How P&A Spend Works When Marketing a Wide Theatrical Release
Prints and advertising can cost as much as the film itself — and for a studio tentpole, the marketing budget is a second production budget nobody puts in the trailer.
Film: Reviews and Industry
Pictures followed from financing and rights through production spend to release strategy, including the recoupment order deciding who gets paid first.
How Distribution Rights Sell Territory by Territory at the Markets
A film's international value is carved into country-sized pieces and auctioned in hotel suites at Cannes, Berlin and Los Angeles — each territory a separate price, contract and risk.
Film Tax Incentives Explained: What States Pay Studios to Shoot
States hand studios and producers back billions a year in transferable credits and cash rebates, and the size of the check — not the scenery — decides where most films shoot.
How Completion Bonds Protect Film Investors From a Broken Shoot
A completion guarantee is the industry's rarest product — an insurance policy that promises a finished film — and financiers will not fund an independent production without one.
How a Movie Gets Financed: Presales, Rebates and Equity Explained
Most independent films are stitched together from three or four money sources before a single frame is shot, and the order in which they stack determines who gets paid first.