How many independent movies are really successful?
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It seems like indie films are becoming more successful more and more. I think soon indie and major studio films are going to be on equal grounds as far as sales go. I once read that Donnie Darko only made about an 1/8 amount of sales as compared to a budget that was over 5mil or so. The exact numbers exlude me, but you get the picture.\nLater.
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I have movies of many Genres \n Well written well acted I guess...
988050
Probably....they don't know when to stop!  Their goal is to see how many parents will poke their eyes out before the last movie,\nand they must reach at least 1,000,000,000,000 before they can stop making sequels!!!
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From January 2005 to September 2005, the movies of the six Hollywood studios earned $4.7 billion compared to $4.5 billion in the same period in 2004. Their share of the American box office rose from 68 percent in 2004 to 75 percent in 2005. (Click here for all the studio numbers for the past nine months.) The big losers were independent studios who specialize in more adult movies, such as Lions Gate and Newmarket Films, and the so-called "studioless" studios, DreamWorks and MGM, which suffered 40 percent box-office declines. (Studioless studios are verging on extinction as MGM is in the process of selling itself to Sony and DreamWorks is desperately attempting to sell itself to Universal or Paramount.) \n\nRead full story at link below
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International movies. People see a lot of Hollywood, but a lot of good movies are made outside US. I would like to name a few but they are the new and popular international movies, they are the kind of movies that people see.
1177360
Moulin Rouge was BRILLIANT.  I loved the blend of the music covers and original music.  It was casted wonderfully, who knew they could alll sing?  The play-within-a-play-within-a-movie theme was great.  When the movie came out, I saw it 4 times in the theater because I wanted to bring friends and show them how great it was.
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There are probobly hundreds of genres.\nThousands of people trying to make it big.\nOnly the most dedicated and lucky can win, saddly.
678682
I would like to own my own production company one day. I will graduate from college this coming December with my bachelors in arts and concentration in film and video. I hopefully want to make movies but I know the movie industry is tough to break into. Thank you for asking!
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ifilm.com has lots of em!!!
261001
Try either "Return to Paradise" "Dark City" or "Mean Creek".  They are all fabulous movie that had little box office success but recieved critical acclaim.  Mean Creek is the only one that is Indie.  Return to Paradise does have stars in it, but kind of flopped.  it is a GREAT movie though.  Dark City is probably one of the best Sci-Fi movies ever.  Better than the Matrix and it came out before it and unfortunatly tanked.  Roger Ebert loves it enough to do a commentary track for the DVD by himself for the entire movie, and has given lectures just on this movie.  \n\nhttp://imdb.com/title/tt0124595/     --- Return to Paradise\nhttp://imdb.com/title/tt0118929/     --- Dark City\nhttp://imdb.com/title/tt0377091/     --- Mean Creek\nhttp://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051106/REVIEWS08/511060302/1023    --- Roger Ebert's Dark City review for his "Great Movie" collection.
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I would suggest looking at colleges that have a good film program!  The only person that I know of that broke into the film industry from nothing beforehand, is Quentin Tarantino.  He was a video store clerk before Reservoir Dogs put him on the map!  Its best to go to school and learn what you need to learn, and then work your way up the ladder!   For the mostpart, producers typically are the people that finance the film, so unless you are mega rich, thats not something that you are going to be able to just jump in and do.  Best of luck, if you make it big, cast me in one of your movies.  :)
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1 - ditto\n2 - Checking Movie now :-)\n3 - Gone With The Wind\n4 - M\n5- Grease (most profitable)
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Well, there are a few different scenarios that you could do.\n\n1) Hire a literary agent and focus all of your business through him.  Sell it under a pen name (non de plume for you adroit types).\n\n2) Look into doing the movie yourself (independent filmmakers are becoming increasingly popular)\n\n3) Use the good ole world wide web to your advantage.\n\nHowever, you should know that screenplays/scripts, etc. are difficult to sell.  First it has to be good.  Next, once the buyer gets ahold of it, it will probably be changed by a team of writers.\n\nAnd in more wicked cases, the company/person may just offer a cheaper price for the "concept" of the idea and then hire writers to do that.\n\nHence, maybe investing in an agent might be the best way to go.  They would know the in's and out's better than some poor souls randomly answering questions on Yahoo!
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Answering your q's in reverse order, i actually have seen all of them, from Wings(1927) to Crash(2K6).  As a second generation movie geek, Dad was instrumental in teaching me the history of film(Pop owns about 11K, no, i'm not kidding, 11,000 movies.  He's been collecting since the first VCR came out in '76, and prerecorded movies were first released in '77.  To put this in perspective, your local Blockbuster carries about 14K titles.)  My personal opinion?  Godfather 2('74).  Most of the time, tho, the best picture is not the one that wins('97...was Titanic better than L.A. Confidential?  Ummmmn, no.)  What are ya gonna do?  That's Hollywood....
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not enough of them\nsmart,like hollywood used to be\nit's that or indies for me most of the time\n(three colors films,amelie,water drops on burning rocks,la petit lille,etc.)\nnes discute pat tout ton..
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uh..you should go on craigs list ( The website) and look under your state and find the film/tv postings under jobs. a lot of times there are local indie films being filmed and they need PA's and interns and help.
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It is almost impossible to predict what will catch the fancy of the obsessive few. I think that most mainstream movies are simply trying to make money now. Of course, some of them are spectacular failures, but somebody thought that they had a good idea.