Licensing Consolidation

I don't think this is a good thing. Concord acquires Samuel French - to go with Tams-Witmark and RNH But we will see. Consolidation likely will drive down prices paid to creatives and yet increase the cost to license shows. It might even limit choices for shows to license.

That said, it could be a good thing, if, as intimated, Concord uses its new found power to produce/acquire new projects that might otherwise not see the light of day.

I dunno... leaving aside the fact that technically there is supposed to be no inter-relationship between the four firms (they're just owned by Concord now), I do find it a little weird that, to the untrained eye, it looks like ALW on one side and Cam Mac on the other are carving up the licensing landscape between them, especially with the asset stripping where Cam has been picking up plum titles from each of these offices for MTI before Concord snaps the agencies themselves up (Peter Pan and Chess [in the UK anyway] from Samuel French, Oliver! [which can now only be licensed in the Mackintosh version] and the Lerner & Loewe catalogue from Tams, etc.).

Updated On: 12/17/18 at 10:27 PM