27 January 2009
The Sundance Sales
Posted by admin under: Festivals; Filmmakers; Filmmaking; Indiependent Film; Movie .
Head over to NYTImes, they have a piece on the films that manage to get sold at this year’s festival. Most sold for a lot less than last year’s films. In fact, there wasn’t single blockbuster sale of 10 million like last year. That movie cost about 9 million to make and it made back half that.
One new development was the video-on-demand services for films. Selling your film to video on demand services. Some films manages to get anywhere from 100,000 for “Humpday” to 1 million for “In the Loop.” Joe Swanberg, the director of “Alexander, the Last,” stated: “I’ve come to realize that my festival run is my theatrical run,”
Read the full article here.