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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
DOWN SO LOW... 

Declining box-office... shuttered indie arms... busted distribution windows... the credit crunch... bankrupt distributors... creative malaise -- they are all cited by Dade Hayes and Pamela McClintock in Variety as the reasons for indie film's "dismal year."

A key graph summarizes the debate that many in this business are engaged in right now:

The bottom line is that it's a changing world -- and it might be something cyclical, or things may have changed permanently. The matrix of different ancillaries -- which has expanded radically from the early video days to include VOD, Web downloads, airlines, music and merchandise -- puts a new spin on the still-crucial theatrical window.


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# posted by Scott Macaulay @ 8/26/2008 10:54:00 PM
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Indie's are not dead, just need good films.

Watch my film "A Butter Finger Wedding"

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# posted by Blogger Roman @ 8/27/2008 12:13 PM  


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