Subdistributor
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| In one sentence | A company that a distributor hires to help actually distribute a movie in a specific place. |
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| Category | Film and Television |
| Related | Distributor, Sales Agent |
Imagine hiring one company to sell your lemonade nationwide, and that company then hires smaller, local companies to actually handle sales in each individual city. Those smaller companies are working under the bigger one, not directly for you.
A subdistributor works the same way for a movie. It is a company licensed by a Distributor to distribute a film, often in a specific territory the main distributor does not want to handle directly itself.
Fun facts
- Using a subdistributor lets a distributor reach places, like smaller countries, without needing its own local office everywhere.
- A subdistributor still answers to the main distributor, who is the one who originally licensed the film's rights in the first place.
- Layers of subdistributors can sometimes make it trickier to track exactly where a movie's earnings are coming from, which is part of why rules like At-Source exist.