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the money quote: “The economics of distributing films in theatres — with the extraordinary costs of theatre rental, newspaper advertising, and related distribution expenses — simply make theatres outmoded.” from Digital Cinema Report

from Vator.tv, a tech company social network

• ‘The agencies, such as United Talent Agency and William Morris, are becoming more like venture capitalists as they move toward an ownership model and further away from the representation model, said Chris Pappas, head of digital media practice for United Talent Agency. “We find the right artist (and) we create a company around his/her intellectual property,” he said. As for the artist, “they’ll have a substantial ownership position,” he added. “The idea is that they’ll be the owner of that content and not just workers for hire.”‘

video here
 

This Business Week article talks about documentaries, but it could pertain to media in general. 

That is what Paul Sweeting from Content Agenda asks. 

Includes an interesting quote from Bob Alexander, president of Indiepix (an online distributor of independent movies with “generous revenue sharing”).  “I think the economic changes in the theatrical distribution system are permanent and it’s going to be very hard to get them to work for independent films at this point.”

Alexander goes on to suggest, at this time, the web is better for marketing and audience building than distribution and the DVD is still king. 

Read the entire article here.

I recently joined Film Specific (a site with lots of great information on film distribution– now I just need to get around to reading and then using it).  It is ran by Stacey Parks who used to work in film distribution.  Here is her free film distribution crash course.