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Originally Posted by NuclearPizzaMan
Didn't read the article, but that quote you pulled out is garbage. It's not that people don't know how their business model works, it's that their business model sucks.
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I think it might be of interest to tell who linked that article for me.
This bunch of people I know, (distant friends I guess you could say) are independent film makers who have already released a movie using an internet distribution model, rather succesfully. (
http://www.starwreck.com/ It was released on the internet and on DVD and has an estimated 8 million viewers. I know at least a dozen people who worked on that one.)
Their current project is Iron Sky, (
http://www.ironsky.net/) which has been hailed as a model for independent movie financing.
Being in the movie business, they know other people in the movie business and they've talked a lot about financing with them, because of what they've done. These are the kinds of people who agree with this article. When they say it's not as simple as people say, I believe them.
What do you base your opinion on?
Maybe it's different for big Hollywood studios, but I'm not convinced.
The main problem, as far as I've understood, is that films require A LOT of money up front. That kind of money isn't there yet for alternative distribution methods, so traditional methods need to be counted on, which means the traditional methods need to stay profitable...
Of course this problem can fix itself over time, but it's a little more complicated than just "getting on with the times". Films are so expensive to make that no-one is ready to take chances with distribution methods that have not been tried yet. This is propably especially true for major Hollywood productions.
And btw, here's the trailer for Iron Sky. I've seen some other footage and it looks to be hysterical. It's a scifi-comedy.