Is the sky falling on the indie film business?

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indieWIRE: Biz found this 6/26/2008 on popwatch.ew.com [flag]
The Chicken Little metaphor isn't mine. It comes from veteran independent film exec Mark Gill, who gave this speech citing dire conditions for the art-house movie business: the shuttering of such indie shingles as Picturehouse and Warner Independent; the absorption of New Line and Paramount Vantage by their parent companies; rising production and advertising costs, the drying up of financing ... [link]

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DISPATCH FROM LOS ANGELES: Insiders, Observers, and Many Others Wonder: Is the Sky Really Falling?
Published 6/26/2008 by eug (eugene@indiewire.com) at indieWIRE: Biz
... "Is the indie-film business dying or on the verge of reinventing itself? Or is the indie biz a canary in the coal mine whose symptoms indicate bigger problems for all of Hollywood? And what should be done to fix them?" wrote Gary Susman in the EW blog post, asking the Entertainment Weekly readers to weigh in with thoughts. ...

Is the Independent Film Business in Trouble?
Published 6/27/2008 by mikek at Hacking NetFlix
... EW has an interesting story about the recent troubles in the independent film industry, Is the sky falling on the indie film business?. ...