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"The divisions of the major studios who have released 'art-house-type product' have poisoned the market by spending so much money to advertise those movies," indie producer Ira Deutchman has told Cincinatti City Beat's Jason Gargano. "It's become impossible for people with smaller movies to compete, and that's just thrown the whole market out of whack.

But -- get this -- the demise of the dependents may be a half-good thing, Deutchman feels.

"One of the things, frankly, that makes me slightly optimistic is that the studios seem to be retrenching a little bit right now. The fact that Picturehouse and Warner Independent have been put out of their misery and the fact that Paramount Vantage has been folded into Paramount, if it reduces the amount of companies that are actually spending that kind of money, it might actually reopen the market a little bit."