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How Much Indie Films Actually Make (And What Your Distributor Isn’t Telling You)

Why So Many Indie Films Make Little Money — and Why the Distributor Is Usually the Last Person to Blame We’re going to do something unusual today. Something that tends to make filmmakers uncomfortable. We’re going to talk about real numbers — not hypothetical numbers, not festival-panel optimism, and not the magical “seven-figure projections” that somehow appear whenever low-budget producers are pitching investors. Actual revenue numbers. Before anyone panics, these numbers c

Gato Scatena

Mar 1912 min read

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How Much Indie Films Actually Make (And What Your Distributor Isn’t Telling You)

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