26 Jan 2011

PEVE Entertainment 2012: British Museum, London, 27-28 March 2012

With less than six weeks to go until PEVE Entertainment 2011, the speaker line-up is bursting with senior industry executives who will take part on informative panel sessions, stimulating one-to-one interviews and thought-provoking keynote presentations.

Several topics will stir up many heated discussions at PEVE this year. According to IHS Screen Digest research, physical media still accounts for over half of all consumer spending on movies. Retailers will gather to discuss this further including Richard Crampton, head of entertainment, Sainsbury's; Richard Chapple, trading director at The Hut Group and Brad Aspess at Rarewaves.com.

3-D will be a key focus at the conference on the second day. Speakers who will join the discussion are Andy Evans, managing director at The Pavement and Robert Read, Senior vice president, worldwide marketing, NBC Universal, Eyeframe and Sony DADC. The discussion will include how many 3-D homes will there be by 2014, what content will be available to them, and which retailers will lead the format, plus which genres will sell the best.

The world of cinema will also be broached through a session entitled, Maximising the Relationship with Theatrical. Rob Arthur, operations director, Apollo Cinemas; Nico Simon, chief executive officer, Utopia Cinemas and Julian Stanford, managing director,EMEA, theatre development, IMAX will tackle issues including:

• What impact will premium VoD and day-and-date releasing with non-theatrical media have on revenues?
• How can distributors - large or small - and cinema owners maximise revenues from streaming media services in the light of declining DVD sales?
• Is there real demand for at-home viewing of movies that are still on theatrical release - and what security issues does this raise?
• How are shifting release windows affecting pricing strategies across the value chain, and what impact will this have on cinema revenues at a time when distributors and exhibitors are paying for the global conversion to digital cinema projection and distribution?

Back by popular demand, and something that all delegates look forward to at this annual event, the consumer focus session will take place at the end of the final day. In cooperation with market research specialists, Vital Findings will yet again track down the hard-to-find consumers and ask them what's going on.

Other sessions to be held at the conference in London, will examine home entertainment in the age of digital delivery, what next for TV DVD, Ultraviolet and the Cloud - an in-depth discussion on the whole notion of content ownership, and the ongoing impact of copyright theft on the entertainment bottom line.