Documentary filmmaker Paul Rieth has created an eight-minutes look back at last year's 20^th anniversary event of the world's primary scholarly conference on the business and economics of filmed entertainment. In 2018, the Mallen conference series moved to Europe for the first time after having been hosted at UCLA, Yale, and New York University, among others, with MCM professor Thorsten Hennig-Thurau co-chairing the conference with Berlin-based producer/scholar/entrepreneur Jannis Funk, in cooperation with Abraham S.

The entertainment industry, and the movie business in particular, is experiencing turbulent times. New technologies, channels, and players challenge Hollywood’s existing business models, with large numbers of consumers shifting their watching behavior toward streaming services. As part of Professor Hennig-Thurau’s master course on “Entertainment Media Marketing,” two executives discussed these changes and the state of filmed entertainment from very different angles.

Im Zuge der Digitalisierung sehen sich Unternehmen aus der Entertainmentbranche mit diversen Herausforderungen bei der Konzeption und Vermarktung ihrer Produkte konfrontiert. Dies betrifft damit auch die Herstellung und den Vertrieb von Filminhalten. Im Rahmen einer neuen Forschungskooperation unter dem Titel „Movie Success Lab“ wollen die Weltkino Filmverleih GmbH aus Leipzig und das Marketing Center Münster gemeinsam dem aktuellen Umbruch in der Kino- und Filmlandschaft begegnen.