The 2006 Woodstock Film Festival, running from October 11 - 15, will open with the East Coast premiere of Doug McGrath's "Infamous," the Killer Films/John Wells Production based on George Plimpton's Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances and Detractors Recall His Turbulent C...
Read More »Each week, indieWIRE receives the final weekend numbers for specialty releases in theaters. This is our top ten for the past weekend so far, with most numbers already in. The top ten is subject to change before the final chart is published tomorrow and the weekly box office column is written. Weeken...
Read More »Entries are being accepted for the 31st Cleveland International Film Festival (March 15 - 25), one of the longest running in the U.S. The early deadline for submissions is August 31 and regular deadline, September 30 (with late and extended deadlines set at October 31 and November 30). For more info...
Read More »The world premiere of Philip Haas' "The Situation" will open the 14th annual Hamptons International Film Festival (October 18 - 22), organizers announced today. Haas' "Situation," set for a U.S. release early next year by Shadow Distribution, is described as a thriller, romance and war movie set in ...
Read More »Director Bill Sherwood's 1986 film, "Parting Glances," and The Mariposa Film Group's "Word is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives" (1978) will be the first two gay films restored under a program by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and Outfest, dubbed the Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation. The project has already established the world's largest publicly accessible collection of LGBT films since its establishment in 2005, according to a release by the groups. LGBT independent films - including significant titles from the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s - are in particular peril because of a perceived lack of commercial value by the indus...
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