Quote Originally Posted by stickyd
A large studio/distributor will primarily want to buy rights for say 10 years for a fixed price, say $10k or $30k a flick. The big studio/distributor will rarely make some "deal" where the content provider receives a cut or royalties. This means a lot of content producers hold onto their flicks in hopes to get them out there on their own, which is hard to do without a studio/distributor.

Why there is a difference between so many straight products making it to market versus gay, I don't know, but it might stem from the higher number of straight productions produced, or a lower number of gay production companies (content providers) who knock out titles on a freelance basis for studios/distributors.
$10k-30k per flick? That certainly can't be the cost to license to a content broker... that's gotta be for all distribution rights.