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iW THIS WEEK | In The News: A Trio of Deals, and a Foreign Film Drought

A handful of acquisitions were announced this week, with Magnolia Pictures announcing a deal for U.S. rights to Richard Roxburgh's "Romulus, My Father" and sibling unit Truly Indie announced that it will handle the release of Terry Sanders doc, "Fighting For Life." Also, Jeff Nichols' "Shotgun Stories" has secured distribution via Upload Films and Liberation Entertainment. In his monthly world cinema column, Anthony Kaufman noted that while cinemas are overloaded with specialty releases this fall, "Foreign cinema lovers are facing a severe drought in U.S. movie theaters." And, at the weekly box office, the Coen Brothers "No Country For Old Me...

iW THIS WEEK | New in Theaters: "Margot at the Wedding," What Would Jesus Buy?" "Southland Tales," "

Among this week's specialty releases coming to theaters, indieWIRE ran into a bit of controversy with a not so flattering Review of "Southland Tales" from Reverse Shot editor (and Magnolia Pictures exec Jeff Reichert. Read the review and check out the long list of comments at the end. The film's director Richard Kelly, meanwhile called the film "a strange cousin to 'Donnie Darko' in a way" in a Profile during an appearance as part of indieWIRE's series of filmmaker Q & A sessions at Apple Store Soho. Also profiled (and reivewed) this week was "Margot at the Wedding" director Noah Baumbach who said of his work, "...I just feel I write better a...

iW THIS WEEK | Awards Watch Re-Cap: Spielberg Gets a Globe; Spirits Go Green; "Todd" Sneaks a Peek

Looking at happenings on the Awards Watch front... Among this week's news, Steven Spielberg was announced as the recipient of the Golden Globes' Cecil B. DeMille Award, while the Spirit Awards announced plans to go green. On the blog front, Tim Burton showed 17 minutes of the still unfinished "Sweeney Todd", allowing attendee Tom O'Neill to proclaim it the Oscar frontrunner. O'Neill's fellow Los Angeles Times' blogger Pete Hammond discussed the state of the indie and Oscar, while Sasha Stone of AwardsDaily considered the dipping chances of "There Will Be Blood." Newsweek's Oscar blog suggested "No Country For Old Men" and "Atonement" were bes...

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indieWIRE INTERVIEW | "Smiley Face" Director Gregg Araki

Casually chatting with indieWIRE back at Sundance in January, hours before his latest feature "Smiley Face" would screen for the first time, filmmaker Gregg Araki warned that the film is a departure from his acclaimed previous feature, "Mysterious Skin." After watching it in Park City, we referred t...

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NY NY | Lee and Schamus Talk "Lust, Caution," Baumbach Goes "Margot" at MoMA and Burton Flashes some

This was an auteur-filled week in New York. Director Ang Lee was humble and Focus chief James Schamus was hilarious on Friday night in their conversation with the Museum of the Moving Image about "Lust, Caution." Noah Baumbach, meanwhile was a bit sheepish and a bit prickly at the Museum of Modern A...