonstrates. With close to 27 million in cycles. There’s always a market for it, now doing better with digital than with viewers per month, Hulu can be considered but sometimes it’s better than others. It’s broadcast. The money has flip-flopped. a success, however its ownership structure not like way back, in the ’80s and ’90s, [MIPCOM’s] Reed Midem is incredible (Disney, News Corp. and Comcast/NBC when you’d see a video distributor from at attracting cutting-edge buyers, and there The UV Cloud Universal) created conflicts of interest that Germany with four different labels — are tons of digital buyers there,” he said. have prevented Hulu from growing. horror, thriller, family, how-to. There are Tomas Darcyl of Argentina’s Telefilms fewer distributors, releasing less product, sees the market as an opportunity to sell (Continued from Page 4) Despite the launch of UV in the U.S., with more of an emphasis on quality.” and buy films. “[MIPCOM] is for us, on Teitell declined to state how and at what A majority of the companies that one hand, a sales market, since we will Once consumers have created UV level UV would be priced to the consumer, attended MIPCOM are presenting new meet our most important clients and, on accounts, they can watch movies and TV insisting, “That is a matter for the content shows anywhere in the world from a content in Santa Monica. Yet, a lot of the other hand, an event that gives us the supplier and their retail partner.” He added, wide variety of devices (up to 12 devices similar products can be found on the table opportunity to purchase ‘made for TV’ “My expectation is we’ll actually see [as can be registered to their accounts), since at both markets. Among the companies movies that, if well chosen and with good with] everything else, experimentation.” they own the UV rights to the purchased bringing different product to AFM is quality production, can give excellent Significantly, Disney and Disney’s content. Plus, up to five family members Opus Distribution. The company’s Ken rating results to all free TV channels in the shareholder Apple are not part of the can be registered on a single household DuBow noted that they’re hopping on the [Latin America] region.” consortium, and in October 2009, The account. horror movie bandwagon. DuBow’s Opus But Doug Schwalbe of Classic Media Walt Disney Company announced that is one of the film companies that opted tells us he leaves the film sales to the According to Mark Teitell, general it was developing a competing service not to exhibit under the IFTA umbrella AFM, and focuses on TV series only at manager of DECE/UltraViolet, the called Keychest. However, members of at MIPCOM. “The umbrella stand is an MIPCOM. “We’re less likely to bring TV “alliance came together because they the UV panel at MIPCOM were quick to excellent deal for people, but my problem movies until we see how the new model in thought [current] digital distribution point out that although consumers can’t is that the tables are set very close together. home entertainment is going to work for so far hasn’t been working well for purchase UV content from iTunes, they It’s an issue of discomfort for buyers, so [I TV movies. We really need networks to the consumer or the industry.” At the will be able to stream content to Apple went for] a full-sized stand,” he said. finance them, and we can’t count on video MIPCOM conference, Teitell went devices, such as iPads.

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never realized how complex simplicity can be. Take the fashion industry, for example. It spends billions and involves the best minds just to give the illusion that style is simple. Indeed, the simple life takes a lot of work. Ditto for the car AT THE industry where “simplicity” is everything. Indeed, cars are now so simple to oper- ate that they can even park themselves. The downside is that to repair new cars, AFM 2011 MIT engineers are needed, while before any high school dropout could do it. IBut, the mother of all simplicity is the financial sector, where people put their sav- ings in complex derivatives, with the illusion that it is a simple way to make money. “In the Now, before researching for this editorial, I didn’t realize that in most of the afore- EDITOR mentioned statements, I’m actually paraphrasing someone. television sector DOM SERAFINI Someone like John Maeda, president of the Rhode Island School of Design who in 2006 wrote a book published by MIT, The Law of Simplicity. Before that, in 1996, simplicity is EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS there was another MIT book in the same vein, The Sciences of the Artificial, by the late Carnegie Mellon University professor Herbert Simon. hard to SARA ALESSI But, when talking about simplicity, one could go back as far as the 1200s with St. LUCY COHEN BLATTER Thomas Aquinas who stated, “God is infinitely simple.” BOB JENKINS In his book, Prof. Simon touches on the general assumption that, in reality, simplic- implement KIERSTEN MORSANUTTO ity is very complicated. Prof. Maeda’s book, on the other hand, focuses mostly on technology –– with DVD players having too many menus, and instruction booklets as big because of its LEVI SHAPIRO as telephone directories. ERIN SOMERS As far as Maeda is concerned, most of his book could have been referred to simply as stubbornly MARIA ZUPPELLO the urgent “need for standardization.” Indeed, when the “Industry of Obsolesce” decided to finance politicians’ campaigns so that they would remove standards (aka, rules), complex everything that was then simple and durable became complicated and disposable. CORPORATE AND So, nowadays simplicity seems to be simply everywhere…But it’s an illusion that, as business CIRCULATION OFFICE Prof. Simon stated, only masks complexity. And the television industry is not an excep- 216 EAST 75TH STREET tion. Perhaps — and unfortunately — television operates in the old paradigm that model.” NEW YORK, NY 10021 complexity is the way of the future. Even though simplicity tends to be easy to explain, in the television industry it is TEL: (212) 288-3933 hard to implement because of its stubbornly complex business model. 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Fairy tales are good when business is strong Proven tales are needed in a weak marketplace