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Sundance Deal: Sony Classics Takes 'Wackness,' Bloggers Upset

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2008-01-27 00:00:00 by Peter Martin in Cinematical
...Classics , Distribution , Movie Marketing , Cinematical Indie Bloggers are up in arms that Sony Pictures Classics has acquired Sundance buzz title The Wackness . The film has been pursued since its debut on the opening weekend of the festival. Among other things, The Wackness gained notoriety as "the one where Ben Kingsley kisses Mary-Kate...
 
Tags: sony classics, sundance, film, wackness, film school rejects, title, sundance buzz title, fox searchlight, deal
 
 
 
 
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THE SLIFR FORUM: CRITIC CATCHES CLASSICS, or Does It Matter That Mick La Salle Had Never Seen 2001: A Space Odyssey?

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2008-03-03 00:00:00 by Dennis Cozzalio in Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
...Classics for the First Time, it wasnt too much of a surprise to think that he might have attracted some reaction to it, and that Lee would be one to offer a response. La Salle begins No film critic has seen everything, and all film critics have famous classic movies that they have yet to see Even though people know intellectually that it's...
 
Tags: film, film types, print film criticism, non-english film, online film community, film critics, kubrick film, foreign film history, film history
 
 
 
 
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Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York

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2008-07-24 11:59:09 by Variety.com * in Thompson On Hollywood
...Classics confirms the pick-Up of Sidney Kimmel's Cannes entry Charlie Kaufman's debut feature synecdoche, New York, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Samantha Morton--well-reviewed at Cannes--which means they got it for a price. These guys don't overpay. They're the right place for it. They'll handle it like the art film that it is. It's a...
 
Tags: kaufman, york, charlie kaufman forever, sony pictures classics, synecdoche, film, unique film requires, sidney kimmel entertainment, sidney kimmel
 
 
 
 
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Cannes Deals: Sony Classics Grabs French 'Lorna,' Norwegian 'O'Horten'

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2008-05-24 00:00:00 by Peter Martin in Cinematical
...Classics , Distribution , Cinematical Indie After a somnolent week in which it appeared that IFC Films was the only US distributor making deals at Cannes , Sony Pictures Classics sprang into action and snapped up two pictures, with a third possibly on the way. According to Anne Thompson of Variety , Sony Classics has acquired North American...
 
Tags: cannes deals, deals, cannes, sony classics, norwegian, lorna, norwegian director, strong film, cinematical
 
 
 
 
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Sony Classics' Bernard on Bargain Hunting

2008-01-24 01:44:27 by Mark Stein in Portfolio.com: Hollywood Deal
 
...Classics, was listening in on a conference call that included filmmaker Erroll Morris, Andrea Chalupa reports from the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. They were talking about next month's Berlin film festival I'm running from the gorilla," Bernard says into his phone, right in the middle of answering a question on ways to reform...
 
Tags: bernard, marketplace, sundance marketplace, festival, berlin film festival, sundance, tom bernard, sundance film festival, sony classics
 
 
 
 
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Sundance Deal: 'Baghead' Goes to Sony Classics

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2008-01-25 00:00:00 by Peter Martin in Cinematical
...Classics , Distribution , Cinematical Indie The crowds at Sundance may be thinning out, but the deals are continuing. In their second acquisition of the week, Sony Pictures Classics nabbed North American rights to Baghead , the new comedy from the filmmaking team of Mark and Jay Duplass . Variety says that the negotiations were not concluded...
 
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Cannes Prizewinner 'The Class' Taken by Sony Classics

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2008-06-14 09:32:00 by Peter Martin in Cinematical
...Classics , Distribution , Cinematical Indie Sony Pictures Classics (SPC) has added an educational element to their Cannes booty. Previously they picked up Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's drama Lorna's Silence , Norwegian director Bent Hamer's comedy/drama O'Horten , and animated Israeli doc Waltz with Bashir . (Eric Kohn explained why the...
 
Tags: cannes, cannes prizewinner, sony classics, class, cannes booty, distribution rights, israeli doc waltz, distribution, drama lorna
 
 
 
 
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80s films that made the cut in Entertainment Weeklys "New Classics"*

2008-07-02 03:33:00 by RC in Strange Culture
 
...classics" in the realm of film , tv , music , books , etc So when it came to Entertainment Weekly's top flicks from 1983 to 2008, you can imagine I was paying pretty close attention to their top films in the 80s...with this 2008 blog-series on 80s films I thought I would display the " classics " from the 1980s EW chose (*remember this will...
 
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Sony Classics Posts New 'Redbelt' Trailer

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2008-03-28 00:00:00 by Eugene Novikov in Cinematical
...Classics , Trailers and Clips Here it is. Just as it was gratifying to see all the hallmarks of the X-Files franchise in the X-Files 2 trailer we linked to yesterday (it's since been pulled, but will no doubt reappear in studio-sanctioned form soon), it's great to see all the David Mamet staples pop up here. Hey, there's Ricky Jay, and Joe...
 
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