Indie Film  If you haven’t read Andrew O’Hehir’s insightful
commentary on the sudden marketplace crash of independent film,
you should. Go ahead. I’ll wait.  Since I doubt you read the
entire article since you’re reading our website while playing
Rock Band, listening to The Cool Kids and pretending to do
homework for your remedial Summer classes, I’ll do as decent a
recap as possible considering the depth of his analysis:
Despite the fad-like popularity of indie films looming over the
entire industry, threatening to forever destroy corporate-
behemoths in a flurry of democratic, fan-based economic coups
d’etat – the reality of independent film is much bleaker.
Lawsuits, financial woes and studio division closings loom over
the future of the industry. The amount of movies in theaters
can’t be supported by the marketplace, and indies will be hit as
hard as anyone. New media is changing the face of the game, and
a world that demands one or two major hits to support hundreds
of art house ghosts is in trouble.  O’