Film to be distributed via games console for first time

[Jazzy]

An independent British film is being released via a digital games console platform, rather than through the cinema or DVDs, for the first time.



Pulp, a comedy about a struggling comic book publisher recruited by the police to bust a crime syndicate, will be available to Xbox 360 Live subscribers.



Creator Adam Hamdy says the avenues to allow British independent films to get to audiences have narrowed.



Microsoft says it will be distributing more films this way in the future.



Adam Hamdy admits that as an up and coming film maker it is getting harder to get movies seen.



He said: At the top end of the indie film business the UK is still pretty healthy, but it's the middle tier and the lower budget tier that's struggling.



Where they would have been released straight to DVD, the opportunities for doing that have really declined.



Retailers have gone out of business because of the threat of piracy and because of legitimate digital downloading.



There has been a decline in the middle to lower budget tier of films that used to get made.

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What do you think of this idea?

 

[Evil Eye]

Seems like a pretty good idea to make some money.

Plenty of people own Xboxes after all.