Tokyo versus "The Cove."
"The Cove," the Louie Psihoyos-directed outrage doc about dolphin drive hunting, capture and killing in Taiji, Japan, isn't turning out to be the relative box-office hit it seemed on track to become after winning an audience award at Sundance and gathering glowing reviews. Having only pulled in a total of $422,812 so far in limited national release, the film was used as the lynchpin of an LA Times article last week about the struggles of environmental docs to attract crowds. Now the filmmakers are throwing down a very public gauntlet to the Tokyo International Film Festival for rejecting their film (a dubious way to publicize your film, as AJ Schnack points out) -- the festival, which has a green theme this year, hasn't yet announced its lineup. Producer Fisher Stevens emailed Deadline Hollywood Daily to say "the main goal for making the film was to shut down the cove in...
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