The time is now to diversify into mainstream indie niche films. Low budget ( in the $25-99k range)
and getting 30%-50% return on investment. It is possible and it is very doable. Repeatable templates being built right now.
I've seen a company raise $1 million in crowdfunding putting out 3 films a year. Low budgeted horrors and action. But what they haven't added to the pie is the ability to create ancillary merchandise based on the intellectual properties or base it off existing IPs such as comic books.
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I left the webmaster game about 8 years ago, been crowdfunding $xxx,xxx a year since then in publishing comics, optioned a few IPs to Hollywood, but it is so damn slow and too much red tape. Just going at it myself and the beautiful thing about it, I own all my new properties outright and if I produce my own films/ tv/ web series that is just even more juice to build on.