The Death of Hollywood- Guest Post Zac Martin

This is a guest post from Zac Martin at Pigs Don't Fly.

I think my readers are starting to get over the number of deaths I've predicted recently. Television is the big one, but newspapers, magazines, home phones, Gen X and books have all made my hit list. So when Juju kindly asked me to write a guest post I jumped at the chance to vent another death without annoying my usual audience.

This week, it's the cinema we'll be writing a eulogy for.

The first fatal sign was Dr Horrible, an online and highly successful series I wrote about last July. And now the wound that won't stop bleeding is The Hunt for Gollum. With a budget of just £3,000 and a lot of volunteers and hard work, a team of independent directors have created a 38 minute prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy that could be mistaken for Peter Jackson's work. Well worth half and hour of your time, even if you're not a Lord of the Rings geek.

It was released exclusively online this week for free with the intent of being a movie "by fans for fans" and therefore is completely not for profit. However if it weren't for the legal issues and it was their intention, monetising it would not have been a problem.

This is UGC at its greatest. Independent, low budget, entertaining content produced at a level on par with the terrible Wolverine movie I watched at the cinema last night.

RIP Hollywood.