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The story of one of cycling’s most flamboyant icons is being readied for theatrical release in North and South America this July.
Us-based distributor SpectiCast has secured threatrical rights to documentary Pantani: The Accidental Death Of A Cyclist for North America and South America. It will release in July 2014.
This follows the successful theatrical release in the UK (Soda Pictures), Italy (Ga&A) and Australia (Madman Entertainment).
Dominic Schreiber, the film’s executive producer, added: “We’ve had a fantastic response to the film in the UK, with sell out screenings across the country. Pantani’s story is a remarkable one and I’m sure that American audiences will be both thrilled and moved by Jame’s portrayal of a sporting legend.”
The feature doc tells the tragic story of Marco Pantani, one of Italy’s most infamous athletes.
Written and directed by James Erskine (From The Ashes, Battle of the Sexes), the doc is a New Black Films...
Us-based distributor SpectiCast has secured threatrical rights to documentary Pantani: The Accidental Death Of A Cyclist for North America and South America. It will release in July 2014.
This follows the successful theatrical release in the UK (Soda Pictures), Italy (Ga&A) and Australia (Madman Entertainment).
Dominic Schreiber, the film’s executive producer, added: “We’ve had a fantastic response to the film in the UK, with sell out screenings across the country. Pantani’s story is a remarkable one and I’m sure that American audiences will be both thrilled and moved by Jame’s portrayal of a sporting legend.”
The feature doc tells the tragic story of Marco Pantani, one of Italy’s most infamous athletes.
Written and directed by James Erskine (From The Ashes, Battle of the Sexes), the doc is a New Black Films...
- 5/23/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
James Erskine's film about the life and death of Italian cyclist Marco Pantani features thrilling footage and revealing interviews, even if it can't close the book on the doping allegations
After Lance Armstrong, the Italian climber Marco Pantani was the highest-profile casualty of cycling's millennial Epo crisis: in life, as in the mountains, his graft to the top preceded a precipitous descent, concluding with his death on Valentine's Day 2004, alone in a hotel room liberally clouded with cocaine. James Erskine's documentary account assumes less prior knowledge than Alex Gibney's The Armstrong Lie, while boasting similar rhetorical strengths: race footage that grips, thrills and horrifies, typically shrewd analysis from Matt Rendell and Richard Williams, and revealing interviews with Pantani's loved ones. Only around the doping allegations does it flag. Erskine isn't as probing as Gibney, and he can't quite put on screen the smoking gun or bloodied syringe...
After Lance Armstrong, the Italian climber Marco Pantani was the highest-profile casualty of cycling's millennial Epo crisis: in life, as in the mountains, his graft to the top preceded a precipitous descent, concluding with his death on Valentine's Day 2004, alone in a hotel room liberally clouded with cocaine. James Erskine's documentary account assumes less prior knowledge than Alex Gibney's The Armstrong Lie, while boasting similar rhetorical strengths: race footage that grips, thrills and horrifies, typically shrewd analysis from Matt Rendell and Richard Williams, and revealing interviews with Pantani's loved ones. Only around the doping allegations does it flag. Erskine isn't as probing as Gibney, and he can't quite put on screen the smoking gun or bloodied syringe...
- 5/14/2014
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
Soda Pictures secure UK theatrical distribution rights to the tragic story of the infamous Italian athlete.
Documentary Pantani: The Accidental Death Of A Cyclist has been snapped up by Soda Pictures for UK theatrical distribution.
The feature doc tells the tragic story of Marco Pantani, one of Italy’s most infamous athletes.
Written and directed by James Erskine (From The Ashes, Battle of the Sexes), the doc is a New Black Films and Media Squared Films production, presented in association with 4Rights.
Soda Pictures will release in the UK and Ireland on May 16 and 4Dvd will follow with the Home Entertainment release.
The film follows Pantani’s battle against addiction, set against the backdrop of the Alps during the Tour de France. He died aged 34 from apparent acute cocaine poisoning - just six years after winning both the Tour de
France and Giro d’Italia
Shot over two years in the French Alps, Italian Alps and...
Documentary Pantani: The Accidental Death Of A Cyclist has been snapped up by Soda Pictures for UK theatrical distribution.
The feature doc tells the tragic story of Marco Pantani, one of Italy’s most infamous athletes.
Written and directed by James Erskine (From The Ashes, Battle of the Sexes), the doc is a New Black Films and Media Squared Films production, presented in association with 4Rights.
Soda Pictures will release in the UK and Ireland on May 16 and 4Dvd will follow with the Home Entertainment release.
The film follows Pantani’s battle against addiction, set against the backdrop of the Alps during the Tour de France. He died aged 34 from apparent acute cocaine poisoning - just six years after winning both the Tour de
France and Giro d’Italia
Shot over two years in the French Alps, Italian Alps and...
- 3/14/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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