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So those indie films definitely still get made, sometimes. But there's a big fucking asterisk attached to that. Fox searchlight and another of similar firms will buy movies that have already been made and give them a wider audience. A24 also produces films that would traditionally fly the insie circuit. But for the most part, these movies are being paid for by the people making them, and whether or not they ever see that money returned is purely a matter of luck.
Kevin Smith has a long story about how he managed to finance one of his movies only because he'd done a shitty Bruce Willis movie. And relatively speaking the movie the financed was peanuts compared to what some can cost.