The Death of Traditional Film Distribution

lol Audio track-only ...of The moving Talkies distribution lol

Fantastic insight. Every filmmaker young and old needs to see this. I will be showing this to my students. Thank you.

Great Alex! A good cup of truth in the market place. Very compelling. I'm going through this exact scenario right now. Luckily getting more sizable MG's, but really... I feel like going it alone. Are you interested in talking about the idea for an unconventional direct sales. Reach out if you can.

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Hey Alex, I’m shooting a film on a Canon C2oo but i’m not shooting in Raw as I don’t feel I need that control in post for this project: not to mention the workflow cost and impact. Do streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video care if you shot in Raw or MP4? The footage is still 4k

Isn't the DVD buyer still a niche audience ? boomers, etc ?

Billions of dollars are still sold in it.

I agree in most of what you are saying.

The Niches make the Riches

My series will definitely go platform in both China and Internationally, but, it seems that not going after latent DVD sales may be leaving money on the table.

Scorsese And Alan Moore are right ! ....marvel is destroying “cinema”. Dumbed down normies just want super hero clap trap And baby yoda toys. Indie film makers have to market and create buzz themselves. Filling holes / niches for streaming services sounds soul destroying. 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤡🤡🤡🤡🌍🌍🌍🌍

Net flix have a big opportunity here! Then can create a whole indie section! Promote indies, And actually pay indies that do well. Let’s face it streaming is the new distribution! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤡🤡🤡🤡🌍🌍🌍🌍

I've been going to AFM for 10 years and I was there this year also. Man.. you are spot on!!!

I am a web developer and film maker. This type of marketing strategy used to apply and still relevant to websites, since online platforms r nothing but websites, they treat movies as products for niche(genres). Films are made on basis of story and emotions unlike products for need. Emotions to be fulfilled constantly. Make a movie, find loyal audience and market to them.

Love it, Alex!

What do you think about Facebook watch? They just have a show called LimeWire, do you think I can put my movie over there as well and instead of having aggregators do all that I can just go ahead and boost my own movie over Facebook watch? I don't know I'm a new filmmaker I just made two movies still in editing phase will be done soon.

The issue is that the platforms have all the data and as a filmmaker you have none.

Thank you for this episode because I was just telling a filmmaker that the studios are going to cut out movie theaters all together within 10 years or less. So, if we want to see our films on the big screen we had better hurry up and work on our distribution strategies. Things are definitely changing.

Alex. I really gotta thank you man for all your work all these years. On the forefront’s of the industry and all the work you put in to share this information with us (the tribe). I really appreciate it

Hi Alex. I've listened to your podcast for a while now & have learned lots. For that I thank you. However, today's episode has totally blown my mind - not because I'm learning something new, but for once I'm already on the same page!! Everything you covered just absolutely validated my thinking & approach. This is amazing!! I'm in the UK, and the notion of niche market, being business focused & thinking like an entrepreneur constantly falls on deaf ears. In fact, if it wasn't for a couple of like-minded individuals & now your episode today, I'd swear I was obviously insane for thinking like an entrepreneur... because no-one else is. I read The Big Picture by Ben Fritz earlier this year & it was amazing insight, and I learned loads about the 'business' of filmmaking. However, I'm the only person I know who has read it. I'm absolutely 100% behind the opinion that the landscape has changed & is continuing to change, and I've been on a journey to learn more about the business side of things for over 2yrs now to allow me to exploit new business opportunities in filmmaking. I was already a huge fan of your work, but now I'm totally onboard because we're on the same page. Thank you for today's episode. I'm going to keep going on this path of 'film-trepreneur' because it's absolutely the way forward. The old models are dead, long live the new models. Cheers Alex, Martin.