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PARK CITY '07 REVIEW | Bad, Bad Boy: George Ratliff's "Joshua"

At many film festivals, Cannes comes to mind; audiences would openly jeer a disastrous movie like director George Ratliff's unintentionally silly, bad seed horror drama "Joshua." At Sundance, where the film made its premiere over the weekend, the audience I sat with was polite and only laughed at al...

PARK CITY '07 DAILY DISPATCH | UPDATE: From Serious to Silly, A Range of Emotions Evoked During Sund

As the opening weekend of Sundance 2007 came to a close, buyers were circling a number of new festival films. As usual, the first few of days saw a number of acquisitions. As announced on Sunday in indieWIRE, The Weinstein Company quickly jumped on James C. Strouse's Sundance dramatic competition fe...

Magnolia Pictures Nabs North American Rights to "Crazy Love"

Magnolia Pictures has picked up North American rights to Dan Klores' Sundance doc competition film "Crazy Love" in a mid-six-figure deal, confirming speculation over the weekend in Park City that the company had acquired the film. The company's president Eamonn Bowles as well as head of acquisitions, Tom Quinn and head of business affairs, Jason Janego negotiated the deal with Klores and Endeavor Independent's Graham Taylor and Mark Ankner. Foreign sales are being handled by Andrew Herwitz of The Film Sales Company. "Crazy Love" tells the story of the obsessive roller-coaster relationship of Burt and Linda Pugach. Burt, a 32 year-old married ...

PARK CITY '07 INTERVIEW | Petr Lom: "Leaving the safety net of my life in the university for a freel

[EDITORS NOTE: indieWIRE is publishing two interviews daily with Sundance '07 competition filmmakers through the end of the festival later this month. Directors with films screening in the four competition section were given the opportunity to participate in an email interview, and each was sent the...

PARK CITY '07 REVIEW | Forecasting the End: Daniel B. Gold and Judith Helfand's "Everything's Cool"

It snowed in Malibu on the day leading up to the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, unexpected publicity for directors Daniel B. Gold and Judith Helfand's timely but surprisingly misguided global warming documentary "Everything's Cool." Playing bookend to the similarly themed "An Inconvenient Truth," abo...

Maverick Films to Co-produce Winning Scripts from Slamdance Horror Screenwriting Competition

Maverick Films will jointly finance and co-produce a feature film based on the annual winning script from the newly-created Slamdance Horror Screenplay Competition, with Slamdance and Angel Baby Films. Maverick Films has recently launched Maverick Red, a new division based solely on the horror genre. The premiere of each film will take place at the following year's Slamdance Film Festival. Previous winners from Slamdance Screenplay Competitions include Joshua Marston's "Maria Full of Grace" and "The Woodsman", written by Nicole Kassell and Stephen Fetcher. Though the creation of the Horror Screenplay Competition is new, it will build off the ...

iW VIDEO: Slamdancer's Talk About What Makes Their Festival Special; iW Reviews "Weapons," iPOP Capt

In today's issue of iW: VIDEO On The Scene at Park City, Slamdance Co-Founder Dan Mirvish, President and Co-founder Peter Baxter, and other Slamdancers talks about what makes their festival special, indieWIRE writer Anthony Kaufman reviews "Weapons," iPOP hits Friday night's parties, and more.

Weinstein Company Takes Worldwide Rights to Sundance '07 Feature "Grace is Gone"

Worldwide rights to James C. Strouse's Sundance dramatic competition feature "Grace is Gone" have been acquired by The Weinstein Company, the company's co-chairman Harvey Weinstein announced Sunday afternoon. The worldwide deal has been pegged at $4 million. Weinstein, Michael Cole, co-head of production, and Michelle Krumm, EVP of acquisitions and co-productions, negotiated the deal on behalf of The Weinstein Company, while Cinetic Media and William Morris Agency represented the filmmakers in negotiations. Starring John Cusack, Alessandro Nivola, Shelan O'Keefe and Gracie Bednarczyk, the film is described as a "heart-wrenching drama about a ...