All Sundance articles – Page 93
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IFC Films takes UK comedy In The Loop for US distribution
IFC Films has bought US distribution rights to Armando Iannucci's comedy farce In The Loop, set to get its world premiere here tonight [January 22], and will release on its IFC In Theaters platform later this year.The film will also get channelled through IFC Entertainment's exclusive deal with Blockbuster. IFC's ...
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ReviewsThe Informers
Dir. Gregor Jordan, US, 2008, 98 minutes.More atmospheric than following a strict narrative, The Informers, set in LA in 1983, follows the intersecting paths of several numbingly-indolent, over-priveliged Angelenos. True to its origins in a collection of stories by Bret Easton Ellis, the film is a ...
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ReviewsShrink
Dir: Jonas Pate. US. 2009. 105mins.A splintered look at the Hollywood dream factory through the perspective of Kevin Spacey’s quickly-unraveling Los Angeles therapist, Jonas Pate’s Shrink is more forgiving and humanistic than acid-tongued, more Entourage than The Player.Thomas Moffett’s script deals with familiar material - social ...
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ReviewsPeter And Vandy
Dir/scr: Jay DiPietro. US. 2009. 80mins.Working from his2002 play, Jay DiPietro takes on the pitfalls of the modern relationship through an attractive - if combustible and highly tentative - young couple, played by Jess Weixler and Jason Ritter. While he works strenuously to open up the ...
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ReviewsManure
Dir:Michael Polish. US. 2008. 105 mins.The visual richness of director Michael Polish’s Manure is so striking that many moviegoers may simply forgive the film’s lack of an equally sumptuous story. After dipping their toes into the Hollywood studio-system with their last effort, The Astronaut Farmer (2007), Michael Polish and his ...
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Elle Driver swipes international rights to Arlen Faber
Paris-based sales agency Elle Driver has picked up international rights here to John Hindman's romantic comedy Arlen Faber starring Jeff Daniels and Lauren Graham.The US Dramatic Competition entry received its world premiere here on January 18 and stars Daniels as the remote author of an iconic book about spirituality who ...
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Slamdance competition entry The Ante sold to Panorama
Panorama Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to the Slamdance Narrative Feature Competition entry The Ante.Max Perrier directed and Peter Proffit produced the dark comedy about an innocent encounter that escalates into a nightmare game of cat-and-mouse.A festival run is planned, followed by a platform theatrical release in late ...
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Sony Classics seals North American deal on Lone Scherfig's An Education
Sony Pictures Classics has picked up North and Latin American rights from CAA to Lone Scherfig's well-liked rights of passage drama An Education as business started to heat up in Sundance. Also yesterday IFC Films took US rights from Paris-based sales agency Elle Driver to Tommy Wirkola's Nazi zombie horror ...
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Fox Searchlight takes worldwide rights to Sundance premiere Adam
Fox Searchlight confirmed late on Monday night (January 19) that it had picked up worldwide rights to Max Mayer's romance Adam following its world premiere screening.Fox Searchlight plans a 2009 release. Executive vice president of worldwide acquisitions Tony Safford, vice president of acquisitions Ray Strache and vice president of business ...
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ReviewsThe Winning Season
Dir/scr: James C. Strouse. US. 2009. 98 mins.Transporting The Bad News Bears into the world of high school girls basketball, The Winning Season is no slam dunk, but stars Sam Rockwell and Margo Martindale score enough points to make the game somewhat interesting. In a dramatic ...
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