James Emanuel Shapiro on Cannes and the Business of Film Festivals

00:00:00
/
00:36:05

June 10th, 2021

36 mins 5 secs

Your Host

About this Episode

On this week’s episode, James Emanuel Shapiro returns to the show to talk about the return of Cannes and what it’s like to be on the business side of a film festival. We all know about the great premieres and the fancy parties, but what about the actual business of these festivals, the markets where films are bought and sold? Plus, we’ll talk about Amazon’s purchase of MGM and, at the end, James shares some interesting data about Prime Video and iTunes’s relative place in the transactional VOD market.