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Ridley Scott's Gladiator glances back to the old sword-and-toga epics, and it's surely sturdier than the 1959 Ben-Hur (which won an unconscionable 11 Oscars). It has the fights and the fraught manhood while skipping the piety. DreamWorks, the film's distributor, knows how to market a movie to the Academy; it won last year with the smallish American Beauty. And the film boasts a strong, unsentimental performance from Russell Crowe...
...columns that have been written since the inception of the series as "The Backyard Astronomer" in 1928. He estimates that he sells 20 copies a day by mail order, and predicts an enormous expansion in sales when the product is picked up by the Ingram Book Group, a major distributor, later this year...
Though upstarts in Hollywood terms, most of them have been around the German scene for 20 years or more, eking out an existence buying German-language rights to non-German films, then selling the product to cinemas and TV stations. Like film producers, such distributors succeed or fail on the basis of their ability to pick winners and avoid losers. But while a producer can control cost and content from day one, distributors bid on individual films or bundles of films that are already in the can. It made sense, therefore, that someone who can make money with his hands...
...most surprising output came from sophomore point-guard Elliot Prasse-Freeman. Known more as a distributor than a shooter, Prasse-Freeman scored 15 points in the first half to give the Crimson an 18-point halftime lead. After Clemente converted two three-pointers early but then cooled, Prasse-Freeman looked to shoot rather than pass, converting five-of-six from behind the arc in the first half...
...Your films usually have trouble getting a studio distributor. Was it difficult to find a distributor for this film...