Posted on September 10th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
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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Posted on September 10th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
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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Posted on September 8th, 2008 by Craig Kennedy
The ever vigilant Nick Plowman of Fataculture just gave me the heads up to Anne Thompson’s Variety report that Fox Searchlight beat out Lionsgate, Overture, The Weinsteins, Sony and others for the rights to distribute Darren Aronofsky’s much praised film The Wrestler starring Mickey Rourke, Evan Rachel Wood and Marisa Tomei.
Which studio’s logo appears on the film [...]
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