{"id":2062609,"date":"2025-10-01T18:04:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2062609"},"modified":"2025-10-01T18:04:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:04:23","slug":"disney-warner-bros-film-execs-talk-facing-global-film-competition-trust-your-local-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/disney-warner-bros-film-execs-talk-facing-global-film-competition-trust-your-local-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney, Warner Bros. Film Execs Talk Facing Global Film Competition: \u2018Trust Your Local Team\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jeff Goldstein\u2019s first year as global distribution chief at Warner Bros. has been a whirlwind one with $4 billion in worldwide grosses and counting. But amidst the success, the domestic distribution veteran says he\u2019s learned plenty of new lessons about releasing Hollywood\u2019s films overseas, with one standing out above the rest. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrust your local team,\u201d Goldstein said at TheWrap\u2019s annual conference TheGrill at the DGA Theater in Hollywood. QUOTE<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It\u2019s been good advice, as all of Hollywood\u2019s studios face a changed theatrical landscape where many countries, especially in Asia, have leaned increasingly more on local films as American film output has dropped amidst the pandemic and the 2023 strikes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>More from TheWrap<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"max-md:faux-bleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_5at56mhak5clubsnm6fbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 hidden pb-5 md:block\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_9at56mhak5clubsnm6fbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That changing landscape was a major topic of discussion at TheGrill\u2019s box office panel, which Goldstein was a part of alongside his former Warner Bros. compatriot and current Disney global distribution chief Andrew Cripps as well as Regal\/Cineworld CEO Eduardo Acuna.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201c80% of Japan\u2019s box office is local now. 90% of China\u2019s box office is local<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/disney-warner-bros-film-execs-talk-facing-global-film-competition-trust-your-local-team\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Disney, Warner Bros. Film Execs Talk Facing Global Film Competition: \u2018Trust Your Local Team\u2019;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Disney, Warner Bros. Film Execs Talk Facing Global Film Competition: \u2018Trust Your Local Team\u2019<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:TheWrap;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Goldstein\u2019s first year as global distribution chief at Warner Bros. has been a whirlwind one with $4 billion in worldwide grosses and counting. But amidst the success, the domestic distribution veteran says he\u2019s learned plenty of new lessons about releasing Hollywood\u2019s films overseas, with one standing out above the rest. \u201cTrust your local team,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2029532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[384881,306876],"class_list":["post-2062609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-jeff-goldstein","tag-warner-bros"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/In-Black-Rabbit-Jason-Bateman-and-Jude-Law-are-brothers.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2062609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062610,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062609\/revisions\/2062610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2029532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2062609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2062609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2062609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}