By the end of 2013, FilmDistrict would be gone. The struggles it faced were not exclusively its own. They were shared with other movie studios that began at the dawn of the decade like Relativity Media, CBS Films, Open Road Films, and even a relaunched version of DreamWorks Pictures that distributed its works through Disney’s Touchstone Pictures. All of them set out at the start of the 2010s with high hopes of being someone who could shake up the film industry. By the end of the 2010s, none of them would exist anymore as independent distributors, save for Open Road Films existing as a skeleton of its former self. How did we get here? How did so many promising studios fall prey to dissolution?
BY DOUGLAS LAMAN – Collider.com
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