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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, winner of 4 awards at the San Sebastian Film Fest, has been picked up by Magnolia Pictures. Directed by Wayne Wang, the film is a return to his indie roots following a succession of sappy commercial fair including the Queen Latifa starrer Last Holiday and J-Lo’s Maid in Manhattan.

When Jakob was a boy, the last thing his mother said to him as she hid him underneath a covered table was not to come out, no matter what. In the moments that followed, Jakob watched as his mother took a rifle to her head, his father then shot dead and his older sister was dragged out of their home by her hair. It’s no wonder Jakob would grow up to become a man who lives his life as if he were still cowering under that same table.

Weekend Top 10 # Title GROSS % Chg. Theaters Weeks AVG Total Distributor 1 Baby Mama $18.3M NEW 2,543 1 7,184 $18.3M Universal 2 Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay $14.6M  NEW 2,510 1 5,804 $14.6M New Line 3 The Forbidden Kingdom $11.2M -47.5 3,151 2 3,563 $38.3M Lionsgate 4 Forgetting Sarah Marshall $11.0M -37.9 2,799 2 3,934 $35.1M Universal 5 Nim's Island $4.5M -20.4 2,977 4 1,519 $39.0M Fox 6 Prom Night $4.4M -49.3 2,821 3 1,559 $38.1M Screen Gems 7 21 $4.0M -27.5 2,952 5 1,355 $75.8M Sony 8 88...

Following the critical and commercial shortfall of his self-remake Funny Games, famed Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke will return to Europe for his next film Das Weisse Band (The White Tape). Shooting is set to begin in June and throughout the summer, with additional shooting in the winter.

IFC Films, who has been filling up their coffers with subtitled fair as of late, has acquired the US distribution rights to Abdellatif Kechiche's French drama La Graine et le mulet (The Secret of the Grain).