Videoage International December 2021

I N T E R N A T I O N A L www.V i deoAge.org THE BUSINESS JOURNAL OF FILM, BROADCASTING, STREAMING, PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION December 2021 - VOL. 41 NO. 7 - $9.75 ???? (Continued on Page 10) I n May, The Los Angeles Times ran a lengthy article about how to pronounce the name of the newest sports platform, DAZN. Ap- parently, according to the paper, not even Jerry Jones, owner of the American football team, the Dallas Cowboys, knew the correct pronunciation, which the Times said is “Da Zone.” Jones was promoting a boxing match taking place in his team’s stadium that was streamed on DAZN. Since the London-based OTT sports subscription video streaming service launched — first in Europe, and then in Japan in 2016 — and is owned by Ukraine-born Sir Leonard NATPE Miami Will Be Big And In Person Train travel in the U.S. is an expensive idea, and not high speed Books: Fox created Zanuck and Zanuck created film studios Asia TV Forum pushes to balance market and conferences My 2¢: Some retirees live in the past, some live in the future Page 14 Page 6 Page 4 Page 3 T he official announcement that NATPE Miami 2022 was going to be an in-person trade show came on October 27. It would be the first in-person NATPE market since the Miami event of January 2020, the last of the major in-person markets before the pandemic. The announcement was some- what ambiguous since it did not mention any venue, leaving room to speculate that the market would not be held in the traditional Fon- tainebleau Hotel. However, eight days later the organization produced an advertising page indicating that the Miami Beach oceanfront resort hotel would indeed continue to house the event. In-Person MIP in Cancun Gets Estelar Review (Continued on Page 8) If DAZN Doesn’t Dazzle You, Kevin A. Mayer Will Y es, the MIP Cancun 2021 market was smaller than the 2019 edition, but it was not less hectic. The official count was 466 participants, a 40 percent decline from the sixth in-person edition in 2019. Nevertheless no (Continued on Page 12) V. Blavatnik, some people thought that the “Da” was “yes” in Russian. The 64-year-old Blavatnik is now the U.K.’s richest man. In 1986 he founded Access Industries in New York City, which in 2014 increased its stake in Perform Group media company — which