With the continuing changes in demand for film rights, I have made changes to Horizon’s business plan with a focus on television rights licensing, executive production services for theatrical pictures, direct to VOD releases of what was previously described as “direct to video” titles and all rights distribution in Canada.
Indeed the videocassette/dvd business has turned out to be a “bubble”. The invention of the videocassette got me into the film business with Vestron from television at CBC and got me producing films like By The Sword with R. Murray Abraham and Managua with Louis Gossett Jr. and I am thankful for that – but time to move to the next opportunity.
The safest way to avoid piracy is to produce and sell directly to tv , release home entertainment titles directly to VOD and make damn sure your theatrical pictures are indeed that – something that people will go to see in the theatre and thereby make up for the losses due to piracy with the increased value of TV and legitimate VOD.
Film markets are for the theatrical films and the TV markets for tv product and I will reduce my attendance at these in order to increase the return to my filmmakers by reducing distribution expenses. It is time to reduce the carbon footprint of film and television distribution in any case.
So to my good customers and interested parties, you will hear from me in the electronic medium and attendance at Cannes, the Toronto International Film Festival, Whistler, Banff and MIP.
I will be approaching international theatrical distributors as an executive producer, not as an agent, and look forward to talking to those of you who share my vision of what makes a picture theatrical.
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