Re: Why are rights to movies/TV series split up to different distributors?

RipCurl wrote:
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> > NEON GENESIS EVANGELION  - ADV
> > EVANGELION Movie - Manga
> >
> > RUROUNI KENSHIN - Media Blasters
> > SAMURAI X - ADV
> >
> > BLACK JACK OAV series - Central Park Media
> > BLACK JACK MOVIE - Manga
> >
> >
> > I'm sure there are several other examples (e.g. COWBOY BEBOP movie and
> > TV series), but why is the series handled by one distributor and the
> > movies handled by another? When the rights are sold, doesn't it make
> > more sense to buy all the rights at once rather than just the TV
> > series or movie?
>
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> Whoever is willing to put up the most money at the time to buy the rights.
> And some, the series is negotiated before the movies are made. So its hard
> to do a pckage deal.
>
> LIke with NGE movies, Gainax received a reportedly 1 million for the series
> from ADV but ADV couldn't bargain down the prices of the movies since Gainax
> wanted 1 million each (and when 1 of those movies was barely an hour long, 1
> million for it, in my book would not have been worth it). ADV wasn't
> prepared to put that much money down.
>
> So Manga came in a bought the rights (at a non disclosed amt).

Beyond that, when ADV bought the rights to the TV series, the movies 
weren't even close to coming out. It's a bit hard to achieve a package 
deal when the later products aren't on the platter, yet.

And, since this is business, if some new company is willing to step in 
and negotiate a higher price, it usually behooves the Japanese companies 
to sell the rights to the newer bidder (if the original won't up it.) 
Besides that, sometimes relations change between companies. Consider how 
Tenchi Muyou, a long-time Pioneer product from AIC, is now a Funi series 
(at least GXP is.)

Damien Roc