SUBMITTED BY Scooby
March 11, 2003 — Variety reports that Buena Vista has just sold "Shanghai Knights" and "The Recruit" in a
shared
broadcast/cable window for roughly 15% of the films' domestic B.O.
haul, the
standard criterion of a successful sale. But to get that payday for
"Shanghai,"
BV had to design a deal that crowded five buyers into the network
window. Three
of the five are broadcast networks --- ABC, Fox and the WB --- and two
are cable
nets: TNT and TBS.
What makes the "Shanghai" deal worth noting is that Fox's one run
of the
movie comes between two separate runs on ABC. As it works out, ABC
gets six
months to take its first run of "Shanghai," beginning in November
2005. Then Fox
gets six months to take its run, following which the movie goes back
to ABC for
a final six months.
(Thanks to 'Squirk') |
