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Specialty Box office "Scoop"s Some "Sunshine"

Two studio specialty-film units - Fox Searchlight and Focus Features - took two very different approaches to opening their new comedies "Little Miss Sunshine" and "Scoop" last weekend and both worked, according to the latest indieWire Box Office Tracking Report (iWBOT) of independent/specialty films...

Filmmaker Magazine: 25 New Faces

On Filmmaker Magazine's anticipated annual 25 New Faces of Independent Film list this year are (with links to their site for content and contact info): [1 - 5] 1) Olivia Thirlby, 2) Linas Phillips, 3) Ham Tran, 4) So Yong Kim, 5) Scott Z. Burns, [6 - 10] 6) Antonio Campos, 7) Gary Huggins, 8) Carter Smith, 9) Astra Taylor, 10) Michele Civetta, [11 - 15] 11) Esther Robinson, 12) Alex Karpovsky, 13) Aurora Guerrero, 14) Eunhee Cho, 15) Neistat Brothers, [" TARGET="_blank">16 - 20] 16) Nee Brothers, 17) Pastor Brothers, 18) Michael Tully, 19) Paul Soter, 20) Lars Knudsen & Jay Van Hoy, [21 - 25] 21) John Maringouin, 22) Sameh Zoabi, 23) Kevin Je...

Fortissimo Selling "Hula Girls"

Fortissimo Films has acquired worldwide sales rights, excluding Japan and Korea, to Lee Sang-Il's feel-good film, "Hula Girls." Set in 1965, the film is based on actual events surrounding a move to build a Hawaiian tourist village in a Japanese coal mining town. In the film, a dance instructor teaches local young women to dance the Hula and along the way they "become a phenomenal success as heroes of their hometown, as well as an inspiration throughout Japan," according to an announcement. Produced by Cine Qua Non, the film will be released in Japan in September and includes music from the acclaimed Hawaiian ukulele musician Jake Shimabukuro....