Territory

How it is used

Common in sales, distribution, and festival business. Rights may be divided by territory, such as a country, region, or language market.

Example sentences

1. The distributor pre-sold the documentary in several Asian territories before the film had its international premiere.

   Here, territory means a sales area defined for rights and release deals, not land in a political sense.

2. Our agent kept the Turkish territory available because a local streamer wanted to discuss an exclusive release window.

   In this sentence, territory refers to a specific market whose rights can be reserved, sold, or negotiated separately.

Common collocations

• distribution territory
• sales territory
• territory rights
• exclusive territory

Related terms

• distributorA company that buys the rights to show a film in a country or region and handles its release, marketing and delivery to cinemas or platforms.
• releaseTo make a film or series available to the public in cinemas, on TV or on streaming platforms. As a noun, a release is a film being shown or the act of showing it.

More terms: Distribution, Festivals and Awards

• trailer
• box office
• subtitles
• blockbuster
• premiere
• film festival
• streaming service
• age rating
• nomination
• sales agent
• theatrical release
• festival circuit