Three new American independent feature films from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival will debut on YouTube even before audiences get a chance to see the movies at the festival in Park City, UT. Launching this Friday for VOD rental online in the United States - from this year's Sundance fest - are Micha...
Read More »In a breath of fresh air from most other 2009 awards came via the International Cinephile Society today, who announced their nominees for the best in film for last year. Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" led the field with 10 nominations, followed by Joel & Ethan Coen's "A Serious Man," Kat...
Read More »Twenty-six films will screen in competition at the upcoming Berlin International Film Festival. In addition to the seven competition films announced last month including Roman Polanski's latest, "The Ghost Writer," 18 titles were unveiled Wednesday. Twelve world premieres from around the world among...
Read More »Ahead of this week's Sundance Film Festival, veteran film distribution and marketing consultant Richard Abramowitz is launching, with Kirt Eftekhar, a new domestic distribution company dubbed Area23a.
Read More »U.S. rights to Gaspar Noe's Sundance 2010 feature "Enter the Void" has been picked up by IFC Films, the company announced ahead of its debut in the festival's Spotlight section. The film is the director's follow-up to the 2002 award-winning and controversial film, "Irreversible." IFC Films' Arianna ...
Read More »North American rights to "The Square" has been picked up by Apparition, the company said Tuesday. Described as a "stylish, twist-filled noir," the film is the first feature film from Australian stuntman-turned-director Nash Edgerton and actor/writer Joel Edgerton. Apparition will release the 2009 SX...
Read More »The 60th Berlin International Film Festival will kick off with the world premiere of the Chinese Competition film "Tuan Yuan" (Apart Together) in the Berlinale Palast on February 11, 2010. "Yuan" is the latest film by Wang Quan'an, who also participated in the Berlinale Competition in 2007 with "Tuy...
Read More »This Thursday, the independent film industry will once again turn its attention over to Park City and the 113 feature films screening at the Sundance Film Festival. Deals will be made, big indie box office hopes will result, and another year of hits and misses will follow. But before we head into ...
Read More »After an under-the radar Academy run in December, awards hopeful "The Last Station" made its official debut this MLK weekend. Distributor Sony Classics seemed to carefully plot out the film among its diverse quartet of late year releases, and it appears to have so far worked out. Their other relea...
Read More »Louie Psihoyos' "The Cove" won the top award at the 2010 Cinema Eye Honors, honored as the best feature documentary of the year tonight at the Times Center in New York City. The film's producers, Paula DuPre Pressman and Fisher Stevens, won the award for outstanding production at the annual ceremony...
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