Entertainment & Sports
Sep. 20, 2012
Domestic film distribution: theatrical, video release
Get to know the types of distribution arrangements for releasing you film on video and in theaters. By Mark Litwak
Film distributors generally advance all marketing and distribution costs, and if the film is considered desirable the distributor may pay an advance or minimum guarantee to the filmmaker. If a film bombs and the distributor can't recoup the advance or guarantee, the filmmaker does not have to return the advance. If the advance is sufficiently large to repay the investors the cost of production, then the filmmaker has effectively transferred the...
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