I can't remember the last time a truly independent film being released in the cinema in recent times, films like Hard Candy for example which are made without any studio help, taken around film festivals and then bought by a major studio.
It just feels like that the major studios have far too much of a grip on the film market at this moment and the only way in is with their distribution companies all being in house and no one from the outside given a chance.
I mean the "small" films coming out are all backed by the major studios and come in house from the major studios and it doesn't help that festivals cater more for the big studios, but I can see why with big names being attached and it's guaranteed exposure for the festival which translates to more sponsorship money which is also making it harder for smaller films to get in.
It also doesn't help that getting funding for a small film is even harder with banks now requiring high deposits that are almost impossible to get if you are a first time filmmaker.
So at the moment in terms of creativity in films it's stuck in a limbo or a terrible black hole that's sinking everyone into which is far worse than when there was a writers strike a couple of years ago in America.
Hollywood are more interested in making franchises that in the long run make lots of money with very little space for new films to break through unless it's a comic book, get nominated for Oscars or a rom/com.
Just a very depressing time for a film fan at the moment with no real variation of films like before and little way to choose against the current crop of films coming out when there is little competition. Oh wow another Spiderman is coming out next year that looks the same as the first one which only came out 10 years ago...yay...
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