With box office receipts down in Europe, many distributors have been offering smaller minimum guarantees across the board.
However, the upshot to this pricing pressure is that buyers are willing to take greater risks on lower-budget films.
Following brisk business at Sundance by Netflix and Amazon, these streaming platforms will continue buying worldwide rights to films at EFM and other markets as streaming competition heats up.
At Sundance, buyers spent $120 million acquiring rights to over 40 films. However, the big news came from Amazon, which dropped $46M on five films.
Amazon has been backing away from independent film over the last two years, but they are back in force as the streaming market sets to expand with the introduction of services from WarnerMedia, Disney, Epix, Paramount, and several others.
To highlight this point, Netflix sent a 49-person delegation to EFM, while Amazon is bringing 22 people.
Below is comprehensive list of high demand films at this year’s European Film Market.
Film Title
Director
Genre
Status
Intl' Agency
US Agency
Amazing Grace
Alan Elliot, Sydney Pollack
Doc, Music
Completed
Endeavor
Ammonite
Francis Lee
Drama, Romance
Pre-production
See-Saw Films
CAA
Black Flies
Jean-Stephane Sauvaire
Drama
Pre-production
IMR
CAA & Endeavor
Call Jane
Sian Heder
Drama
Pre-production
Protagonist
ICM Partners
Color Out Of Space
Richard Stanley
Horror, Sci-Fi
Filming
XYZ Films
XYZ Films
Corporate Animals
Patrick Brice
Comedy, Horror
Completed
Protagonist
UTA, ICM
Dreamland
Nicholas Jarecki
Thriller, Drama
Filming
Solution
Endeavor
Farnsworth House
Richard Press
Drama
Pre-production
HanWay Films
ICM Partners
Follow Me
Will Wernick
Thriller, Horror
Post-production
Voltage Pictures
Give Me Liberty
Kiril Mikhanovsky
Comedy
Completed
Wild Bunch
CAA
Horizon Line
Mikael Marcimain
Thriller
Pre-production
STX International
Knives Out
Rian Johnson
Crime, Drama
Post-production
FilmNation
Light Of My Life
Casey Affleck
Drama
Completed
Sierra/Affinity
Endeavor
Love At Second Sight
Hugo Gelin
Comedy, Romance
Completed
StudioCanal
Promising Young Woman
Emerald Fennell
Crime, Drama
Pre-production
FilmNation
UTA
Reminiscence
Lisa Joy
Sci-Fi, Thriller
Pre-production
FilmNation
SAS: Red Notice
Magnus Martens
Action, Thriller
Post-production
Altitude Film Sales
Shadow In The Cloud
Roseanne Liang
Action, Horror
Pre-production
Endeavor
Endeavor
Shirley
Josephine Decker
Biography, Drama
Completed
Cornerstone Films
Paradigm, UTA
Silk Road
Tiller Russell
Crime, Thriller
Pre-production
Sierra/Affinity
Endeavor
Someone, Somewhere
Cedric Klapisch
Romance
StudioCanal
Stardust
Gabriel Range
Drama, Music
Pre-production
Film Constellation
The Cave
Tom Waller
Drama
Post-production
Wild Bunch
CAA
The Chain
Tim Sutton
Thriller
Pre-production
Voltage Pictures
The Friend
Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Drama
Pre-production
STX International
The Heart
Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
Action, Comedy
Pre-production
Sierra/Affinity
The Hustlers At Scores
Lorene Scafaria
Drama
Pre-production
STX International
STXfilms
The Night House
David Bruckner
Horror, Thriller
Pre-production
Anton
Endeavor
The Power Of Love
Valerie Lemercier
Biography, Drama
Pre-production
Gaumont
Gaumont
The Trial Of The Chicago 7
Aaron Sorkin
Drama, Crime
Pre-production
Rocket Science
CAA
Voyagers
Neil Burger
Sci-Fi, Thriller
Development
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