Despite the fact that 80 films were screened at the Sundance Film Festival last month, only eight filmmakers signed deals with one of the major indie distributors, Miramax, Fox Searchlight, Artisan Entertainment or Lions Gate, USA Today observed today (Monday). "Most films still out there are high quality, but they have questionable commercial quality," Mark Ordesky, president of Fine Line Features, told the newspaper. Several film makers are reportedly still plugging away, many of them dropping their prices in hopes of scoring any sort of distribution deal at all, according to the newspaper.

Source: Studio Briefing