Ryan Bury, SVP acquisitions and sales at Motion Picture Exchange, will continue sales on a number of completed projects, among them the Timothy Spall drama Bolan’s Shoes and western Among The Willows. “We hope there will be resolution to the strikes shortly and everything can move ahead.” “We have a few films set to shoot next year,” Mercuri adds. Mercuri has several completed titles and at AFM will be showing first footage from horror thriller Don’t Move. The project secured a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement enabling it to wrap production after it paused at the start of the actors’ strike. “We’re hoping everything will be resolved by the time we get there and we can get back to new packages that can go into production in Q1 2024.”Ĭapstone head Christian Mercuri enjoyed a strong response to TIFF Midnight Madness selection Boy Kills World earlier this month and will be continuing sales on remaining territories. Olsson says most of the distributors he has spoken to said they will come regardless of whether or not both strikes are resolved because they have already booked rooms. There has been word that some buyers will not attend AFM this year, or send smaller teams. Pre-bought projects that haven’t go into production since June means buyers will have slots in their schedules this time next year. On pre-buys distributors generally are looking one year and one quarter ahead. “We’re fairly well teed-up with pre-sales.” “We have a couple of projects that have been granted an interim agreement so we’ll be able to start those,” he says. ![]() Highland is preparing to shoot sci-fi thriller The Astronaut starring Kate Mara in October in Ireland after the project landed an interim agreement. If the SAG-AFTRA strike is ongoing, Olsson says AFM “will turn into a screening market where people come to see films they bought a year ago”. Todd Olsson, president of international sales at Highland Film Group, reported a good response to completed titles at TIFF like westerns Outlaw Posse and Place Of Bones and holiday movie The Christmas Classic. Millennium shot four features this year and Greenstein will continue to sell available territories on action thriller Dirty Angels directed by Martin Campbell Hellboy: The Crooked Man sci-fi thriller Subservience and action title Guns Up. My buyers need content and I will do my best to provide it. We know these strikes will only go on for so long.” “We have a number of interim agreements awaiting approval. “We had a number of things that came to a halt which I am confident will be back on track,” says Millennium Media president Jeffrey Greenstein. However, in many cases sellers have pivoted and are prepared to focus on continuing sales on completed films. ![]() Productions without SAG-AFTRA members have also been shooting outside the US. Jackson in talks to play the US president. In TIFF there was only one major package of note: WME Independent’s action title The Beast with Samuel L. Sellers have managed to get interim agreements on some of their projects and production has been going ahead, although on a much reduced scale. However, should the SAG-AFTRA work stoppage continue into or beyond the market, there will still be far fewer pre-sales packages because talent agents by and large have not been sending scripts (written before the writers strike began) to clients unless there is a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement in place. The resolution of the WGA strike will bring a collective sigh of relief across the industry. Prior to news landing this weekend that the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and AMPTP have reached a tentative agreement to end the 146-day writer’s strike, US sellers were busy future-proofing the AFM should both Hollywood strikes still be in full force by the time the market kicked off on October 31.
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