According to Variety, fading DVD rental behemoth Blockbuster Video has signed a two-year deal with indie distributor IFC Films that will make it the exclusive rental outlet for IFC titles.
For 60 days following a DVD’s release date, Blockbuster will control digital and physical rentals and the title will not be available for retail. For a three year [...]

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Karina at SpoutBlog points us to this little bowl-circling floater at Movie City News and I was suddenly reminded why I rarely read David Poland. Most of us see the recently announced September 12th wide-release of Joel and Ethan Coen’s Burn After Reading as cause for celebration, but Poland puts on his Oscar colored spectacles and [...]

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I seem to recall the Tribeca Film Festival taking a fair amount of crap in recent years for some of their selections. The US premiere of Spider-Man 3 last year, for example.
Well, if the trailer is to be taken at face value, Tribeca has sunk to a new low this year with its opening-night film: Tina Fey [...]

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That’s too bad because, according to a boring business report in Variety, it cost $49.2 million on average for one of the studios’ specialty divisions to crank out a movie in 2007. That’s a 60% increase over 2006. Meanwhile, marketing jumped 44% to $25.7 million.
The article doesn’t say what the average studio picture cost (and [...]

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According to The Hollywood Reporter, SAG said Tuesday that it will offer guaranteed-completion contracts to producers of independent projects allowing them to finish their films if production goes beyond June 30th when the actor’s current contract with the AMPTP expires. These contracts will enable indie producers to get the financing and completion bonds required to [...]

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