Theatrical: Legitimizer or Kinda BS?

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MARK GILL IN PARIS, INDIEFREUDE AND THIRD WAY DISTRIBUTION
Published 7/8/2008 by Scott Macaulay (noreply@blogger.com) at Filmmaker Magazine
... and relates it to the speech. (Hat tip: Karina at Spout. ) There's a lot of great stuff in it, including his recap of the tough realities involved in premiering a film at Sundance; a cool new coinage ('indiefreude"); and a market recap of the other films that sold at Sundance this year. He also talks a lot about the film's release -- what went right and what went wrong -- and that discussion leads him to this conclusion: My advice? You should make an indie film to make a film. Period. Artistic and commercial success don’t correlate well, and at the moment, only the ...

The view: Is it all over for indie cinema?
Published 7/11/2008 by Danny Leigh at Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk
... that the debate, as rounded-up by Spout Blog , has turned to whether indie film-makers should even concern themselves with cinema anymore - or in the age of DVD and brutal bottom lines, is a theatrical release now just a pricey indulgence? That appears to have been the conclusion of John August, director of recent meta-thriller The Nines, ...

Finding an Audience: Distribution Notes for 7/18/08
Published 7/18/2008 by Chris at Movie Marketing Madness
... Karina passes on competing viewpoints on how important a theatrical release is in the life of a movie, with one side calling it extraordinarily important as a legitimizing factor in the minds of the audience and the other saying that with all the new and better targeted distribution platforms out there, the idea of putting a movie in a theater is kind of out-dated. The LAT also ...