I joined Universal Pictures  Home Entertainment UK in the summer of 1998 — just before DVD exploded, and just after Universal (under Seagram) had acquired PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. I’d spent the previous eight years in home entertainment retail, mostly as a video buyer. I knew the sales teams well from the other side of the table. I’d attended their conferences as a customer. I understood how retailers thought, how they allocated shelf space, how they negotiated terms. W

I’ve written previously about what I learned at Universal, Momentum and Revolver. Each role shaped me in different ways — scale, structure, commercial discipline, entrepreneurial expansion. But the years that probably taught me the most were at Arrow Films. When I joined in 2012, it was a small, ambitious company with serious taste and limited theatrical infrastructure. There was no established department to inherit, no experienced theatrical team to lean on. For the first ti

🍿A truly successful local cinema model.  I popped into my local cinema, The Rex in Berkhamsted, on Sunday as I had a gift voucher to...

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The re-issue of the mind-bending, memory-erasing feature, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind has had me recalling my time at the...

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I love this quote, but I'm not sure how many other people really believe this to be so.... Socrates said the above words 400 years or so...

I have long-struggled to optimise the promotion of movie releases I have worked on with the assets I've been provided with from sales...

Many independent films are made by producers or auteur directors who are, first-and-foremost, driven to tell a particular story. The...