{
  "id": 2414483,
  "title": "Inside Letterboxd’s Unlikely Distribution Pipeline: How ‘It Ends’ and Other Gems Found Their Way to a Deal",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/inside-letterboxds-unlikely-distribution-pipeline-how-it-ends-and",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-21T18:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "IndieWire",
    "slug": "indiewire",
    "url": "https://www.indiewire.com/features/interviews/letterboxd-distribution-pipeline-it-ends-1235212138/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Letterboxd's Courtney Mayhew and George Linehan-Mitchell, along with \"Lemonade Blessing\" filmmaker Chris Merola, spoke with IndieWire about how the company's Video Store has become a real, if unpredictable, alternative to the traditional festival-to-distributor pipeline.",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}