around the world in 80 days music box company

Īndreotti: We also deal with Amazon, which is tricky because since they do both, we had to parse out the data to say what percentage of this was just streaming to Prime members versus what was transactional, and that we did today. One of the tricks, though, is that beyond theatrical, we have multiple, like, for home entertainment, there’s SVOD and then there’s transactional, TVOD. Lisa Holmes/Photo: Sally Blood (Sandy Morris)Īndreotti: Films that we’ve released in the past that might be a good comp. Lisa and I spent some time making projections on what we think the title would do theatrically as well as in home entertainment, and also the expenses involved, and one way we did that is by looking at historical data. There are a couple titles that we’re considering.

Plus, a second forthcoming picture from Music Box Films had just been accepted for Sundance 2023 in January.īrian Andreotti: Things that we were doing today? We were in the acquisitions world for Music Box Films. Before our scheduled hour, the subject at the offices had been an unnamed picture that was similarly without a home and still on the market. A half-dozen posters on the walls include their notable hits– Oscar nominee “Meru,” Francois Ozon’s “Summer of ’85,” “Transit,” “Lost Illusions,” the Oscar-winning “Ida” and the company’s breakthrough grandaddy, “Tell No One,” Guillaume Canet’s 2006 French adaptation of a novel by American writer Harlan Coben that had gone begging on the market for months, and which Schopf and company opened in the same month as “The Dark Knight” and “Mamma Mia!” in July 2008 for a staggering theatrical gross for an orphaned foreign-language film of $6.2 million. Also in the conversation are Lisa Holmes (head of home entertainment at Music Box Films since 2012), Brian Andreotti (head of acquisitions, and with Music Box Films since 2007 and Music Box Theatre since 1995) and Ryan Oestreich (general manager, Music Box Theatre since 2015) we’re all gathered in the conference room of the two-story open-plan space that Music Box Films, the sister distribution company to the venerable theater, has occupied since 2012.

I’m talking with Bill Schopf, the president and founder of Music Box Films since 2007, who’s owned the Music Box Theatre building since 1986 and the theatrical business since 2004. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.” The Music Box Theatre on Southport has endured for going on ninety-four years. (Lisa Holmes was unable to attend this photo shoot.)/Photo: Sally Blood/(Sandy Morris)Ī few words by James Baldwin have been in the air since summer: “Talent is insignificant. Brian Andreotti, Bill Schopf and Ryan Oestreich at the Music Box Theatre.

Around the world in 80 days music box company