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  • Independent studios, including the small-budget "specialty" divisions of the major studios, saw their share of box-office revenue decline to 19% in 2010, from 33% in 2001, according to an analysis conducted for The Wall Street Journal by entertainment-research firmNash Information Services LLC.

    For Indie Films, Video-on-Demand Fills in Revenue Gap Ethan Smith 2011

  • Hugo Weaving does a couple of films and a play nearly every year (and dozens of voiceovers) but prefers small-budget Australian films like Last Ride and Little Fish.

    Hugo Weaving Exclusive Video Interview; Talks THE WOLFMAN and THE HOBBIT – Collider.com 2010

  • Anyone who contributed£25 could become an Executive Producer on the film, thus helping to get it made and build an audience outside the usual studio network that Hollywood films with mega-budgets are party to, and short small-budget films rarely get.

    My first stint as an Executive Producer: Oscar and Jim « One Size Fits One 2009

  • She also helped to cultivate a culture of making small-scale, small-budget films in her home country through her production company, Haos Film a name that's a play on both "chaos" and "house", founded in 2005.

    Tsangari Tackles Greek Taboos Leigh Dyer 2011

  • The "Best Movie Not Playing at a Theater Near You" opens Friday: Littlerock is the latest low-budget, high-aesthetic movie to display how small-budget cinema can still be formally ambitious.

    Tribeca Film: Found in Translation: Littlerock Tribeca Film 2011

  • The unusual styrofoam designs provided relatively inexpensive sets for small-budget theater groups, he said.

    Local set designer, Smithsonian archivist remembered Katherine Shaver 2011

  • What's more, no filmmaker can afford to make a small-budget 3D movie, either, because the cinema-owners who've shelled out big money to retrofit their auditoriums for 3D projection don't want to tie up their small supply of 3D screens with art-house movies.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • The "Best Movie Not Playing at a Theater Near You" opens Friday: Littlerock is the latest low-budget, high-aesthetic movie to display how small-budget cinema can still be formally ambitious.

    Tribeca Film: Found in Translation: Littlerock Tribeca Film 2011

  • Others were quirky, small-budget Web efforts that started small and became big, such Blendtec's "Will it Blend?"

    The Best-Ever Social Media Campaigns 2010

  • Others were quirky, small-budget Web efforts that started small and became big, such Blendtec's "Will it Blend?"

    The Best-Ever Social Media Campaigns 2010

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