Online Film Market Sites
Launch: Cannes 2000
Execs: Oliver Eberle, prexy ShowBizData; Sydney Levine and Peter Belsito, co-presidents of FilmFinders; Jerome Paillard, executive director of Cannes' MIF
Numbers: 4,000 film titles, 2,000 sales companies, 4,000 buyers
Services: rights tracking, trailers and other marketing tools, e-mail, faxing
OnlineFilmSales
Launch: Cannes 2000
Execs: Heidi Lester, CEO-co-founder of InternetStudios.com; Rob MacLean, chairman-co-founder of InternetStudios.com
Numbers: 1,400 film titles, 60 sales companies
Services: rights tracking, sales transactions, trailers and other marketing tools, corporate profiles, messaging, searchable databases
FilmBazaar
Launch: AFM 2000
Exec: Kyle Scrimgeour, chairman-CEO
Numbers: 3,000 film titles; 271 sales companies, 600 registered buyers
Services: rights tracking, searchable databases, trailers and other marketing materials, news, transaction capabilities coming
ReelPlay
Launch: October 1999
Execs: Mark Litwak, chairman; Stephen Liu, co-prexy; Dennis Young, co-prexy
Numbers: 4,480 registered users, 1,259 registered buyers, 3,371 films, 3,087 TV titles
Services: searchable database of titles, trailers, synopses, credits, one-sheets, e-mail, Web-site creation
RightsMart
Launch: Cannes 2000
Execs: David Gajda, CEO; Bob Jackovich, prexy
Numbers: n/a
Services: plan to offer: rights tracking, searchable databases, trailers and other marketing material, custom folders to save and organize products for future follow-up, e-mail.
ScreenExchange
Launch: Cannes 2000
Exec: Boris Szulzinger, chairman-CEO
Numbers: 150,000 TV and film titles, 6,300 companies, 19,200 buyers, sellers and producers
Services: searchable database, marketing materials, e-mail, live and online auctions of films; intellectual-property protection, and royalty collection for film and TV programs.
