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THE BUSINESS JOURNAL OF FILM, BROADCASTING, BROADBAND, PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION November 2017 - VOL. 37 NO. 5A - $9.75 INTERN A T ION A L www.VideoAge.org MIPCOM Review: DISCOP Johannesburg In New Larger Sales, challenges on the Croisette Dollars, Cents and Rands Venue For Page 4 his year, DISCOP Africa will MIP Cancun take place from October Strategy, reasons T25 to 27 to avoid conflict with the American Film Market for B-movies release (AFM), which is being held October schedules 31-November 7. Last year, the Johannesburg market took place Page 6 at the same time as the Hollywood event, starting on November 2. But this time the conflict is with New shows being MIPCOM, which ends just six days our editions of MIP Cancun shown at DISCOP and earlier and barely leaves any time and three different (and MIP Cancun for executives to travel back to their for the Sub-Saharan African Flarger) venues later, it’s clear offices before heading to South entertainment content industry. that the fast-growing Mexican TV Page 8 Africa. We announced the move last year, market organized by Reed MIDEM and at that time MIPCOM had not According to Patrick Zuchowicki, is expanding. The new venue for My2¢: Yesterday’s general manager of Basic Lead, announced that they were going the fourth annual event, to be held the Los Angeles and Paris, France- to permanently move their dates stress is different based DISCOP Africa organizer, from the first week of October to November 15 to 17, 2017, is now the than today’s “AFM is an important event the third week of October.” Moon Palace Resort. The resort, Page 18 (Continued on Page 12) (Continued on Page 10) ATF Promises Stronger Seminars, More Sideshows ommunication with Asia TV Forum and Market (ATF) Corganizers inevitably leads to an emphasis on the event’s seminars and conference elements rather than the TV trade show portion. But in an interview with Yeow Hui Leng, senior project director of ATF Asia and ScreenSingapore at Reed Exhibitions, VideoAge managed to get some insight into the market, too. Taking place November 28 to December 1, 2017, the 18th annual edition of the four-day event (three days of which are reserved for the market), will be held as usual (Continued on Page 14) The Africa Channel broadcasts in North America and the Caribbean and showcases contemporary Africa through outstanding television series, specials, documentaries, feature films, music and lifestyle programs. TAC Studios, a division of The Africa Channel, Inc., develops, THREE COMPANIES produces and distributes original and acquired premium multicultural lifestyle content globally. ONE MISSION Celebrating Africa’s Influence on the World Visit us at: MIPCOM 2017 (Cannes): Booth # R7.M2 Demand Africa, a division of The Africa Channel, Inc., DISCOP 2017 (Johannesburg): streams TV series, movies and entertainment Booth # 141.142.148.149 designed for our users online, in-home or on-the-go. www.theafricachannel.com The Africa Channel broadcasts in North America and the Caribbean and showcases contemporary Africa through outstanding television series, specials, documentaries, feature films, music and lifestyle programs. TAC Studios, a division of The Africa Channel, Inc., develops, THREE COMPANIES produces and distributes original and acquired premium multicultural lifestyle content globally. ONE MISSION Celebrating Africa’s Influence on the World Visit us at: MIPCOM 2017 (Cannes): Booth # R7.M2 Demand Africa, a division of The Africa Channel, Inc., DISCOP 2017 (Johannesburg): streams TV series, movies and entertainment Booth # 141.142.148.149 designed for our users online, in-home or on-the-go. www.theafricachannel.com World November 2017 European Digital Single Market A Busy MIPCOM 2017 With Peak TV, Peak and the usual villain (Netflix). On Monday, the starting day, All3media hosted a License Sales and Challenges Galore luncheon for celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, while A+E he prediction of a whirlwind of activities has already come true on October 15, the day before MIPCOM opened sponsored the Women in Global its doors, with a Rainbow party celebrating the launch of its new preschool series 44 Cats, and the TV Azteca Entertainment Luncheon. In the T25th Anniversary Gala. evening, FOX Networks Group gave a party for new series Deep Plus, and for the second year in a row, Sony Pictures Entertainment State, and the opening MIPCOM showcased its latest drama series during the MIPCOM Pre-Opening World reception took place at the Premiere Screening. Honored with that primo spot was Counterpart, an Martinez Hotel. espionage series about a mysterious world hidden beneath the surface of our everyday existence. The screening, that took place in the Palais, was open Continuing with the to all participants and was followed by a panel