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Baseline is the primary supplier of proprietary entertainment information in Hollywood, counting numerous studio and television production companies among its subscribers. It also has a growing syndication/licensing business that provides non-professional entertainment information to leading consumer-oriented Web sites.
The Directory for Independent Film and Television Alliance (IFTA) has links to over 160 companies in over 22 countries engaged in production, finance and distribution of independent film and television programming.
- Possibly the best Online Resource: Film Specific - Membership. Consice, thorough and very hands on
- Frustrated Indies Seek Web Distribution Article In Variety 2/15/08
- State of the Independents by Mark Gil Speaking at LAFF 2008
Self Distribution Tools: CreateSpace for professional packaging and DVD's that play every time
John Sloss gives insight into distribution in this Video (2007)
Fresh DV Film School Distribution 101 with Jerome Courhon 54 minute Video
"What does it take to actually get your film into theatres? How do you attract the attention of top-level distribution executives? How do you know which festivals are right for your film? In other words, how do you get your film noticed, in a glutted indie market that seems less "indie" with every passing year? These are questions that haunt the indendent filmmaker and bring even the best projects to a grinding halt." ~ Marc and Marla Halperin of Magic Lamp Releasing.
Video and Film Distributors compiled by Hal Landen Hal Landen, founder of the VideoUniveristy.com, provides insight in to 54 medium size distributors - mostly for documentaries - and lists the 11 majors.
Cinetic Media They are currently redefinining themselves to find a market for the glut of indies on the market place. 2008.
Renew Media Renew Media is not a distribution company but a not-for-profit organization established by The Rockefeller Foundation in 1990 which supports media artists & advocates on their behalf, connects audiences with independent films and contributes to the media arts field via innovative programs and direct cash support.
Picturehouse (Folded 2008) Launched in April 2005, Think Films 2008 is being sued by advertisers and is failing to make payroll on set one production. This company was formed primarily by veterans of Lions Gate acquisitions.
The Weinstein Company (Note TWC's failure to properly distribute such films as Dedication and Grace is Gone, two $4M acquisitions at Sundance 2007, in this article.)
Picturehouse was the joint venture of two leaders of the entertainment community - HBO and New Line Cinema. President Bob Berney graduated from UT RTF and later formed Inwood, a marketing consulting firm which distributed the Oscar-nominated Memento film. That led Berney to start IFC Films in Los Angeles as a division of the Independent Film Channel. IFC distributed My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which has grossed $241 million, and Y Tu Mama Tambien. Later, as president, Newmarket Films, Berney bought Whale Rider for $1 million, and it earned $21 million. Newmarket Films distributed Monster, which earned $34 million, and then took on the distribution of the controversial The Passion of The Christ, which has grossed a whopping $370 million so far.
