However, the definition of the term gradually widened to encompass any film not funded from Hollywood, not lasting for the prescribed 90 minutes, not released through the main theater chains, and generally made outside of the mainstream commercial system.
不過，以後這個名詞的定義逐漸變得更寬廣，只要是資金不來自好萊塢，或者電影不在九十分鐘結束、不打算做商業院線放映，獨立於商業體系之外的電影都稱為獨立製片。