The News Review:
- At Sundance Film Festival it’s a buyer’s market
- First big deal of the festival: ‘Brooklyn’s Finest’ SLD
- Flavor of Spring Festival gets thicker in China
- Christie Brinkley Is ‘Energized’ About 2009
- Nashua high school students hold cultural festival
- Spike Lee Talks ‘STRANGE’ at Sundance to NYT
- Most likely to succeed: Festival a springboard for film releases later
At Sundance Film Festival it’s a buyer’s market
Los Angeles Times CA
By John Horn January 15 2009It’s Hollywood’s version of the saddest orphanage imaginable: More than a hundred precious newborns looking for a loving home. nly a dozen and a half will be lucky enough to find one with fewer adoptive parents now showing up. The Sundance Film Festival which starts tonight represents many things to many people — a bold collection of arty movies for cineastes a free-flowing booze binge for party animals — but at its core Sundance stands apart as the nation’s most important market for films made outside the studio system. Like everything else in the upside-down economy these days though the festival’s sales dynamics are certain to be transformed this year especially for the historic Sundance stronghold of documentary films. “It’s a scary time out there” says Jim Stern a producer of “An Education” a coming-of-age drama considered one of the top films headed to Park City in search of a theatrical distributor. But I also think there are going to be opportunities.
First big deal of the festival: ‘Brooklyn’s Finest’ SLD
Los Angeles Times CA
"The deal for an as-yet undisclosed sum is a co-venture with Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group. "This is very much about chemistry: the right distributor for the right film" said Senator President Mark Urman. "We saw the film Friday night. It was edgy daring and definitely not studio fare.
Flavor of Spring Festival gets thicker in China
Xinhua China
18 2009 the traditional Chinese “Little New Year” festival a week before “New Year” or Spring Festival. The 23rd day of the 12th lunar month is called “xiao nian” in Chinese which literally means “Little New Year. ” Traditionally it is an important occasion when people offer sacrifices to the “Kitchen God” who looks after the family’s fortunes.
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Christie Brinkley Is ‘Energized’ About 2009
People Magazine
html” >messy split from ex-husband Peter Cook Christie Brinkley is only looking to the future. “I want to seize the day and take advantage of this year” Brinkley told PEPLE at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City Utah where she unveiled her new “Got Milk?” ad to raise awareness and reintroduce Americans to milk as nature’s wellness drink on Friday. “I am so energized” she said. “I am really looking forward to the inauguration. I see this as a huge time for opportunity. This is the time for change.
Nashua high school students hold cultural festival
Nashua Telegraph NH
A group of students had spent Friday morning setting up for a cultural festival at which students would be able to sample food representing nations spanning the globe. With lunch just minutes away junior Markiesha llison one of the members of the Culture Committee was frantically setting the last of the dishes just before students were about to start ushering into the cafeteria. A group of students had spent Friday morning setting up for a cultural festival at which students would be able to sample food representing nations spanning the globe. With lunch just minutes away junior Markiesha llison one of the members of the Culture Committee was frantically setting the last of the dishes just before students were about to start ushering into the cafeteria.
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Spike Lee Talks ‘STRANGE’ at Sundance to NYT
Broadway World NY
The film is being screened during the Spectrum Documentary Spotlight program through Feb. Celebrated director Spike Lee filmed two of the show’s final performances to preserve it for future generations and it is premiering to much acclaim at the Sundance Film Festival. Click here to read the article.
Most likely to succeed: Festival a springboard for film releases later
The Desert Sun CA
com”;Most likely to succeed: Festival a springboard for film releases later | MyDesert. com | The Desert Sun.