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...happens that the movie arrives in a little sulfur cloud of industry rancor. When Disney, its distributor, announced that the picture would be released on DVD only three months after its opening in movie houses instead of the usual four, the bosses of British theater chains balked, declaring they would not show Alice. A compromise was reached, and the film is now playing throughout the U.K. (Read a review of Burton's Alice in Wonderland at Techland.com...
...have any sense of what was going to happen to this movie? I thought it was going to be released in France and Bangladesh. That was my sense of it. I was keeping my fingers crossed and hoping we would find a U.S. distributor, and we did. But if you're asking me if I predicting nine Academy Award nominations - I didn't predict...
...some ways, this shelter effect can be beneficial; as students, Harvard filmmakers do not have to face the harsh realities of the suffering film industry. As a newcomer, McGlade has already encountered difficulties in finding a distributor for “Guy and Madeline.” “This year, last year, financially everyone’s taken a hit, and distributors aren’t taking the same risks that they used to,” said McGlade. “It’s been a really tough year for independent film...
...response to the economic downturn, the number of films produced a year has been dropping. In 2008, 520 films were produced by the major studios. The projection for 2010 is between 300 and 400. From the point of view of a distributor, the bar has been raised. “You’re making fewer films, and being more careful about the ones you’re choosing, so it’s harder to get funding,” McGlade said. “People aren’t getting the same amount of money for deals...
...Scorsese's last three features - Gangs of New York, The Aviator and The Departed, all starring Leonardo DiCaprio - all followed that rule. The latest Scorsese-DiCaprio pairing, Shutter Island, was originally to come out last October, in plenty of time to beat the Academy drum. When the film's distributor, Paramount, abruptly switched the release date to February 2010, the move was taken as an admission that the movie lacked either Oscar gravitas or box-office clout. In vain did Paramount point out that mid-February was when The Silence of the Lambs opened in 1991, and all that film...