A Cannes of worms for indie films

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HR | A Cannes of worms for indie films
Published 7/31/2008 by eug (eugene@indiewire.com) at indieWIRE: Buzz / Rumors
... In the Hollywood Reporter, Gregg Goldstein takes a closer look at Steven Soderbergh's "Che," James Gray's "Two Lovers" and Charlie Kaufman's "Synecdoche, New York," all from Cannes. "It took two months for the $20 million-plus 'Synecdoche' to land a U.S. distribution deal with Sony Pictures Classics. 2929 Prods. gave up on finding an outside buyer for its $12 million 'Lovers', deciding to release it through sister company Magnolia Pictures," he reports. "And Soderbergh's $65 million 'Che' is still searching for a ...

'Che' Bootleg Trailer Leaks!
Published 7/31/2008 by James Rocchi at Cinematical
... There's good news and bad news, Soderbergh fans: The bad news is that the director's two-part, Benicio Del Toro-starring Che Guevara biopic Che, as noted in a recent piece in The Hollywood Reporter, still doesn't have a U.S. distributor. Gregg Goldstein's piece (which also looks at the similar challenges faced by Cannes '08 films ...

In the works: Murakami's "Norwegian Wood"?
Published 7/31/2008 by Alison Willmore at IFC: Indie Eye
... Acquired: 2929 Prods. will distribute James Gray's "Two Lovers," which I quite liked, through sister company Magnolia Pictures, having failed to find a satisfactory deal with an outside distributor. According to Gregg Goldstein: "'Lovers' will bow early next year with New York and Los Angeles openings. Butan said it's not yet clear whether the film also will go out via Magnolia's Ultra VOD day-and-date platform." [Hollywood Reporter] ...

Trailering: Bootleg "Che," "What Just Happened."
Published 7/31/2008 by Alison Willmore at IFC: Indie Eye
... . The trailer, as trailers are wont to, siphons off only the most dramatic and actiony scenes, making the film look far more romantically revolutionary than it actually plays out. As Gregg Goldstein at the Hollywood Reporter wrote today, the $65 million film remains without a US distributor: ...

‘Che’ Trailer Promises We’ll See This Movie ‘Proximamente’
Published 8/1/2008 at Vulture
... at Cannes for Benecio del Toro, still awaits a distribution deal, hope appears on the horizon — or on YouTube, where an unsubtitled trailer has appeared for the Spanish-language film. Thanks to some bad sound and the fact that we took French in high school, we don't really know what anyone's saying, but it sure looks pretty gorgeous — even if the multiple shots of dudes marching through fields suggest a slightly more meditative pace than we like in our four-hour epics. (Soderbergh has reportedly rejected an offer that would require him to cut an hour.) Will it ...

Shorts, fests, etc, 8/1.
Published 8/1/2008 at GreenCine Daily
... ," recalls the Hollywood Reporter's Gregg Goldstein. "But the fest ended without any of the films clinching a US sale.... The tough market the three films encountered reflects an indie film industry rattled by folding specialty divisions, economic woes and the challenge of keeping films in theaters. A climate of risk-aversion not seen since the death of auteur-driven films in the 1970s has set in." ...