You can't really argue the taste of up - and -
coming film distributors A24.
Not exact matches
Once again the most prolific
distributor of the year, IFC maintained a more - than - one -
film - per - week pace throughout 2013, with releases in multiple genres
coming through a variety of sub-brands, including the artier Sundance Selects and the horror - oriented IFC Midnight.
Only two other
distributors released more
films last year, and they didn't
come anywhere close to the same amount of critical acclaim.
Submergence
came into the Toronto
Film Festival with several
distributors having made bids, but UTA decided to wait until after the
film's world premiere Sept. 10 to begin negotiations, which have carried on for the past two months.
After all, much of the impetus for the cycle
came from a renewed interest in independent
film by major
distributors.
After I saw it at the Toronto
film festival last September — where Rudolph and Willis said they were proud of having made it even if nobody saw it — it received nominal runs in New York and Los Angeles, cities where viewers and critics are regarded by
distributors as being more demographically significant than those in Chicago, and then early this year it
came out on video.
When: June 27th Why: Bong Joon - ho's English - language debut has had a very bumpy road on its way to theaters — with U.S.
distributor Harvey Weinstein reportedly wanting to cut 25 minutes from the
film and add narration to make it easier to follow — but fans of the Korean director can rest easy, because the unedited version will be
coming to the States after all.
Australian
distributor Hopscotch Films also tweeted to confirm the Australian release date as September 5th (making it the third
film to
come out in that market in a year).
This one is harder to see
coming but sometimes deep pocketed
distributors do pick up
films just because they love them and want them seen.
The
distributor said its audience looks out for
films «like this» and is expected to
come out this weekend for the Korean thriller.
In the days and weeks to
come, Hollywood studios and independent
distributors will be releasing all sorts of
films that are crammed with producer credits.
Most
films come to Sundance to find a
distributor, but from day one the boxing documentary Knuckle was subject to a different kind of positive buzz — namely, «This would be great for a remake.»
Money Monster, which debuted at Cannes this past week with Hollywood royalty in attendance when director Jodie Foster and stars George Clooney and Julia Roberts graced the red carpet, ended its three - day run with $ 14.6 M.
Distributor Sony is banking that the
film will have some staying power as it is the only real adult - demo drama in the marketplace for the
coming weeks.
This probably means that U.S. audiences will not get to see it before 2013: Wong's
films have traditionally opened in China long before they
come to the West, and while Megan Ellison «s Annapurna Pictures has the rights, there's no
distributor proper attached at present (although the Weinstein Company would probably be a good bet, given the close relationship between the two companies).
This
coming session sees the arrival of both Tomb Raider and Peter Rabbit, but neither are titles that would blow all existing
films out of the water, so it's not clear why so many UK
distributors gave the 9 March release date a wide berth.
But the auction — which
came down to Paramount, Amazon Studios and Universal in the end — really commenced after
distributors heard about a couple of «friends and family» screenings of the finished
film.
Stars: James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, James Arness, Joan Weldon, Onslow Stevens, Don Shelton, Fess Parker Length: 93 minutes
Distributor: Warner Bros Cinema: 1954 SPECIAL FEATURES: Behind the Scenes, trailer, image gallery Region: 2 Ratio: 1.33:1 (fullscreen -
film shot in 1.66:1 and cropped slightly on disc) Sound: Dolby Digital 1.0 (mono) Audio Tracks: English and multiple languages Subtitles: English and multiple languages Captions: English and Dutch Menus: Static with music Special Features Subtitles: None of the special features
come with subtitles.
The
Coming Soon Award, a prize given in association with KPCC 89.3, to a
film with a U.S.
distributor, went to animated feature «Long Way North.»
The
film came into the festival without a domestic
distributor, looking to make a deal, and — bucking many trends we have seen this festival season — chose to go with Neon and 30WEST, favoring a traditional theatrical instead of streamed release with platforms such as Netflix.