And finally, our visible presence on major retail shelves (especially Wal-Mart), is becomming a far better tool when pursuing new title acquisitions, than the absurd pursuit of films during a festival feeding-frenzy (wherein a film like "Twelve" can be bid up-and-up to well past it's reasonable market value). Commercial titles for the home video / VOD market, aquired and released with modest investments, are providing a solid-foundation for the business.
Perhaps EP has found a more financially advantageous way of HHSE acquiring movies than the film festival route.