Newen & Studiocanal On “Bringing Back Reality” To Market After The Streamer Reset: “It’s An Adjustment Of Value” — Seriencamp
deadline.comEuropean TV distributors are weighing up the impact of the global streaming reset — and a key challenge is explaining the value of content to producers and global streamers.
In an opening Meet the Distributors session featuring French firms Newen Studios, Studiocanal, Mediawan Rights and Oble, Austria’s ORF Enterprises and Germany’s Bavaria Media here at Seriencamp in Cologne, the topic of how content is priced internationally a key theme.
Newen Studios SVP, International Acquisitions and Co-Productions Elliot Gustin said he had been approached about a European project whose first season was financed through an all-rights deal with a global streamer.
Newen’s investment was sought to fill gaps in the budget and get a second season into production, with the streamer keen to keep the show in some territories, but also unwilling to fully finance it. “It is more an adjustment of value,” he said.
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