Musings of an Idiot

Distribution

I just received a statement from York Entertainment - the US/Canada distributors and international sales agent for 'Memories of Tomorrow'. They have now sold 1,413 DVD's since the movie's release [this is excluding NZ/Australia as I have different distributors for that territory] and have also sold it to international territories like Russia, Thailand, South Africa, Italy but I haven't seen a cent of the money. Creative accounting is rampant within the distribution network and one can only look in awe as they fleece your movie and earn money off it. I can't reveal any figures as that would spoil the confidentiality clause but all I can say is that it sucks to be flogged so openly by your own distributor.

Good thing is that it did give us some market coverage and affirmed the fact that what we made is good enough to be earning money. In an ideal world - where everything was fair we would have recovered our production costs and would have gone into profit but hey that's a dream world where all distributors were fair ad equitable (I have an excellent working relationship with the VOD distributor as well as the NZ/Australia distributor and only wish that more distributors could be like them).

For any independent film makers looking to get distribution for their feature film my advice would be to avoid York Entertainment like the plague. Sign up with them if you feel like committing hara-kiri. Do some research before signing up with a distributor.


Till later,
Amit

Labels: Distribution, Memories of Tomorrow, Movies, Publicity

posted by Amit @ 2:46 PM