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August is finally over, and other bits and pieces.
Tue, Sep 2 2008 1:29 PM

August, it's been real. Jim Ridley on "Disaster Movie" at the Village Voice: "Best text message sent from my screening (it wasn't me, but I certainly sympathized): 'I want to die.' " But he's outdone by Nick Pinkerton, reviewing "College" at the same publication: "Nearly justifies traveling back in time to... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Inglorious Bastards, Quentin Tarantino, Odds, Disaster Movie, College, Klaus Barbie, Diane Kruger, Helen Mirren

Odds: "Slumdog Millionaire" finds a distributor, Todd Solondz makes a sequel.
Thu, Aug 28 2008 5:47 PM

Danny Boyle's new film "Slumdog Millionaire," a comedy about a Mumbai orphan who gets on the Hindi version of "Who Wants to be A Millionaire?", was set to premiere at Toronto in distribution limbo after Warner Independent Pictures went away. No longer -- Fox Searchlight is partnering with Warner Bros. to give the film a theatrical release... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Odds, Disaster Movie, Manoel de Oliveira, Slumdog Millionaire, Charles Ferguson, Todd Solondz, Danny Boyle, Happiness, No End in Sight

Timing is everything.
Thu, Aug 28 2008 5:23 PM

Mike Scott at New Orleans' Times-Picayune notes the impeccable taste Lionsgate is showing in releasing "Disaster Movie" on the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, August 29th: Around these Katrina-scarred parts, Aug. 29 is still -- and will be for some time -- a black-armband kind of day. For Lionsgate studios, however, Aug. 29 isn't quite... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Versus, Meet the Spartans, Disaster Movie, Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer