Vue CEO Tim Richards On The Company’s “Accelerated” Move Into Distribution, Using AI To Programme Films & The Narrowing Gap Between Multiplex And Art House Cinemas — Cannes
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Vue founder and CEO Tim Richards caused a stir last month with an intriguing appearance in front of the UK Parliament’s British Film & High-End TV Inquiry.
Launched by the influential Culture, Media and Sport Committee, the bipartisan inquiry has spent weeks interviewing industry figures as part of an investigation into the current state of film and TV production in the UK.
Richards appeared at the session alongside Picturehouse Managing Director Clare Binns and Alex Hamilton, CEO of Studiocanal UK, who both expressed fairly downbeat conclusions about the current and future position of independent British cinema.
Richards, however, was the dissenting voice. The longtime Vue chief set out an optimistic vision for independent British cinema informed by the performance and variety of films on his screens across the UK and Europe.
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