http://www.movie-thoughts.com/2009/11/20/independant-films-should-look-to-the-internet/ Thinking Hard, Not Hardly Thinking Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:59:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.movie-thoughts.com/2009/11/20/independant-films-should-look-to-the-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-82 Bob Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:08:33 +0000 http://www.movie-thoughts.com/?p=833#comment-82 Cliff--You raise an interesting proposition, one that I'm sure has been considered by both the studios and distributors. The threat of independent studios going straight to the internet might give them some leverage with the distributors to increase the number of screens they can aquire. The main problem the independents have as I understand it is that the major studios like Disney leverage their major titles to gain additional screens for their second tier releases i.e. if you want to show "UP" on 500 screens you'll reserve 200 for title xxx. Cliff–You raise an interesting proposition, one that I’m sure has been considered by both the studios and distributors. The threat of independent studios going straight to the internet might give them some leverage with the distributors to increase the number of screens they can aquire. The main problem the independents have as I understand it is that the major studios like Disney leverage their major titles to gain additional screens for their second tier releases i.e. if you want to show “UP” on 500 screens you’ll reserve 200 for title xxx.

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