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Weinsteins Position The King’s Speech for Oscar Season, Tillman Story before Football Season
After playing extremely well in France in late November, Radu Mihaileanu's The Concert becomes the first release of the year for the Weinsteins. The pause, wait, filling of the coffers means that their first release doesn't come until the 16th of July. The target market for this film is much like the demo that gravitated towards Mihaileanu's Live & Become (Va, vis et deviens) - easy to please seniors.
Blue Valentine Lands Fatal December 31st Release Date
It's still way too early place any importance to a film's release date nine months from now, but if you go by this tidbit of news, Derek Cianfrance's impressive debut Blue Valentine will receive the potentially fatal December 31st release date - a day that has plagued other Weinstein titles in the past decade if you look at the post-December 25th/26th releases of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Matador, Factory Girl and Miss Potter.
Weinstein Co. Liken Themselves to Themes in ‘The Company Men’
It's almost fitting that a studio head who is notorious for firing folks and his film distribution company who for the past two-three years has experienced its own set of financial setbacks, has laid claim to a film whose central theme is about the changing market and white collar staffers being handed their walking papers. The Weinstein Co. have apparently been in very long negotiations for John Wells' The Company Men.
Arthouse FIlms to Canvass Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child this Summer
It might have been announced just today, but this deal was probably completed several weeks back, Arthouse Films (small NYC-based distributor of docu films) has picked up the rights to Tamra Davis’s film Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child. Arthouse plans a summer release, probably right after Julian Schnabel preems Miral in Cannes.
Music Box Owns the Millennium Trilogy
Having grossed about nine grand per theatre in 34 locations was either enough for a deal to take place, or a pre-existing deal to be announced, but regardless - Music Box films have landed parts II and III to the Millennium Trilogy. No decisions have been made as to when The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest will be released, but I'm guessing that a logical release pattern would see The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo continue with its theatrical and the homevid runs, and then pull out a quick two step by the end of the year.
