"Leaner, meaner" Sundance?
What if they gave a film festival and no one in the industry showed up?
That's the fear surrounding the Sundance Film Festival next month, as independent distributors fall by the wayside.
In an analysis in Daily Variety, writers Dade Hayes and Michael Jones survey the current landscape - a bit of a desolate one, with recent staff cuts at two distributors (Peace Arch and First Look), a Chapter 11 filing for Yari Film Group's release arm, and the shuttering of the long-struggling distributor ThinkFilm.
This comes at the end of a year in which Paramount cut back on its Paramount Vantage division, while Warner Bros. shut down two indie divisions - Warner Independent and Picturehouse - and cut back a third, New Line Cinema.
There's also a question of whether industry reporters will make it to Park City. An item in the New York Post's Page Six column says The Hollywood Reporter, one of the two major trade papers in Tinseltown, may not be able to send writers to cover the festival because the paper's expense accounts are frozen.
Things are tough all over.
That's the fear surrounding the Sundance Film Festival next month, as independent distributors fall by the wayside.
In an analysis in Daily Variety, writers Dade Hayes and Michael Jones survey the current landscape - a bit of a desolate one, with recent staff cuts at two distributors (Peace Arch and First Look), a Chapter 11 filing for Yari Film Group's release arm, and the shuttering of the long-struggling distributor ThinkFilm.
This comes at the end of a year in which Paramount cut back on its Paramount Vantage division, while Warner Bros. shut down two indie divisions - Warner Independent and Picturehouse - and cut back a third, New Line Cinema.
There's also a question of whether industry reporters will make it to Park City. An item in the New York Post's Page Six column says The Hollywood Reporter, one of the two major trade papers in Tinseltown, may not be able to send writers to cover the festival because the paper's expense accounts are frozen.
Things are tough all over.
posted by Sean P. Means @ 7:20 AM |
1 Comments:
Do you think it will be easier to get into bars that weekend if there is less of a crowd? We're 22 and there's 3 of us, last year it was one experience to not know about each bar having guest lists and not being able to get on any of them... so those 4 nights we planned to have good times after a day of skiing turned into stress filled, cold footed nights! Any Ideas?
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