Paramount Releasing Talhotblond Straight To Download, Setting Paradigm For Their Microbudget Releases - Trailer Included
By Brendon Connelly/Dec. 13, 2009 8:15 am EST
From what I’ve seen about the movie, including this trailer, talhotblond hits some of the same hot buttons as, say, Hard Candy. If people are one half as seduced by this as they were by that, we’ve got a hit on our hands.
Screen Daily quote PDE’s Keith Quinn as saying:
This form of straight-to-download distribution is a likely fate for some of those vaunted $100k productions. Indeed, an LA Times piece on the plan even goes so far as to say:
We may be on the cusp of the studios’ concerted forays into download only distribution. I’m a packaged media fan myself – I like that my back room feels like a library, all of the books replaced with DVDs and BDs – but if this means more, and more varied, material can get a good, well authored release, then I’m for it.
Not all of the micro-budgeted movies Paramount intends to make will be released theatrically.
I’m also curious how the film performs over time. The long tail model of download only releases is something I’ll be very interested to see data on.
