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Top 10 Undistributed Films
Every season IONCINEMA.com takes a look at those who were left in the cold - films that didn't get picked up for U.S distribution and deserve a second look from the multitude of buyers.
Truly, Madly, Delpy
There are many reasons to love Julie Delpy. She’s gorgeous, talented (writer, director, actor, singer, smoker extraordinaire), and French (how can you not like that accent?). Now the Parisian artiste has given us one more reason to love her – 2 Days in Paris. No, it’s not a contest from Travelocity; it’s Deply’s new screenplay in preproduction. Deply, who received an Oscar nom in screenwriting for Before Sunset, will direct, edit, and star opposite Adam Goldberg.
‘Wind’ Shakes Up Emotions & Traditions
When Indie veteran Ken Loach steps up to the camera the industry tends to take pause. The outspoken 70 year old director has a proven track record that dates back four decades and includes five Cannes Special Jury awards and now the coveted Palme d’Or award for 2006. This year’s winning film The Wind that Shakes the Barley has reportedly just been picked up for US distribution by IFC’s First Take program. IFC has chosen to promote the film in its controversial “day-and-date” model, with limited theatrical release to coincide with video-on-demand release in spring 2007.
Pegg knows ‘How to Lose Friends’
Simon Pegg, best known for his starring role in Shaun of the Dead has been tapped to take the lead in the movie adaptation of Toby Young’s bestselling book "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People,” in which the self-promoting British writer mercilessly details his disastrous stint as a contributing editor for Vanity Fair in New York and his often vain attempts to ingratiate himself to various celebrities and supermodels.
Paramount Swats at ‘Flies’ with Soprano Scribe
The world behind the world. Those lives that we all see, but never experience. The pain that is reserved for the broken, the downtrodden, the lost. There seems to be a resurgence in interest in Hollywood for the seedier underbelly of our society and the heroes that reach into it to try to pluck life out without their sanity being drug down.Todd A. Kessler, formerly a scribe for the HBO hit 'Sopranos' has been tapped to pen Black Flies based on the unpublished memoirs of Shannon Burke, a former Emergency Medical Technician in Harlem.
