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indiewire.com - 6/23/2008

Alex Gibney v. ThinkFilm: Claiming Botched "Taxi" Release, Oscar Winning Filmmaker Seeking $1 Million From Distributor

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by Eugene Hernandez (June 23, 2008) Documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney is seeking more than $1 million in damages from ThinkFilm , distributor of his recent Oscar-winning film, " Taxi to the Dark Side ." Late last week X-Ray Productions , producers of Gibney's film, charged that ThinkFilm fradulently hid the fact that it could not properly release the film in theaters, in a complaint filed ...

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Indie arbitration on The Dark Side
MovingPictureBlog — From IndieWire: Documentarian Alex Gibney claims ThinkFilm botched the release of his Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side -- and is demanding $1 million in damages. Not surprisingly, ThinkFilm's Mark Urman disputes Gibney's claims.

Taxi To The Toilet
The Hot Blog — There was actually a very good film by the same title as this entry... Taxi Zum Klo... apologies for the grab. But Alex Gibney continues to push ThinkFilm on his Oscar winner, Taxi To The Darkside, now claiming that Think was fraudulent in its handling of the film, allegedly knowing that a financial crisis was coming that would get in the way of a wider post-Oscar release. IndieWIRE does a good job of offering the Gibney side, the Think side, and the objective side. I look at the numbers on Born Into ...

This could be trouble
Mostly Movies — Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney is suing financially strapped distributor THINKFilm because the alledgedly botched the post-Oscar release of Taxi to the Dark Side. THINKFilm disagrees. Valid or not, could Gibney's suit have a chilling effect on small distributors' efforts to push difficult material to the marketplace? (IndieWire) ...

Discuss: Should Filmmakers Give THINKfilm a Break?
Cinematical — ... week, indieWIRE ran a provocative piece by Anthony Kaufman about the financial woes of THINKfilm, one of my favorite indie distributors. Kaufman detailed the cash flow problems at THINKfilm, which were causing acrimony between the distrib and many of its filmmakers, who were alleging that the distributor hadn't paid what it owed to them, as well as to advertising companies charged with marketing films under THINKfilm's banner. Now indieWIRE has a follow-up piece up by Eugene Hernandez, which says that director/producer Alex Gibney, whose film Taxi to the ...

Bergstein's ThinkFilm Faces Uncertain Future
Thompson On Hollywood — ... is outraged, trying to fight a broken system and win back rights to his film before it enters financial limbo. On the other hand, it isn't every day that an indie company does everything right and wins an Oscar. ThinkFilm has done it several times. And it is highly unlikely that Taxi to the Dark Side would be able to earn much more than it did under the current dark moon hovering over the indie sector. See also stories in New York Times and Indiewire. ...

One Week Later, Mostly Sadness Over Gibney v. THINK
All these wonderful things — With the firing of the starter's pistol in the case of Alex Gibney, et al v. THINKFilm (and the subsequent war of words between Gibney and THINKFilm topper Mark Urman), the past few days have mainly been a chance for a variety of folks to weigh in on the situation, and the response, not entirely suprisingly, is mostly sadness all around. indieWIRE's Eugene Hernandez kicked things off earlier this week with a detailed piece on Gibney's lawsuit and a further response from Urman:"'We believed in Alex's film, we invested and incurred debt to the tune of hundreds of thousands of ...

This Week in Indie Film Catastrophe: Falling Skies, Rolling Heads and Oscar-Winners Attack [The Sky Is Falling]
Gawker: defamer — ... · Capitol's sister company, ThinkFilm, is on the defensive against director Alex Gibney, who initiated a lawsuit to reclaim his Oscar-winning documentary Taxi to the Dark Side. They hate each other — in public. ...