Not exact matches
A British
film about Charles Darwin has failed to find a US
distributor because his theory of evolution is too controversial for American
What: Father of the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is hailed in the mainstream
But
what Relativity lacked in quality, it made up for in ticket sales, thanks mainly to just two
films: the surprise Bradley Cooper hit Limitless, and Tarsem Singh's Immortals 46, a rare big - budget
film for the
distributor.
Apart from this revival of interest in specialized
film titles,
what stands out is the way
distributors placed their
films for maximum impact against intense peak holiday competition.
With 100 Years of Olympic Films: 1912 - 2012, the
distributor achieves a new milestone with
what we might call the «
film archive in a box.»
The rare January family release that's actually very good, the
film was offloaded to Warner Bros. by its original
distributor, The Weinstein Co.; despite excellent reviews (for
what it's worth, it's currently at 100 % at Rotten Tomatoes), it ended up opening at No. 7.
The award finishes
what was a very successful festival for Irish
films with The Summit being snapped up by a major US
distributor Sundance Selects after its premiere at the festival and the Irish short animation Irish Folk Furniture directed by Tony Donoghue scooping the Best Animation prize at the festival.
It did, however, bring about an interesting discussion amongst various online circles about a
distributor's «responsibility» to portray a
film accurately against that of the consumer's «responsibility» to know
what the hell they're paying money to see.
I wish the Tribeca
Film Festival could interest foreign
film distributors in showing abroad
what new and upcoming American directors are doing.
What's next for him: finding a
distributor (he's learning to say»... when we get picked up») and attending more screenings of his
film at SXSW, where he enjoys appearing with his mother: «My mom gets a kick out of going up onstage.»
It's a decent
film, sure, but I wish I knew
what it was about this particular feature that
distributors thought had international potential.
Also, there's a beautiful noblewoman with people - touching - her issues named Eliza (Kate Beckinsale), after whom the European version of this
film is still named, which says something about
what distributors think audiences will tolerate in our respective markets, methinks.
The NZ Blu - ray of the restoration of Geoff Murphy's 1983 Utu is a superb example of someone doing the hard yakka to get a
film back to a point far beyond
what was presented to us by nervous producers and unthinking international
distributors way back when.