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Why Consider Investing in Minty: The Assassin?
Minty: The Assassin could be best described as an intelligent indie film disguised as an outrageous B-movie. We all know what indie films are. They are movies made outside of the Hollywood studio system with a modest budget. But what are B-movies?
Well, B-movies are an interesting cinematic phenomenon. Originally, B-movies were a category of motion pictures during the Golden Age of Hollywood that were produced for relatively little money and distributed as the “bottom half” of a double feature. Today, the term B-movie has evolved into two paradoxical connotations; it can describe a film that is made without any artistic merit, such as the film Showgirls or it can be used to describe an outrageous film that isn’t artistically constrained by multi-million dollar budgets and challenges the audience with subject matter untouched by “serious” independent films such as Bound.
Minty: The Assassin is somewhere in between an independent film and a B-movie. As an indie film, it has intelligent dialogue that covers topics such as quantum physics and neuroscience. And as a B-movie, it’s an in-your-face, fanboy dream come true, about punk rock lesbians and martial arts. Minty: The Assassin will be a film you have never seen before.
Walk into any nationwide store chain, such as Best Buy, Target, or Wal-Mart and you’ll notice that B-movies take up perhaps 25-35% of the shelf space. You may find a B-movie like Red Lips: Eat the Living sitting right next to an A-grade film such as Ring: Collector’s Edition. Nationwide stores stock B-movies on their shelves because they generate sales. Since Minty: The Assassin is also a B-movie, it has a solid chance of being profitable in that market.
Also, like fine wine, movies improve with age. A feature length film with a distribution offer does not stop earning money -- for a lifetime. As time goes on, actors in the film may go on do other films -- any one of which can be a smash hit. Once that happens, an interest in your film can reignite and produce more sales. As you may know, Sylvester Stallone, Francis Ford Coppola, Sam Raimi, and many other actors and directors launched their film careers through B–movies.
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