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By the early 1970’s, Blaxploitation film genres became popular with a commercially successful film by Melvin Van Peebles “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song.” Many notable indie filmmakers at the time that featured blaxploitation were Gordon Parks, William Crain and William Levy.
Co-founded by Rock Miralia, who acquired full ownership in 1974, Distribution Technology has been an industry innovator since inception, focused on customer-centric logistics solutions.
In 1975, the movie world would be changed forever and be a great blow to indie filmmakers that wanted to show their movies in theatres.
1976 — Jeppson publishes Analysis of Flow in Pipe Networks.
1976 — Swamee-Jain equation published.
A major breakthrough for an independent film in the late 1980’s – Sex, Lies and Videotape by Steve Soderbergh becomes one of the first indie blockbusters with a budget of a million that made 24 million and one of the best investments in indie film to date at that time.
1980 — Personal computers introduced.
The industry operated under this format until 1980, when President Reagan allowed studios to once again become vertically integrated by giving them the right to own movie theaters.
By 1985, the studios were overcome with acquisition fever and were purchasing theaters at a record pace.
Tom and Mark Miralia joined Distribution Technology in 1988 as staff engineer and warehouse supervisor.
The 1990’s New technologies began to arise, cutting costs for independent and the majors with computer editing system and other technologies.
In the late 1990’s – a plethora of medium sized indie distribution companies opened, among them, Magnolia Pictures, IFC Films, Fox Searchlight and Paramount Vantage.
Since 1990 to present day, opportunities for independent filmmakers have jumped by leaps and bounds.
1991 — Water Quality Modeling in Distribution Systems Conference.
1993 — Introduction of water quality modeling tool.
In 1995- Home viewing accounted for half of all movie sales, which is great news for Indie filmmakers that skip formal distribution methods and sell straight to DVD. The DVD format is released.
Hence, the arrival of the new DVD digital video format—which allowed an entire film to be stored on a disc similar to a CD—in late 1996 was widely supported by the industry.
In 1997, Reed Hastings opened a branch of Netflix, Red Envelope Productions which distributes the DVD’s by mail.
Pay-Per-View and increased consumer sales of buying movies. It is released in the U.S in 1997.
"5 Companies to Join in Anti-Piracy Pact." New York Times, 20 February 1998.
Hollinger, Hy. "Territory Roundup." Hollywood Reporter—Special American Film Market Issue, February 1998.
In 1998, movie distributors earned about $8.5 billion in video rentals from United States and Canadian theaters and a similar amount overseas.
Napster’s peer-to-peer application launched in June 1999, focusing on the sharing of MP3 music files and allowing users to search for and download tracks with relative ease.
Boliek, Brooks. "China to Allow More United States Films." Hollywood Reporter, 16 November 1999.
Sporich, Brett. "Hollywood Makes Rev-Sharing Deal on Collection of Indie Films." Video Store, 19 December 1999.
By 1999 made-for-satellite films constituted a $543 million distribution market.
1999 International Motion Picture Almanac.
——. "'99 B.O. Reels In $7.5 Billion." Hollywood Reporter, 3 January 2000.
From 2000 to present, Major Hollywood Studios that don’t have Indie production create one, i.e.
As Newsweek explained in September 2001, "Truly independent films are subsidized by multiple credit cards, loans from Mom or lucky encounters with the idle rich.
Horn, John. "Losing Our Independence: What Happened to the Once Lively, Upstart World of Nonstudio Moviemaking?" Newsweek, 10 September 2001.
Major studios produced 225 of these, 29 more than in 2001, whereas independent distributors released 242 films, a decline from the 287 in 2001.
Frankel, Daniel. "DVDs Open Revenue Menu." Daily Variety, 29 July 2002.
In November of 2002, a competing online movie service called Movielink—a joint venture between Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Warner Bros., Universal, and Sony Pictures Entertainment—began serving customers.
