Month: November 2025

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Hollywood for Sale (Again): Political Favor, Regulatory Blindness, and the High-Cost Collapse of Legacy Media

November 29, 2025 FilmTake Comments Off on Hollywood for Sale (Again): Political Favor, Regulatory Blindness, and the High-Cost Collapse of Legacy Media

Warner Bros. Discovery is barreling toward its fourth ownership change in seven years, a span marked by extraordinary value destruction, unchecked executive churn, and an industry unwilling—or unable—to confront the structural failures hollowing out the U.S. media sector. Instead of stabilizing long-term businesses, these megadeals have become vehicles for a handful of executives, financiers, and political allies to trade century-old cultural institutions like poker chips.

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FilmTake Global Advance Index

November 19, 2025 FilmTake Comments Off on FilmTake Global Advance Index

The FilmTake Advance Index compiles and enhances documented minimum guarantee deals across North America, Europe, Asia, and Latin America—directly drawn from hundreds of independent and mid-budget films representing over over 1,300 territorial distribution arrangements worldwide.

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AFM 2025 Review: Markets Reinvigorated, Deals Reshaped, and Distribution Reset

November 18, 2025 FilmTake Comments Off on AFM 2025 Review: Markets Reinvigorated, Deals Reshaped, and Distribution Reset

As the American Film Market wrapped at the Fairmont Century Plaza, the prevailing sentiment was unmistakable: relief. After four locations in four years—Santa Monica, virtual, Las Vegas—the independent business finally had a market that functioned, flowed, and felt worthy of the work being done inside it.

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AFM 2025: The 50 Hottest Film Packages, What Buyers Want, and How Deals Are Getting Done

November 12, 2025 FilmTake Comments Off on AFM 2025: The 50 Hottest Film Packages, What Buyers Want, and How Deals Are Getting Done

This year’s AFM slate is unusually dense, featuring high-profile packages, prestige breakouts, and ambitious commercial plays across genres, drama, and franchise-adjacent concepts. To help readers track the projects driving the most conversation—across sellers, buyers, agencies, and financiers—we’ve compiled a curated list of the 50 packages dominating meetings and hallway chatter.

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AFM 2025: The Truth About Minimum Guarantees, Shrinking Territories, and Surviving the Reset

November 12, 2025 FilmTake Comments Off on AFM 2025: The Truth About Minimum Guarantees, Shrinking Territories, and Surviving the Reset

The global independent film market has entered a period of hard correction. The number of buyers has contracted, advances are smaller, and even strong festival premieres are taking longer to close. What was once an expansive network of territorial sales has narrowed into a handful of dependable regions and a few genres that still command premiums.

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Paramount’s Identity Crisis: Massive Layoffs, Creative Exodus, and Strategic Uncertainty

November 5, 2025 FilmTake Comments Off on Paramount’s Identity Crisis: Massive Layoffs, Creative Exodus, and Strategic Uncertainty

What was sold as a revitalization appears to many, both inside and outside the company, as a high-risk restructuring that may strip Paramount of the very assets that once justified the deal. The comparison made by several veterans suggests that this has the makings of another Bronfman-era playbook: big promises, bigger checks, and a costly pursuit of scale that can leave the core business weaker.

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From Blockbusters to Bust: Why the Film Industry Isn’t Bouncing Back

November 2, 2025 FilmTake Comments Off on From Blockbusters to Bust: Why the Film Industry Isn’t Bouncing Back

When the cinema lights go down and the credits roll, it becomes clear that the major studio theatrical business is no longer a reliable growth engine. Yes, the occasional billion-dollar franchise still lands. But beneath the surface lies a shrinking marketplace, fewer wide releases, and an exodus of mid-budget films with nowhere to land.