Dispelling any doubt that Warner Bros. is hoping for a little hardcore Oscar action for The Dark Knight, THR’s Carl DiOrio is reporting that the studio plans to re-release their blockbuster superhero film in January during the lead up to the Oscar nominations.
With nearly $513 million in the bank as of this writing, those hoping [...]

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Feihong Yu and Henry O in Wayne Wang’s A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
(photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures)
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, the latest film from indie icon Wayne Wang (Chan is Missing, Dim Sum, The Joy Luck Club) opens in New York on September 19 and Los Angeles on September 26 while a [...]

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The other day I passed along news of the much improved critical reaction at Toronto to Fernando Meirelles’ Blindness which has been re-edited and de-voiceovered since it got a mixed response at Cannes. Now according to an email I just received, Miramax has dropped the planned September 26 limited release of the film and it will be opening wide [...]

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Forget about the rumors that Magnolia would be distributing Steven Soderbergh’s Che. Variety’s Pamela McLintock is reporting this morning that IFC has picked the film up for distribution in North America and plans a one-week Oscar qualifying run in NY and LA in December.
IFC will then release the film in theaters and through video-on-demand in January. [...]

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I’m liking the idea of compiling the odd development, production and distribution tidbits into one post so Loose Ends might become an irregular feature. Here’s what’s been going on for the last few days:
Summit Entertainment has picked up US rights to The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow’s well-received Iraq action picture about a bomb squad in [...]

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Trailer Addict has the spare and minimalist trailer for Steve McQueen’s Cannes 2008 Camera d’Or winning film Hunger:

Hunger tells the story of Bobby Sands, who went on a hunger strike in 1981 in an effort to get the British government to recognize members of the IRA as political prisoners. The film was picked up by [...]

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