Cinematical has a nice summary of all the films bought this year at Sundance.( See excerpt below )

What's interesting is how many of you, who didn't make it to the slopes of Park City, will get to see these films in the next year? To me the existing distribution system is broken. Most of these buys will concentrate on Theatrical release and because of the hit machine nature of that, few of these films will make to to wide release ( "Teeth" for example, probably wouldn't get far at the Ohio Multiplexes!)- thus meaning that they won't be a "hit" - thus their TV and DVD releases will be lackluster and not widespread. Hence, not near as many people who would enjoy these films will get to see them. They may do ok, eventually, if the manage to get onto the "long tail" at Amazon or Netflix, but that is only a maybe, as a lot of distibutors, after a disappointing box office tend to bury the film and not bother pushing it further on TV or DVD. And that is maybe why Netflix were at Sundance trying to buy up movies ( see Protaganist below ). And that is just for the films that ARE bought, what about the ones that are not?

This is where Digital Distribution could kick in and change the game. The beauty of Sundance is that it can temporarily shine a light on some obscure and indie gems that otherwise wouldn't get noticed. A huge buzz is created before, during and after Sundance about these films, which also causes the buying frenzy. I think that this buzz could be used to get the Films immediately onto download platforms - such as iTunes, PSP Connect, Google Video (hi-res), XBox Live etc and let people buy them while hot.

The distributors who bought the films could leave them on iTunes etc as a test market and then remove them after a couple of weeks and then do a full scale theatrical release, using the Digital Data to create momentum and help plan how wide the release should be. After the box-office has run it's course, the movies could return to iTunes et Al and live in the long tail reaching markets they may never get to. And as for the movies that didn't get bought, they could go digital immediately!

This may seem like over-simplyfying, but just because an interesting indie film doesn't do a zillion at the box office or doesn't quite set the Arthouse theaters alight, doesn't mean it should gather dust, does it?

Now, the indie cable channels like IFC or Sundance Channel play their part, but what about all the countries that can't get these channels, or the people who to buy a few films not a whole channel?

Either way, we at Wildwave and WildLight are intent on having a go at changing this status quo, in our own small way.

Films bought at Sundance:

* Clubland -- Warner Independent Pictures -- $4,000,000

* Crazy Love -- Magnolia Pictures -- n/a

* Grace is Gone -- The Weinstein Co. -- $4,000,000

* How She Move -- Paramount Vantage -- $4,000,000

* In the Shadow of the Moon -- ThinkFilm -- $2,500,000

* Joshua -- Fox Searchlight -- $4,000,000

* King of California -- First Look Pictures -- $3,000,000

* La Misma Luna (The Same Moon) -- The Weinstein Co. & Fox Searchlight -- $5,000,000

* My Kid Could Paint That -- Sony Pictures Classics -- $1,500,000

* Nanking -- Fortissimo Films -- n/a

* Once -- Summit Entertainment -- n/a

* Protagonist -- IFC & Netflix -- Under $1,000,000

* The Signal -- Magnolia Pictures -- $2,300,000

* Son of Rambow -- Paramount Vantage -- $8,500,000 (some say even higher)

* Teeth -- The Weinstein Co. & Lionsgate -- $1,000,000

* The Ten -- ThinkFilm & City Lights Home Entertainment -- $4,500,000

* Waitress -- Fox Searchlight -- $4,500,000

* Weapons -- After Dark Films -- $1,000,000

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UPDATE: Most of the Dan & Becs YouTube are taken down.

After the last post on Dan and Becs, I had a quick search on YouTube and found a ton of the episodes up there.

Have a look: YouTube Dan & Becs search

Hmmm, What should the strategy be for Broadcasters and TV Production Co.s? How should they deal with the YouTubing of their content? Well.... buy me a danweiser and I'll tell you!

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