International Insider: AFM Incoming; ‘Doctor Who’ Disney; ‘House Of The Dragon’ Roars; Lewis Hamilton Indie
deadline.comGood afternoon Insiders, Max Goldbart here following another busy week in our world. Read on for our dissection of the biggest headlines. Market in flux: Andreas Wiseman and Zac Ntim here as The American Film Market (Nov 1-6) returns to Santa Monica as an in-person event next week after being forced online for two years due to the Covid pandemic.
AFM has always been heavy on genre and brawn and is now as much about broader LA meetings as it is about concentrated deal-making, which happens throughout the year.
There is a real sense of a market and an independent finance sector in flux as buyers and sellers recompute their businesses.
Movies are being made and there is positivity about new ways of getting them made, and about most businesses diversifying their portfolios, but questions over the role and viability of a market like AFM remain.
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