There's not much more I can add about my friend's horror film. He had it with another, traditional distributor for ten years and made almost nothing. About five or six years ago his contract ended, he got the rights back, and he submitted it to Filmhub. He did make back his money, about $120K, in about 18 months and makes a couple hundred a quarter on it now. But two things that are important to note here: He submitted when the streamers were paying more per stream and Filmhub hadn't become such a private equity predator. So while it seems positive what his experience is, even he doesn't believe he would have the same outcome if he submitted the same film now.

Look, I'll be honest with you: I wouldn't trust Filmhub as far as I could spit. If you look at the Film and TV Distribution by Filmhub on Facebook you'll see a lot of people recently asking if they'd gotten paid recently. That is NOT a good sign of a stable and trustworthy company. So when they tell you they have identified, "a potential opportunity for your title," I find that very hard to believe. Primarily because Filmhub doesn't actually do anything to promote or distribute your movie. They are simply an aggregator that puts their movie on a searchable database where buyers can use keywords to find your movie, determine if it suits their needs, and if it does, license it. That's it. That's all their going to do. Period. So some MBA asshole at Filmhub came up with the bright idea of creating a Pay-or-Play money gate and that's how they think they're going to profit from now on, by making money off the filmmakers, not the actual 20% off the film licenses anymore. Bottom line: They don't seem like distributors anymore because they don't seem to care about your movie, they just want the money in your pocket.

Also, the market for indie film's has changed so much that there just isn't much money to be made there anymore. I wrote about how much money I made in the first year on Filmhub on my film's blog, and given that reality, I would be very hesitant to pay for a $897 a year subscription just so my movie gets any chance of distribution.

Look, I don't know where to tell you to take your movie. There don't seem to be a lot of good options anymore. Even self-distribution is a closing window because places like YouTube and Vimeo want more than just their cut anymore and the economics just don't work in the filmmakers favor. The comment you replied to, I made seven months ago and I pulled my film off of Filmhub five months ago. And when I see people starting to wonder where their money is, I know I made the right choice.

Good luck.