The opening weekend of 'Blue Ruin' indicates a potential shift in focus for indie hits.
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A pioneering literary press from Ohio is developing a micro-budget cinema slate. Soon, more purveyors of high-quality content will be getting into the film game.
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Cinemax's 'Banshee' tries out a new style of transmedia storytelling.
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No one will deny that Breaking Bad will be a culturally relevant show for a long time to come. How will its distinct mode of storytelling affect cinema?
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To what degree did piracy hurt the action franchise?
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The great film business intellect shares some wisdom from the Produced By NY conference.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt's 'Don Jon' points a way toward a new kind of distribution strategy for studios.
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As the number of film festivals - and their visibility to the mainstream - increases, will touring the festival circuit come to function as a theatrical release?
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As Hollywood increasingly emphasizes blockbuster releases, more and more of the studios' slates may become filled with independent fare that straddles the border between artistic and commercial.
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The IFP is now running a movie theater, and it's a big deal. Here's why.
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Kevin Spacey's TFF talk raises some groundbreaking questions about the merging of film and theater. Let the debates begin!
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If VOD really is the next big thing, theater chains will have to accept it. Here's a way they just might.
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For emerging indie filmmakers, distribution should be about visibility, not dollar signs.
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What 'Nymphomaniac' indicates might be a future type of storytelling.
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How unconventional filmmaking and disregard for the norm won McQueen the Academy Award.
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A recent comment by James Gray reveals how indie and commercial cinema have in effect switched places.
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Joe Swanberg exemplifies a sense of what it means to be part of the filmmaking community.
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The next step in the crowdfunding revolution will fundamentally change the way filmmakers work.
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Can a filmmaker cut out enough middlemen to sell movie tickets exclusively to backers?
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Is vertical integration the answer to the problems plaguing the independent film world? I have one idea...
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The unremarked-upon connection between filmmaking and film criticism deserves some consideration.
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The TV world was rocked last week by the news that major networks are creating online subscription services.
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Manohla Dargis's treatise on the state of film distribution merits reflection.
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TV is taking market share from cinema - but is it a distinct format, or an increasingly similar one?
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We sat down with director Azazel Jacobs to discuss the new HBO series 'Doll & Em' and how character-driven stories don't necessarily have to be slaves to plot.
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