The company announced itself bankrupt in 2002, and its intellectual property and trademarks were purchased by another company.
2002 — Integration with GIS. Water modeling and GIS software become highly integrated with the release of WaterGEMS, software that combines the functionality of both tools.
According to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), in 2002 domestic box office returns equaled $9.5 billion, up more than 13 percent from the previous year's record.
Sales climbed another 84 percent in 2002, reaching 702 million units.
In late 2002, Warner Brothers forged an agreement with CinemaNow in which, for $3 to $4, consumers could download movies to their personal computer for a period of 30 days.
"DVD Software Sales Drive Video Industry to Record Breaking $20 Billion Year; More Than 40 Million United States Households Own a DVD player." Business Wire, 9 January 2003.
Dawes, Amy. "DVDs Lead the Way to Recovery for Indie Film." Variety, 17 February 2003.
Apple’s iTunes Store arrived in April 2003, heralding the beginning of the download era proper.
Bloom, David. "Fox On Line With CinemaNow: Studio's First-Run Films in First Internet Deal." Business Wire, 7 April 2003.
Soderburgh was known for his extreme dialogue that depicted reality at the time, his great linear filmmaking and his “editing in such a way that no single truth or story would emerge; rather a mosaic of truths, fables and formats emerged” (Daly, 2003)
Distribution Technology (DT) was founded in 2003 because the vast majority of investments are made by clients after they receive advice from advisers, but the time, cost and risk of delivering advice mean the provision of quality advice is increasingly challenged.
Beatport was launched the following year, in January 2004.
In late 2004, Dynamic Planner received a ringing endorsement from the then Financial Services Authority (FSA), which called its custom use of the application ‘a benchmark for perfect advice.
According to The Online Reporter , by 2005 feature films delivered via the Internet were expected to result in revenues of $882 million.
There are many opportunities for filmmakers to sell DVD’s, as Henrig, Henrig-Thrau, Sattler, Eggers and Houston report in their study in 2007, “The Last Picture Show” that 58% of all sales of movies are on DVD’s.
By 2007, DT had hit the Tech Track 100 and ranked 40th among the fastest growing UK companies.
Spotify launched in 2008, allowing users to listen to uninterrupted music of their choice from a huge catalogue for a monthly subscription fee – or to listen to a limited amount with adverts played between every few songs.
By the autumn of 2009 Dynamic Planner’s core client base was being challenged.
Beck became one of several artists to bring the format back to prominence in the popular music sphere when he released his 2012 album ‘Song Reader’ as sheet music only.
RDR, at the end of 2012, was pivotal within the sector and accelerated interest in Dynamic Planner from firms who suddenly faced a challenge meeting its requirements to demonstrate their value and justify their fees more transparently.
It was purchased in 2013 by Robert F.X. Sillerman’s SFX Entertainment for a reported $50 million.
A.A. In which year was company founded? Who came with the idea? The company was founded in 2013.
Dynamic Planner deepened its investment services to advisers further and, from 2015, launched its Risk Target Managed classification where investments are explicitly run to stay within its risk profiles – an industry first for an independent provider.
From January 2016, ACE Fund Rating research was introduced, helping advice firms assess which investments were delivering (and most likely to continue to deliver) good risk-adjusted returns against the Dynamic Planner model.
Distribution is the “least studied, least understood aspect of the film industry, certainly of Hollywood,” said Long, who joined the Department of Media & Cinema Studies in Fall 2017.
In 2017 Dynamic Planner was named as an Emerging Star in the Megabuyte Scale Up awards – as a result of the growth in its recurring subscription revenues, now more than 90% of its turnover.
“Even today in 2018, investment processes remain relatively fragmented,” says Goss. “So the future for Dynamic Planner is very much focused on encouraging firms to fully adopt our end-to-end process integrated with their back office and platforms.
EQ Investors portfolios now risk profiled on Dynamic Planner May 12, 2021
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