The Release

Your comment on "art" vs. commercial films is idealistic and unrealistic. Who do you think finances this "art" films. If it's not the studio offshoots, Picturehouse, Vantage, Sony Classics, Fox Searchlight, then it's a group of doctors, lawyers, or large Wall Street investors. In other words, rarely if ever, the artist.

Obviously, this leads to a certain responsibility to the investor, if the artist desires to see his film get distribution, and more importantly, the ability to make another one. So Hollywood and the artists it supports have a co-dependent relationship, like it or not.

Of course there are always certain tasteless "suits" who will try to inflict their opinion on a film in order to better its odds of a return to investors, but have the interest of the artists at heart as well, because nobody wants to anger them for fear that they flee to a rival agency/studio. That's pretty well covered in the Entourage series and there are treatises on how FEAR is behind every move "Hollywood" makes.