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Following “Bubble” through the Window

February 28, 2006 by Jim Connelly

Just a few scant weeks after Steven Soderbergh’s “Bubble” was available simultaneously to theatres, cable and video, here comes another major test for what they are calling the “day and date” strategy of multi-platform releasing.   IFC and Comcast have announced a deal to release several indie films this year to both their theatres and cable on-demand services on the same day.

“Bubble” could have been written-off as an anomaly, a confluence of a maverick director and a maverick eccentric billionaire (Mark Cuban), but this, my friend, this is a trend.

And it will work because indie film people who live in areas who that don’t have a lot of theatres that show indie film, but happen to have Comcast cable (like, say, in Fresno, California) can watch the first-run movies that they’ve been reading about on various film sites and not have to wait months for the DVD to show up.

This could be the same boon to indie film that iTunes and eMusic are to indie rock.

  • Comcast, IFC Entertainment reaches deal

 

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