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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Big Screen

America Will Indeed See Willem Dafoe’s Bloody Ejaculation

5:45AM Richard Lawson | Lars von Trier’s ball-banging, blood-coming horror flick Antichrist has been picked up by an American distributor at Cannes. IFC Films will take the America-hating filmmaker’s crazy Willem Dafoe movie to the people he hates. This is the new cinematic diplomacy! Hope and change and bloody penises and all. [IndieWire]
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Friday, May 23, 2008

Americans Need Balls, Indies Need Buyers as Chilly Cannes Winds Down

9:10AM Defamer Hollywood | Where are the big spenders this year at Cannes? After a 2007 buying spree that topped out with Universal snagging We Own the Night for a whopping $11.5 million, only one distributor has made any considerable investment in the current crop of selections — IFC Films, which made news Wednesday by acquiring the acclaimed Irish drama Hunger, its seventh buy in as many days. And even its other deals — an international mash-up including A Christmas Tale (France), Chaser (S. Korea) and the American indie The Pleasure of Being Robbed — are slated for minimal theatrical play as they funnel into IFC’s day-and-date on-demand circuit.
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