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Lemon of the Week: Food, Inc.’s Magnolia Pictures
The Lemon of the Week goes not to the doc film, nor the production companies (Participant Media and River Road Entertainment) and nor does it go to Stonyfield Farm who benefit from the I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine type of arrangement, but rather it goes to Magnolia Pictures for not being a bit more vigilant in choosing a promotional partner.
Orange of the Week: Art-House Films Made into Video Games (Antichrist)
The Orange of the Week goes to this idea of taking the other kinds of films and working on new story-lines. Art-house films and indie films never receive a remake treatment, so perhaps one day fans of films such as Blood Simple, The Thin Blue Line and All About My Mother will get to continue the obsession via the video-game route.
Moneyball Finds Itself in the 11th Hour, not 11th Inning
Talk about a changeup pitch. Not liking the changes that were implemented in the shooting script, Variety reports that Columbia Pictures' Amy Pascal is throwing a wrench into the production which was supposed to begin tomorrow in Phoenix.
Weekend Rental: Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation
It was during an after screening Q&A for Tetro (the opening film for Cannes' Director's Fortnight section) that I learned that in a career that has spanned over four decades, Francis Ford Coppola has rarely worked from his own, original screenplay. With Tetro opening last week, I thought it might be fun to consider his Palme d'or winning The Conversation as a possible "weekend rental".
October Country & Mugabe and the White African top Silverdocs
Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher's October Country and Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson's Mugabe and the White African are the big winners at the 7th edition of the SILVERDOCS Documentary Festival (one of the two major strictly documentary showcase film festivals for North America - other being Toronto's Hotdocs). Both films receive a cash prize of 10 thousand big ones.
