Lord Puttnam, President of Film Distributors’ Association (FDA) in the UK, looks at the big changes happening in the film value chain.
The film value chain remains in a tricky state of flux, and the always precarious task of forecasting revenues for titles coming to market two or three years ahead has become riskier than ever. While the UK home video market, if I may still call it that, declined slightly in value in 2013, the ways in which people are watching are changing radically.