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Miramax Films to the rescue. Counterprogramming with a vengeance, the distributor offers a trio of summer movies with nary a beach, a bimbo or a superhero in sight. All three films--Buffalo Soldiers, The Magdalene Sisters and Dirty Pretty Things--fit snugly into what we'll call the Miramax genre. Take a fact-based scandal that made headlines in a distant country. Cram in enough subplots to fill three other dramas. Assemble a tony cast of actors just below star level. Then market the product as a searing indictment of...well, something pretty...
This may go some way toward explaining the unusually large amount of attention documentaries are receiving this summer. There are three among the 25 top-grossing movies now in theaters. ThinkFilm is a distributor of Spellbound, about contestants in a national spelling bee, which has grossed more than $2.6 million--a huge haul for a documentary. Spellbound follows the fortunes of eight kids, of very different backgrounds, from their victories in local spelling bees all the way to their participation in the nationals. It works "as human comedy and suspense," says Urman. The other currently hot docs, Capturing the Friedmans...
...monkeypox has hitherto been endemic only in Africa. So it came as little surprise when health authorities traced the outbreak to 28 prairie dogs in Milwaukee, Wis., destined to become household pets, that had come into contact with an infected giant Gambian pouched rat while in transit with a distributor. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson announced an embargo on the importation of all rodents from Africa and a ban on the sale and transfer of pet prairie dogs within...
...Zhenghui The former president of a Hong Kong-listed mobile-phone distributor was accused of falsifying tax receipts. Arrested in January for failing to pay almost $25 million in taxes...
...Note to TIME.comix Readers Fantagraphics Books, the Seattle-based comix publisher, has issued a desperate plea for readers to buy their books. Their book distributor went belly up, owing them tens of thousands of dollars, the publishers say. According to their press release they need to sell off $80,000 worth of books in the next month to remain solvent...