ROLLING YOUR OWN: Here’s an interesting article on a Hollywood bigshot’s decision to go independent. His film was rather more expensive than my wife’s documentary was (he was paying Screen Actors’ Guild members, etc.), but still cheap by Hollywood standards. His conclusion: “I’d do it again in a heartbeat.”

In the past five years or so, the home-studio revolution has had more and more bigshot musicians doing their own recordings. I wonder if we’ll start to see the same dynamic apply to the movie industry.