Self-distribution is still distribution. Films should go up for sale with each cinema deciding whether to buy it or not. No carefully coordinated marketing.
I'm imagining a radically different model, not a tweak. I was raised in an isolated rural town with a one-screen community-run independent cinema and this is what it was like, except due to the limitations of physical film everything was three months late.
I also loved Marty Supreme. You mighy like my piece on it: https://kvetch.substack.com/p/marty-supreme?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=22jvd
Regularise ratings agencies, eliminate local distributors, offer directly to cinemas.
Delays between A24’s self-distribution and local distribution do not differ meaningfully.
Self-distribution is still distribution. Films should go up for sale with each cinema deciding whether to buy it or not. No carefully coordinated marketing.
I'm imagining a radically different model, not a tweak. I was raised in an isolated rural town with a one-screen community-run independent cinema and this is what it was like, except due to the limitations of physical film everything was three months late.