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Dark Days Ahead for Little Movies

Posted Jun 30, 08 9:26 AM CDT in Arts & Living,  Opinion,  Business 

(Newser) – This has been a banner year for Hollywood blockbusters, but things look dour for explosion-free cinema, David Carr writes in the New York Times reports. Small movies have flooded multiplexes, choking each other out—a sign, producer Mark Gill says, of big-money backing meeting the ease of digital film-making. The money's disappearing, and eventually only good indie flicks will get made.

“There are too many movies, and too many of them are terrible and dull," one industry analyst said. "The overproduction is a breach of faith with the audience, and they have become skeptical." Concludes Gill: “The strongest of the strong will survive. But it will feel like we just survived a medieval plague.”

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The front of the Capitol Theater promotes Haitians and foreign films in Port-au-Prince, Monday, July 2, 2007.   (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
This photo released by Miramax shows actor Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in a scene from "No Country for Old Men."   (AP Photo/Miramax Films, Richard Foreman)
"No Country for Old Men" may have done well, but truckloads of other small films have flopped recently.   (AP Photo/Miramax Films, Richard Foreman)
There's nothing on the horizon to take Juno's place as the little movie that could.   (AP Photo/Fox Searchlight, Doane Gregory)
There's no ... miniature with big breakout potential like 'Juno'" on the horizon, David Carr writes in the New York Times.   (AP Photo)
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