STUDIO ISSUE INTERNATIONAL www.VideoAgeDaily.com Guide 2018 Who’s Screening in Los Angeles and Where Page 6 Indie DIstributors’ New Program Offerings Page 12 Hollywood Studios’ Executive Sales Teams Page 18 Key Acquisition Executives and Organizations Page 20 Ads CC2018 270x360.indd 1 5/10/18 11:16 AM 12,618 UFO SIGHTINGS. 1 GOVERNMENT COVER-UP. EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY ACADEMY AWARD® WINNER ROBERT ZEMECKIS world. the in countries other and States United the in protected LLC Networks, Television A&E of trademarks the are marks Claimed Networks. A+E ©2018 sales.aenetworks.com Ads CC2018 270x360.indd 2 5/7/18 1:13 PM VIDEOAGE L.A. Screenings 2018 May 2018 Photoplay: The Indie Scene 1 2 3 1. Ledafilms’ Moira Mc Namara, Alejandro Leda, Pedro Leda 2. A delegation of TV stations from Moldova 3. Multicom’s Irv Holender, Niloo Badie, Jesse Baritz with (center) Lain’s Julio Neri, Multicom LATAM’s John Cuddihy 4. Calinos Entertainment’s Anghelo Taylor 5. Inter Medya’s Beatriz Cea Okan and Sibel Levendoglu 6. Global Agency’s Ivan Sanchez and Ekin Gabay 7. MISTCO’s Aysegul Tuzun 4 567 8 910 8. Record TV’s Delmar Andrade 9. ATV’s Emre Gorentas, Muhammed Ziyad Varol, Muge Akar 10. A+E’s Helen Jurado and Jossie Capon 11. Party animals: Ernesto Lombardi, Ettore Botta, Tom Devlin 12. DCI’s Michael Solomon and Adeline Ferro 13. Armoza Formats’ Avi Armoza 14. Isabella Marquez partnered with NATPE’s JP Bommel to create the NATPE L.A. Screenings Independents. 11 12 13 14 3 aaa3 Photopage.indd 1 5/17/18 8:42 AM © 2018 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved. Artwork: © 2018 Showtime Networks, Inc., a CBS Company. All rights reserved. AAdsds CCC2018C2018 270x360.indd270x360.indd 4 55/16/18/16/18 44:59:59 PPMM May 2018 My 2¢ Don’t cry for U.S. entertainment consolidation, Argentina. The truth is, I never left you. All through my wild days, my mad existence, I kept my promise. Don’t keep your distance. oday, U.S. entertainment executives tend to decry the “This reminds me of the ’80s and ’90s whenen I instability and insecurity created by the new wave of worked for large U.S. market broadcast stationsns The Tconsolidation, mergers, and acquisitions. But looking and syndicators. My tenure at KTLA-TV inn renewed back at the history of the U.S. film and TV industry, the past Los Angeles began when Gene Autry was wasn’t all that rosy for the people involved then, either. the owner. Two years later it was run by an merger-mania is not affecting people at Take MGM, for example. The studio went through no investment company, and later, Tribune. fewer than 12 ownership changes in a 40-year span — that’s At TeleVentures it was a whirlwind ride the end of their career basically one every three years! with ownership by Columbia Pictures, curves, but the larger Sony, and Stephen J. Cannell. Genesis Then there’s Universal Studios, which went through five number of younger ownership changes in just 10 years, or one every two years. Entertainment was gobbled up by New people who are at the World, and eventually disbanded after And before Columbia Pictures was acquired by Sony, the beginning of their being purchased by Fox. And all this took careers. studio went through four ownership changes in 20 years, or place in less than three years’ time.” one every five years. Things are a bit different today in that thehe The late ’80s through the ’90s saw the largest number of renewed merger-mania is not affecting muchuch changes with players such as Edgar Bronfman Jr., Marvin top-level management — people who tendd to Davis, Kirk Kerkorian, Rupert Murdoch, Sumner Redstone, be at the end of their career curves — but the Brian L. Roberts, Steve Ross, and Ted Turner dominating the larger number of younger people who are at the Hollywood studio business scene. beginning of In a span of just 10 years, games their careers.s. of musical chairs among studio MAIN OFFICES As we all executives were as common as 216 EAST 75TH STREET revolving doors at hotels. Between know, consoli-soli- NEW YORK, NY 10021 TEL: (212) 288-3933 1980 and 1986, Larry Gershman, dation is bad both for the companies’ work E-MAIL: [email protected] who then served as president of WWW.VIDEOAGE.ORG MGM/UA Television Group, went forces and for the consu- WWW.VIDEOAGELATINO.COM through five different immediate mers, and it does not ne- WWW.VIDEOAGE.IT superiors. And Blair Westlake, cessarily create what Wall P.O. BOX 25282 who stepped down as chairman, Street expects it to. On the LOS ANGELES, CA 90025 Universal Television & Networks other hand, acquisitions VIALE ABRUZZI 30 20123 MILAN, ITALY Group, in 2001, went through 10 and consolidations are bosses over the course of 20 years. facts of business life in the YUKARI MEDIA YMI BLDG. 3-3-4, UCHIHIRANOMACHI unregulated marketplace Even at the more “stable” CHUO-KU, OSAKA