Film set glossary · Production · scheduling · paperwork
Distributor
The company that decides a finished film's release timing and scale, supplies it to cinemas and platforms, and leads marketing. It may also invest. Rights and revenue terms are set by contract.
- Korean
- 배급사
- Also
- 배급
In other languages
- 한국어 · KO
- 배급사
- 완성된 작품의 개봉 시기·규모를 정하고 극장·플랫폼에 공급하며 홍보·마케팅을 이끄는 회사. 투자를 겸하기도 한다. 권리 범위와 정산은 계약으로 정한다.
- 日本語 · JA
- 配給会社
- 完成作品の公開時期と規模を決め、劇場やプラットフォームに供給し、宣伝を主導する会社。出資を兼ねることもある。権利範囲と精算は契約で定める。
Related
- Release windowThe channels through which a title reaches audiences and the order they open in: cinema, transactional VOD, subscription streaming, broadcast and so on. The wait before the next window is the holdback; order and length vary by title and contract.
- Sales agentA company or person who takes on a film's rights and sells them to distributors, platforms and broadcasters territory by territory at markets and festivals, managing contracts and collections. Fees and recoupable costs are set by contract.
- PD (producer / director)In Korean TV dramas "PD" often means the director; in film it usually means the producer responsible for the production. Context decides.
More terms in this category
- Call sheet
- Call time
- Start of principal photography
- Wrap of principal photography
- Script breakdown
- Stripboard
- Shooting schedule
- Shooting day
- Day out of days (DOOD)
- Script revision
- Last-minute script pages
- Storyboard ("conti")
- Shot list
- Daily production report
- Location scouting
- Location shoot
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