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Female ‘Hysteria’ for Sally Hawkins
I'm not sure if there are any films out there on the invention of the electric battery (circa 1799), but there will be a feature based on the invention of the first vibrator (circa 1880) and director Tanya Wexler has set actress Sally Hawkins with a case of Hysteria
Beeswax Joins The Cinema Guild Hive
Andrew Bujalski’s Beeswax has been picked up by The Cinema Guild and after Funny Ha Ha (2002) and Mutual Appreciation (2005) may be the filmmaker's best opportunity for a more traditional platform release of his work.
Another Con Job for Zobel in ‘Gizmondo’
I imagine that when you have a breakout indie hit and you collect Gotham and Indie Spirit award noms by the boatload then you have scripts tossed at you like you were the bench-warming, jockstrap receiving equipments manager for a football team.
Miramax Not About to ‘Tell No One’
In the U.S. - it became Music Box Film's “the picture with subtitles that could”. I caught a screening of it in it's 12th week in Manhattan, and it tallied a cool 6 million in box office receipts - a rarity indeed.
Zeitgeist Picks Up ‘Act of God’ at Lightning Speed
Zeitgeist are being struck by Jennifer Baichwal not once, but twice. Baichwal’s previous film, Manufactured Landscapes played extremely well for the unit and without looking at the numbers was probably a box-office draw suggesting that: the privilege of acting on Act of God before it even hit the market or made a public festival impression surely manifested itself months before.
