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The VPF Model for Independents April 2008. AAM Services. Cinema Financing Solutions. Installation & M aintenance. Content Services. Alternative Content. Advantages of a third party rollout.
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Advantages of a third party rollout • Install a critical mass of screens, so that digital distribution is cost effective for the distributor • Guarantee equipment standards • Purchasing power keeps digital cinema equipment costs down • Ensure equipment reliabilty and uptime through adequate training, service and support • Collect VPFs and other contributions from everyone using the equipment • Transparent reporting (deployments, missed shows and cost recoupment)
Distributor obligations • Make available a minimum % of films released in a digital format • Provide digital copies wherever a film is booked into a a digitally-equipped screen • Pay a VPF to AAM when a film is played in a digital format in a cinema installed by AAM
Advantages of Digital • Lower cost prints • Every cinema gets its own copy • Content jukebox • Benefit under VPF later • Successful films stay on • Easier for cinemas to programme a range
Independent Distributors Circulate prints Second run VPF rates Limited booking patterns Per show, daily, weekly rates
Multiple third parties €VPFx5 €VPF x6 €VPF x4 Kinoplex Cineopolis Kinomundo Fab Films The Edge of Insanity Technoluxe Content Services
Next steps • To discuss AAM’s VPF model in more detail, please contact Fiona Deans • fiona@artsalliancemedia.com • + 44 20 7751 7514 Isabelle Nerin • Isabelle.nerin@artsalliancemedia.com • +33 (1) 42 93 13 89