http://www.indiewire.com/ indieWIRE: filmmakers. biz. fans. en Copyright 2010 2010-02-09T20:25:53+00:00 http://www.indiewire.com/article/box_office_chart_february_9_2010/ http://www.indiewire.com/article/box_office_chart_february_9_2010/#When:22:59:03Z News, Box Office 2010-02-09T22:59:03+00:00 http://www.indiewire.com/article/roadside_to_bow_a_princess/ http://www.indiewire.com/article/roadside_to_bow_a_princess/#When:20:25:53Z U.S. rights to writer/director Marc Forby's Hawaiian biopic "Princess Kaiulani" have been picked up by Roadside Attractions. Roadside will release the film theatrically in late spring of 2010 and Lionsgate will release the film on DVD and other US ancillary markets through Roadside's output deal. The film had its world premiere last fall at the Hawaii International Film Festival, where it won an Audience Award. Roadside's co-Presidents Eric d'Arbeloff and Howard ... News, Acquisitions 2010-02-09T20:25:53+00:00 http://www.indiewire.com/article/haunted_house_michael_palmieri_and_donal_moshers_october_country/ http://www.indiewire.com/article/haunted_house_michael_palmieri_and_donal_moshers_october_country/#When:20:18:43Z The type of introspective, intimate domestic American nonfiction that has sprouted up so much in art-house theaters in the wake of the success of "Capturing the Friedmans" has come to typify documentary filmmaking of the past decade. Itself somewhat of an acolyte of the far more sensitive "Crumb," which at least foregrounded its inevitable grotesquerie, Andrew Jarecki's sensational depiction of an upper-middle-class Jewish family torn apart by intimations of child molestation ... Documentary, Reviews, In Theaters 2010-02-09T20:18:43+00:00 http://www.indiewire.com/ipop/photo/berlin/ http://www.indiewire.com/ipop/photo/berlin/#When:19:32:29Z Blast to the Past: Berlin International Film Festival head Dieter Kosslick gave a sign of peace at the opening of the 2008 Berlinale with Berlin programmer (and now MoMA Film Department head) Rajendra Roy. The festival opens Thursday with the world premiere of "Tuan Yuan" (Apart Together) in the Berlinale Palast and closes with "Otouto" (About Her Brother) by Yoji Yamada February 21. [indieWIRE will be On the Scene with daily dispatches beginning later this week.] Berlin 2010-02-09T19:32:29+00:00 http://www.indiewire.com/article/life_and_death_delayed/ http://www.indiewire.com/article/life_and_death_delayed/#When:18:38:26Z It has been a controversial path to theatrical release for Lu Chaun's "City of Life and Death." The film - which National Geographic picked up just prior to its international premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival - had been scheduled to make its theatrical debut at New York City's Film Forum on March 31, 2010. But late last week, the Film Forum announced the engagement had been cancelled, explaining that ... News 2010-02-09T18:38:26+00:00 http://www.indiewire.com/article/the_cove_finally_heads_to_japan/ http://www.indiewire.com/article/the_cove_finally_heads_to_japan/#When:18:16:24Z The Works International has announce the acquisition of Louie Psihoyos's Academy Award-nominated documentary "The Cove" by Japanese distributor Medallion Media. Medallion is planning a tentative release date of April 2010 in Japan. Until now, Japanese distributors have shied away from the documentary, which uncovers dolphin slaughtering in a Japanese village, and was the source of significant controversy in the country when it was included in the line-up of the 2009 Tokyo ... Documentary, News, Acquisitions 2010-02-09T18:16:24+00:00 http://www.indiewire.com/article/the_return_of_new_yorker_films/ http://www.indiewire.com/article/the_return_of_new_yorker_films/#When:17:46:26Z Nearly a year after closing its doors, New Yorker Films is back in business. Jose Lopez, longtime VP at New Yorker Films alongside founder Dan Talbot, is the new president of the new New Yorker Films in the wake of the company's name and library being acquired by California based Aladdin Distribution LLC. Talbot is no longer involved in the business but has given his blessing to the re-organized New Yorker ... News 2010-02-09T17:46:26+00:00 http://www.indiewire.com/article/film_movement_sashays_to_dance/ http://www.indiewire.com/article/film_movement_sashays_to_dance/#When:17:14:07Z British director Beadie Finzi's Portuguese-language doc feature "Only When I Dance" has been picked up by North American distributor Film Movement. The film, which features several young ballet prospects, including Irlan Silva, who is currently touring with the junior company of American Ballet Theater, will have a limited theatrical release and Video on Demand release in the Summer of 2010. Film Movement's president Adley Gartenstein and VP of distribution, Rebeca Conget ... News, Acquisitions 