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"Black Gold" Gets Newsreel Deal

California Newsreel has nabbed U.S. theatrical and DVD rights to Nick Francis and Marc Francis "Black Gold," which debuted earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival. The film, in the words of an announcement, "explores the world of coffee, from the Ethiopian farmers who grow it, to the international coffee culture that has grown to make coffee a multibillion dollar business." Andrew Herwitz of the Film Sales Company brokered the deal on behalf of the filmmakers with Larry Daressa on behalf of California Newsreel. A deal is U.S. TV broadcast deal is also being negotiated. Next up for the film are screenings at Hot Docs this week and the ...

The Top Ten So Far...

Each Monday, 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. Thre...

Which of these things is not like the other?

The Guardian: Isabella Rossellini Interview

Isabella Rossellini's beauty is legendary, inherited from her mother, Ingrid Bergman. But it was for her father, the director Roberto Rossellini, that she developed an obsessive devotion. She talks to Dan Halpern about her film, "My Dad is 100 Years Old," and her extraordinary childhood, losing her ...

NY Times: American Indie Filmmakers: Thinking Globally and Acting Globally, Too

"'Man Push Cart,' 'In Between Days,' and 'Cavite' are among the most striking American independent movies of the past year, in part because they test the basic assumptions of what constitutes an American film (for starters, that it be in English or be set in the United States). The directors are fir...

AFP: Thief snatches filmmaker Amos Gitai's laptop and script

A bag snatcher stole Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai's laptop computer and the outlines of a script for a forthcoming film during a visit to Switzerland, his producer revealed. 'Two years of ideas have disappeared in one go,' said Jean-Louis Porchet of CAB Productions. The director of 'Kippur,' 'Kadosh...

A Lion in the House