Cinema Reloaded, an experiment in raising production funds through crowd-sourcing, has been the festival's flagship online programme this year.
Bill Moyers is ending his weekly Friday show at the end of April, and PBS canceled the companion "Now on PBS," which was having trouble raising production funds.
The Open Space eventually imploded in 1977 in what became known as the Pink Bathroom Scandal, when Marowitz was accused by a newspaper of purchasing with production funds a bathroom suite for his personal use.
Unlike most Hollywood production companies, Alcon which was also involved with "The Book of Eli," released by Warner last month provides its own print and advertising money (rather than relying on a studio's), along with production funds.
On another front, Mr. Sloan and Mary Parent, chairman of MGM's motion pictures group, may be able to tap some of United Artists' production funds to help meet their own goal of releasing as many as a dozen homegrown movies a year by 2010.
In actual fact, it took a further $260m around the rest of the world – but New Line's common practice of selling off international rights (in the UK, to Entertainment Films) to help raise production funds meant that the figures still came up short as far as Time Warner were concerned.
