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Box Office 2.0: The Biggest Stories of the 2009 Indie Box Office
Hollywood is in the midst of celebrating their first $10 billion year at the box office, with James Cameron's "Avatar" already the year's seventh $200 million grosser. But what of Indiewood? It's been a fascinating year at the specialty box office - both good and bad. There were success stories lik...
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Holiday Box Office: "Parnassus" Debuts Big; "Nine" Stumbles Wide
In the shadow of a stunning Christmas box office for Hollywood fare - with "Avatar," "Sherlock Holmes" and "Alvin and the Chipmunks 2" grossing a combined $190 million to make for the biggest weekend in box office history - specialty films had their own interesting holiday frame, though not all of i...
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Palm Springs Fest Unveils Competition Slates
The Palm Springs International Film Festival unveiled its competition slate and announced a new section highlighting Australian cinema. A final total of 188 films from 70 countries, including 41 of the 65 official submissions to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for Best Foreign Langua...
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Sundance Film Fest Adds Three
The Sundance Film Festival has added three more films to its slate. Gurinder Chadha's "It's A Wonderful Afterlife" Lisa Cholodenko's "The Kids Are Alright" and Galt Niederhoffer's "The Romantics" will screen out of competition at the fest taking place January 21 - 31 in Park City, Utah.
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Lorber Flaunts "Videocracy" for the U.S.
Lorber Films has acquired U.S. rights to Erik Gandini's doc "Videocracy" the company said Monday. Richard Lorber negotiated the deal with Susan Wendt, head of sales at TrustNordisk Films will open at the IFC Center in New York on February 12th, followed by a theatrical release across the U.S. The ...
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"Locker" Leads Eclectic Satellite Winners
Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" led the winners of the Golden Satellite Awards, taking honors for best picture drama, best director, best actor (Jeremy Renner), and best film editing. Rob Marshall's "Nine" had led the nominations (taking 11), and went home with two awards - best picture comedy o...
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Box Office: "Nine" Just Fine In Busy Pre-Xmas Weekend
More than a dozen specialty films - most of them basking in the glow of varying amounts of Golden Globe, SAG and critics notices - competed in the shadow of east coast snowstorms and James Cameron's "Avatar" this weekend (just a quick non-indie fyi: "Avatar" grossed a massive $232 million worldwide ...
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"The Greatest" Coming to Theaters in March
Shana Feste’s "The Greatest," starring Pierce Brosnan, Susan Sarandon, and Carey Mulligan, will be released theatrically by Paladin, the company's President and CEO Mark Urman said Friday. Plans are for a late March initial release, then followed by an early April expansion. National Entertainment M...
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"Prodigal Sons" Comes Home to First Run
First Run Features will release the documentary “Prodigal Sons” in late February 2010 in New York followed by a nationwide rollout through March, the company unveiled. Directed and produced by Kimberly Reed, “Prodigal Sons” follows Kimberly, a transgender woman, as she travels to her high school reu...
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Magnet Brings "Survival" for the U.S.
U.S. rights to George A. Romero's zombie feature "George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead" have been picked up by Magnolia Pictures' genre label Magnet Releasing. bowed at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals earlier this year. Magnolia's SVP Tom Quinn negotiated the pact with Victoria Cook for Cin...
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