June
17
DF Indie Studio Update
DF Indie Studio generated a surprising number of stories, many of them written on the fly over the weekend without much probing. (Here's DHD.) I was skeptical; as I suspected, there was less to the announcement than met the eye. That doesn't mean it's a complete sham. It means that these neophytes have a long ways to go before they sleep. A.P. corrected their DFIS story.
Here's IndieWire's update, including Ted Hope's targeting Chris Monger's The Amateur Photographer as the first film. He told me they had not greenlit anything, nor had he gotten any money from DFIS.
What this tells me is that there is a great hunger for DFIS to exist, to work, to thrive. If not this company, than another. There is a need that DFIS is seeking to fill. Whether they have the chops is another matter. BTW, the reason DFIS supporter Ira Deutchman has been flying under the radar: he had an emergency appendectomy this week.
[Photo at the DFIS 30 Rock rooftop announcement party courtesy IndieWire]


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Anne this thing is a sham. Look at the website, it's filled with wild claims that at best stretch the truth and at worst are falsehoods. 105% downside protection? I'm sorry but there is no such thing as a risk-free investment. They're going to make films for under $8M (the release said $10M but the website says $8M everywhere) yet folks like Scott Free have never done that before (and Scott Free can't because of their production fees). It just goes on & on... Harrison Ford's former assistant implying that she produced all of his movies? Someone please stand up and say that the emperor has no clothes...
Posted by: anon | June 17, 2009 at 09:54 PM
The DF Indie announcement got a lot of stories, but not the correction.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gJvP7Hfk3uGN0HlGDD3OhdSiI56AD98VT17O0
Posted by: anon | June 23, 2009 at 02:01 PM