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"Kids" & "Despicable" Bookend Los Angeles Film Festival Lineup
UPDATED 2:38pm EDT: Over 200 features, shorts and music videos are on tap for the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival, taking place at its new home at L.A. LIVE in downtown Los Angeles. Focus Features' Sundance 2010 feature "The Kids Are All Right" will open the event June 17 at the Premiere Theater at R...
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Lorber Films Croons to Hot Docs' "Socalled Movie"
Doc "The 'Socalled' Movie" has been picked up by Lorber Films. Directed by Garry Beitel, the film is having its North American debut at Hot Docs in Toronto, currently underway. The National Film Board of Canada's Christina Rogers negotiated the deal with Elizabeth Sheldon, Vice President of Kino Lor...
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Outfest Gets a "HOWL"ing Opener
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Allen Ginsberg-inspired "Howl" will open the 28th Outfest, the Los Angeles LGBT film festival at the Orpheum Theatre on July 8th in Downtown LA.
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Redford, Scorsese, De Niro, Coppola Call on Iran to Free Imprisoned Filmmaker
With the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Manhattan today at the United Nations, a group of leading filmmakers have risen to the defense of one of their own after his arrest in March.
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Box Office: Holofcener's "Give" Pleases Audiences; "Centipede" Takes $12.5K (UPDATED)
Specialty filmgoers certainly had a varied selection of options hitting arthouses this weekend. On the one end, there was Nicole Holofcener's "Please Give," a light-hearted morality tale about a bunch of inter-connected New Yorkers negotiating the guilt in their lives. And the other, well, there wa...
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Welcome Todd McCarthy!
It's in the official press release (see page two), but let me write it again here: I'm thrilled to be working with Todd McCarthy. It's truly an honor for all of us at indieWIRE and SnagFilms.
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Tribeca Fest Honors "When We Leave" & "Monica and David"
Expressing "gratitude" and "surprise," German director Feo Aladag's "When We Leave" (Die Fremde) took the Tribeca Film Festival's Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature, while American director Alexandra Codina's "Monica & David" won Best Documentary Feature at a ceremony in Manhattan's Union Squ...
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Ahead of Cannes Debut, Liman's "Fair Game" Finds a Home
Summit Entertainment has nabbed distribution rights to the political thriller "Fair Game" in both North America and five foreign territories. Directed by Doug Liman, the film is set to officially premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival next month.
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Seattle Sets 406 Films For Massive 36th Edition of Fest
The 36th edition of the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) promises to lay claim to holding the title as the largest and most highly attended event of its kind in the US. Running from May 20 through June 13, SIFF will present 256 features (both documentary and narrative) and 150 short films ...
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"Toy Story," "Extra Man" To Jointly Open Nantucket Film Festival
The 15th annual Nantucket Film Festival (June 17-20), whose mission it is to spotlight screenwriters, announced its official opening and closing night films as well as a preview of their lineup. The eclectic list of films run the gamut from blockbuster comedies to intimate documentaries.
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