An overview of the

The working environment of the film industry, as always, hard, consumer habits will never change.The emergence of the subscription video on demand (SVOD) service has changed the traditional concept of home entertainment, and replaced the previous lucrative actual sales model.The discussion of film enlarge window mode, VR and AR are also emerging, China has become the source of growth.Various hot topics (e.g., viewing fatigue) sometimes appear, in the face of these conditions, all the film industry executives are headaches.

Go to the cinema has become one of the most stable consumer behavior over the past 50 years.However, today's attendance has also been gradually decline, combined with the aforementioned reasons, the entire industry is facing change - including ownership structure, it is in the past few years has affected the whole industry, but also created some interesting dynamic industry.

These dynamic and theater, and home entertainment may face of continuous change requires practitioners to understand audience preferences and habits, detailed analysis of industrial value chain and the small differences between each link, and the detection of acute investment opportunities, to ensure that financial gains.Facing these industry ecology, L.E.K. is committed to help clients in the film industry to actively explore, to be successful.

How can we help

We actively carry out cooperation in the movie industry, help customers to solve the problem of various fields, including:

  • Content management
    • What is the value of the current project?How effective investment?
    • Assets which database to better use and development?
  • Enlarge window strategy
    • Under the condition of changing the cinema window, how to optimize (for producers and exhibitors at the same time) movie rental business?
    • How will the PVOD affect the traditional business model?How to participate?
  • Home entertainment
    • How to maximize the development of home entertainment business?Whether this is the best way to solve the problem "amazon"?
    • How to optimize the distribution of content (such as Netflix, O&O, etc.)?The value of all parties will be how?
  • Economic/business model
    • For studios, theaters and consumers, the movie subscription services have value?
    • Producers/exhibitor can increase attendance and optimize experience?
    • In the highly competitive film entertainment market, unconventional new producers should be how to develop the sustainable growth of the business?
  • operating
    • Producers/exhibitor how to cut costs?
    • Service providers should be how to optimize the service content, from traditional studios and new content developers to strive for more business?
    • Exhibitors should be how to improve customer loyalty and consumption frequency, increase the per capita consumption?
  • Growth strategy
    • Theaters, home entertainment, OTT services such as business is expected to be how to develop?
    • In what way the practitioners in the value chain can gain growth?
    • How to effectively develop new movie entertainment market (such as China)?

Successful cases

L.E.K. has long-term, stable relations of cooperation with the film industry, we are committed to provide customers in the industry with a leading global business consulting services, successful cases include:

  • For a large animation studios assessment for the future development of stability, help it successfully completed a $7 billion worth of first-class animation studio
  • Evaluation model for a small producers to develop film, help it to achieve a profit of tens of millions of dollars in movie project
  • For a large chain of cinemas carried out detailed operation diagnosis, within 12 months reduce its annual cost $1000 to $15 million
  • For a large technology company, evaluate the whole VR value chain, and then into the industry's best solution were determined
  • Detailed analysis for a large service providers movie project profitability, help its reasonable selecting projects and pricing, in the end the service provider implements the profit growth

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