Thats what Ive been doing: putting those pieces together.
Can we today move to find legitimnate co-production agreements between the U.S. and European countries?
We hear the number of meetings between major European and American content makers has shot up since theactors strikebegan.
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Nobodys asking if producers might be a good intermediary voice for WGA and SAG, he said.
Many producers have been agents, have held [senior] positions and know how to speak to people.
We are problem solvers, at the end of the day every day were trying to solve the problem.
He called for more local cinemas that cater to local film fans.
We need directors and actors to turn up where they can, he said.
We need to create a conversation about these movies again.
I hope that through this kind of dialogue we can find new ways to get them back into theaters.
Hurd said many international films were simply unavailable to most consumers.
He suggested international partnerships were the solution.
Its not easy to market to independent audiences.
We really need to rethink what we do and we need to reinvent the way these films are marketed.
The wonderful thing about the market is international is so important.
We can find ways to work together lord knows were always looking for ways to get out of L.A. Netflix and Prime Videos Italian arms are also presenting, along with pubcaster RAI and commercial data pipe Mediaset.