2010-02-09T17:14:07+00:00 http://www.indiewire.com/article/terribly_happys_ruben_genz_i_wanted_to_base_a_film_in_this_powerful_and_hos/ http://www.indiewire.com/article/terribly_happys_ruben_genz_i_wanted_to_base_a_film_in_this_powerful_and_hos/#When:16:24:12Z Submitted by Denmark as the country's official selection for the Academy Awards' foreign language film category, Henrik Ruben Genz's "Terribly Happy" opened in New York City last weekend, and expands to Los Angeles and San Francisco on Friday. The film - released through Oscilloscope Pictures - found great success on the festival circuit, winning awards at the Chicago International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Festróia - Tróia International Film ... Features, Interviews 2010-02-09T16:24:12+00:00 http://www.indiewire.com/article/cinemadaily_zinns_people_speak/ http://www.indiewire.com/article/cinemadaily_zinns_people_speak/#When:14:39:02Z "Proudly, unabashedly radical, with a mop of white hair and bushy eyebrows and an impish smile, Mr. Zinn, who retired from the history faculty at Boston University two decades ago, delighted in debating ideological foes, not the least his own college president, and in lancing what he considered platitudes, not the least that American history was a heroic march toward democracy." reads the two-week old New York Times obituary for legendary ... Features, cinemadaily 2010-02-09T14:39:02+00:00 http://www.indiewire.com/article/true_false_fest_announces_impressive_lineup_of_docs/ http://www.indiewire.com/article/true_false_fest_announces_impressive_lineup_of_docs/#When:22:56:50Z Fresh off the heels of Sundance, the 2010 True/False Film Festival opens Thursday, February 25, 2010 in Columbia, MO, loaded with an impressive number of sneak previews and recently debuted documentaries, including two Sundance favorites, US Documentary Grand Jury Prize winner "Restrepo," chronicling a year in Afghanistan's deadliest valley, with co-director Tim Hetherington, and US Documentary Special Jury Prize winner "GasLand," Josh Fox's natural gas expose of "a rapacious industry before ... Documentary, Features, Lineups, Festivals 2010-02-08T22:56:50+00:00 http://www.indiewire.com/article/barefoot_to_timbuktu_director_martina_egi/ http://www.indiewire.com/article/barefoot_to_timbuktu_director_martina_egi/#When:19:13:32Z Martina Egi's debut documentary "Barefoot to Timbuktu" tells the story of Ernst Aebi, a Swiss-American artist, who in the 1980s set out on a journey in the Sahara where he stumbled upon Araouane, a historical settlement in the desert, where he settled and strove to improve living conditions for the people there before being forced to leave when war broke out in Mali in the early 90s. The film chronicles Aebi's ... Features, Interviews 2010-02-08T19:13:32+00:00 http://www.indiewire.com/article/cinemadaily_bad_girls/ http://www.indiewire.com/article/cinemadaily_bad_girls/#When:15:14:24Z "This week Sony is releasing 'Bad Girls of Film Noir,' a two-volume collection that contains eight little-known titles from the Columbia Pictures archive," reports Dave Kehr in the New York Times. "As it turns out, not all of the girls in this set are bad, and not all the films noir. But given the barriers to bringing older films to market at a time when DVD sales are diminishing, it would ... Features, cinemadaily 2010-02-08T15:14:24+00:00 http://www.indiewire.com/article/box_office_red_trilogy_rides_to_top_oscar_nominees_expand_to_mixed_results/ http://www.indiewire.com/article/box_office_red_trilogy_rides_to_top_oscar_nominees_expand_to_mixed_results/#When:15:08:17Z The one-week only roadshow presentation of the "Red Riding" trilogy at New York's IFC Center led all specialty films this weekend, according to estimates provided by Rentrak earlier this afternoon. Adapted for the screen by Tony Grisoni from David Peace's series of novels, the trilogy consists of three separate films directed by Julian Jarrold ("Red Riding: 1974"), James Marsh ("Red Riding: 1980") and Anand Tucker ("Red Riding: 1983"). The 305 minute ... News, Box Office 2010-02-08T15:08:17+00:00 http://www.indiewire.com/article/awards_tracker_an_updated_list_of_the_precursors/ http://www.indiewire.com/article/awards_tracker_an_updated_list_of_the_precursors/#When:13:00:00Z The Academy Award nominations have been announced, and indieWIRE has decided to make things easier for anyone seeking out the latest lists by compiling a summary of the announced awards that led up to them. Below are links to the many announcements, as well as a compilation of the winners in various categories, listed in order of how many kudos each have received. Kathryn Bigelow's "The Hurt Locker" leads the best ... Awards Watch, Critics' Groups, Golden Globes, Gotham Awards, Spirit Awards, News 2010-02-08T13:00:00+00:00