JAPAN Paramount (which had only three that is Hollywood. Plus, as TEL: (816) 4790-2222 ownership changes since 1948), this editorial has demon- EDITOR-IN-CHIEF “You can’t ignore him. He’s going to run the strated, they also have hi- DOM SERAFINI Bruce Gordon, onetime pre- business for at least six months.” sident of Paramount International storical precedents, which EDITORIAL TEAM are particular to the busi- ISME BENNIE (CANADA) Television, had five direct supe- ENZO CHIARULLO (ITALY) riors in a 23-year period, and until ness of entertainment. LUIS POLANCO 1997, he worked under eight different managers, including Consolidation in the hotel business doesn’t reduce the CARLOS GUROVICH Michael Eisner, Rich Frank, Frank Mancuso, Martin Davis, LEAH HOCHBAUM ROSNER number of employees at each hotel. Consolidation of SUSAN HORNIK (L.A.) and Lucie Salhany. construction companies doesn’t cut the number of workers AKIKO KOBAYACHI (JAPAN) There was also a whole lot of crime going on, including at each site. Consolidation in the farm business doesn’t OMAR MÉNDEZ YURI SERAFINI a number of cases of embezzlement, like the one that eliminate farmers. These consolidations don’t even reduce DAVID SHORT (AFRICA) involved Columbia Pictures’ David Begelman in 1977 (he the corporate staff since larger companies require more MARIA ZUPPELLO (BRAZIL) later committed suicide); the arrest of Giancarlo Parretti elaborate bureaucracies. At most, these consolidations will PUBLISHER related to the acquisition of MGM; and the case of Marc increase consumer costs and reduce competition. MONICA GORGHETTO Rich, who co-owned 20th Century Fox before Murdoch, and However, the entertainment business does not have such BUSINESS OFFICE who became a fugitive from U.S. justice. LEN FINKEL advantages and privileges, and the underlying message is: And this instability wasn’t just confined to studios. “Enter at your own risk.” LEGAL OFFICE Reported Doug Friedman of KUSI-TV, San Diego, California: ROBERT ACKERMANN, Dom Serafini STEVE SCHIFFMAN WEB MANAGER BRUNO MARRACINO DESIGN/LAYOUT CARMINE RASPAOLO PREPRESS CLAUDIO MATTIONI 5 aaa18 May_2018_Issue2_R4.indd 2 5/7/18 1:35 PM VIDEOAGE L.A. 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Katigbak CARACOL INTERNATIONAL InterContinental, Suite 1230 FRECUENCIA LATINA INTERNATIONAL InterContinental, Suite 318 AIR BUD CBS STUDIOS INTERNATIONAL InterContinental, Suite 1114 InterContinental, Suite 716 FREMANTLEMEDIA Paramount Pictures: InterContinental, Suite 421 ALFRED HABER DISTRIBUTION 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood InterContinental, Suite 1214 GAUMONT TELEVISION InterContinental, Suite 927 ALL3MEDIA INTERNATIONAL InterContinental, Suite 1418 GLOBAL AGENCY Sally Habbershaw, Janel CDC UNITED NETWORK InterContinental, Suite 1521 Downing, Maria Ishak InterContinental, Suite 1224 Ivan Sanchez, Ekin Gabay AMC STUDIOS CISNEROS GLOBO TV 2425 Olympic Blvd. InterContinental, Table No. 6 InterContinental, Suite 1621 Suite 400 E, Santa Monica Rick Olshansky, Valerie CJ E&M / STUDIO DRAGON GLOW STAR Cabrera, Mark Dee Shapland InterContinental, Suite 332 InterContinental, Suite 1127 COMAREX INTER MEDYA AMERICAN CINEMA INTERNATIONAL InterContinental, Suite 621 InterContinental, Suite 1221 InterContinental, Table No. 2 Beatriz Cea Okan, Sibel Levendoglu COMERCIAL TV ARMOZA FORMATS InterContinental, Suite 518 JTBC InterContinental, Suite 1614 InterContinental, Suite 337 Avi Armoza, Karina Dolgiej DICK CLARK PRODUCTIONS 2900 Olympic Blvd., KANAL D ATV Santa Monica InterContinental, Suite 1618 InterContinental, Suite 416 Mark Rafalowski, Bob Kennedy, Kerim Emrah Turna Muhammed Ziyad Varol Paulina Eklund KBS AZTECA DISNEY MEDIA DISTRIBUTION InterContinental, Suite 338 InterContinental, Suite 316 InterContinental, Suite 1515 The Walt Disney Studios: KESHET INTERNATIONAL BBC STUDIOS 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank InterContinental, Suite 814 InterContinental, Table No. 5 KEW MEDIA BETA FILM InterContinental, Suite 414 InterContinental, Suite 321 DORI MEDIA KM DISTRIBUTION BEVERLY HILLS ENTERTAINMENT InterContinental, Suite 832 InterContinental, Suite 1011 InterContinental, Suite 921 ECCHO RIGHTS KOCCA CALINOS ENTERTAINMENT InterContinental, Suite 1414 InterContinental, Suite 333/334 InterContinental, Suite 427 Anghelo Taylor, Duda ENDEMOL SHINE GROUP LATIN MEDIA CORP Rodrigues InterContinental, Suite 1421 InterContinental, Suite 632 CANDLELIGHT MEDIA GROUP ENTERTAINMENT ONE InterContinental, Table No. 4 InterContinental, Suite 1424 (Continued on Page 10) Stuart Baxter, Dan Gopal, Noel Hedges, Xavier 6 aaa610WhoScreening2.indd 1 5/10/18 11:11 AM AAdsds CCC2018C2018 270x360.indd270x360.indd 7 55/7/18/7/18 11:14:14 PPMM Ads CC2018 270x360.indd 8 5/7/18 1:14 PM AAdsds CCC2018C2018 270x360.indd270x360.indd 9 55/7/18/7/18 11:14:14 PPMM VIDEOAGE L.A.