discussion with the cast and culinary vein, Banijay hosted a producer of the show, and followed by a cocktail reception in the lobby area. luncheon for its The Restaurant series on Tuesday, and A+E And this was just on Sunday. At this MIPCOM, participants were prepared threw a party on the beach for to deal with the whole enchilada: Consolidation, Peak TV, Disruption, the its Michael Jackson Show, at the same time as Banijay’s late night party for Juda and Inter Medya’s 25th Anniversary bash. On Wednesday, MIPCOM featured one of the most important conferences of the event, “European Digital Single Market.” The day’s activities had its highlight with the Personality of the Year Gala, this year awarded to Discovery’s president and CEO, David M. Zaslav. In terms of overall participation, the market registered 1,967 exhibitors, and, as far as new content was concerned, it is estimated that over 500 brand-new TV series were available for sale, leaving little or no money on the yearly budgets for acquisitions to be secured at the other 10 film-TV markets scheduled for October and November. A noticeable trend this year is that participants arrived earlier – some as early as Friday – but also left earlier, some as early as Wednesday, October 18, the market’s third day, which means that, in effect, the entire event is but a two-day market for them. However, the fact that they arrived earlier was indicative of pre-market business activities, so one would assume that deals did indeed get made. In addition, the registration bag, which wasn’t sponsored this year, was not nearly as practical as last year’s Japan- sponsored MIPCOM bag, which was great for carrying things around. Plus, the market didn’t have a “Country of Honor” this year, something that had become the norm in recent Held in conjunction with: An event of: Produced by: Supported by: Logistics partner: Held in: years. Finally, the market seems to be running out of space, with some distribution companies housed at the buyers’ club (e.g., FilmRise) in the Palais, and others next to the registration area by the port (e.g., IMG). 4 Live: 25 Trim: 27 Bleed: 28.0 Book Review November 2017 FOR THE LOVE OF TV MOVIES Opening Wednesday at a Theater or Drive- In Near You: Forgotten Films of the ‘70s ACADEMY AWARD® AND TONY® AWARD WINNER hen speaking about U.S. movie touched on, let alone the plots of those films. classics from the 1970s, no But there are also essays on movies like Eyes of CATHERINE ZETA-JONES conversation would be complete Laura Mars, a 1978 thriller starring Faye Dunaway STARRING IN without mentions of Prime Cut, as a fashion photographer who starts seeing COCAINE GODMOTHER Cisco Pike, Ulzana’s Raid, Two- real-time visions of her friends being murdered WLane Blacktop and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo through the eyes of their killer. “At the moment Garcia, right? Wrong, of course. Few people have each murder is occurring,” writes Taylor, “Laura ever even heard of these B-movies, much less sees the crimes through the killer’s eyes. In effect, would call them classics. But in a series of essays she becomes blind, her field of vision replaced in Opening Wednesday at a Theater or Drive-In by the killer’s. This psychic kinship makes her Near You (Bloomsbury, 2017, 197 pages, U.S. $27), a helpless witness to the grisly killings of her author Charles Taylor treats these forgettable friends and associates. And since the audience trifles — which often came and went from movie can no more control the images that appear before theaters in less than a week — as masterworks us than Laura can, we’re on her side. It’s a great that need to be revered and studied in order to device, this psychic blindness always seeming to truly understand America in the post-Watergate, hit Laura at her most vulnerable moments, as she post-Vietnam “Me Decade,” when people’s crosses a busy city street or when she’s behind the understanding of what it meant to be an American wheel of a car… This reaches a virtuosic climax was undergoing a radical change. when, at the end of the movie, the killer comes The title of the book, writes Taylor, a member after Laura, and as she tries to get away, she can of the National Society of Film Critics, who’s see only her own terrified retreating self.” taught journalism and literature at NYU and the This is the plot of a classic — or at least a Columbia School of Journalism, “refers to the cult classic. While I never heard of this movie release pattern used for horror movies, biker before, I plan to seek it out now. Taylor goes on to pictures, nudie teasers, women’s prison pictures, explain that “the movie is saying that danger is an Bleed: 37.0 Trim: 36 Trim: moonshiner sagas, phony documentaries like essential part of glamour and art… that art and 34 Live: ® In Search of Noah’s Ark, Eurosleaze exploitation sex and urban life should get our blood racing.