I think someone may actually be reading Screenhead out at Paramount, folks. The indie film movement, which recently got battered by the massive recession we may or may not still be in depending on who you talk to, is getting a new breath of life.
Seems Paramount’s packing its bags with a truckload of cash and going forth to dole it out, offering one million dollars to ten to twenty filmmakers to make their movies and distribute them under the Paramount label.
Considering that there are people out there making movies–and good ones, too–on the strength of their Mastercards, this is a bright move that comes a whole lot later than it should have. The indie film movement is home to some of the most amazing movies I’ve ever seen (I actually once saw a great indie romcom by the name of Run Robot Run, and indie horror can be mindblowing, like June 8th and In The Dark), so anything that gets indie movies some play is good in my book.
And maybe, just maybe, the studios are wising up and realizing you don’t need to shell out twenty million to Jim Carrey to make a hundred million at the box office.
Just ask Katie Featherston.
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