Comment le déclin du marché Home Video modifie la façon dont Hollywood finance ses films

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Viacom CEO: Declining DVD Sales Have Altered Moviemaking Economics

http://www.homemediamagazine.com/paramount/viacom-ceo-declining-dvd-sales-have-altered-moviemaking-economics-28359

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Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman told an investor group that the ongoing slowdown of disc sales of new-release movies continues to reverberate through Hollywood, leading studios to rework the entire economics of moviemaking, among other issues.

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Paramount has restructured deals made with actors, producers and directors to better reflect a “partnership” relationship on the economics of the film rather than a high upfront cost. “We don’t mind sharing the upside [of a movie with talent] as long as we don’t have a downside, or we have a sharing of that risk,” he said. The executive said it is no longer to tenable to make “huge” upfront payments to talent with an increased uncertainty on the backend due to slumping disc sales.

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“Happily, digital revenues are growing but it’s not a perfect transference [with disc sales] at this point,” Dauman said. “The rate of decline up until this point has been pretty significant on the DVD side. It’s not going away, but I don’t personally expect that it will go back to where it was.”

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“The way we look at the movie business is that we want to create great films and we want to manage the downside, the risk/reward equation if you will,” Dauman said. “We’ve had a good relationship with Redbox, which has worked out well for us economically. We look at sorts of revenue opportunities.”