Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
– Sony Pictures Classics have announced they have acquired the rest of Pedro Almodóvar’s full library of films, including “Pepi, Luci, Bom”; “Labyrinth of Passion”; “Dark Habits”; “What Have I Done to Deserve This?”; “High Heels” and “Kika.” Spc will release his latest, “Julieta,” in theaters on December 21.
Based on short stories by Nobel laureate Alice Munro, “Julieta” is “about a mother’s struggle to survive uncertainty. It is also about fate, guilt complexes and that unfathomable mystery that leads us to abandon the people we love, erasing them from our lives as if they had never meant anything, as if they had never existed. The cast includes Adriana Ugarte, Emma Suárez and Rossy de Palma. It...
– Sony Pictures Classics have announced they have acquired the rest of Pedro Almodóvar’s full library of films, including “Pepi, Luci, Bom”; “Labyrinth of Passion”; “Dark Habits”; “What Have I Done to Deserve This?”; “High Heels” and “Kika.” Spc will release his latest, “Julieta,” in theaters on December 21.
Based on short stories by Nobel laureate Alice Munro, “Julieta” is “about a mother’s struggle to survive uncertainty. It is also about fate, guilt complexes and that unfathomable mystery that leads us to abandon the people we love, erasing them from our lives as if they had never meant anything, as if they had never existed. The cast includes Adriana Ugarte, Emma Suárez and Rossy de Palma. It...
- 8/12/2016
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
ArtMattan Films, the films distribution arm of ArtMattan Productions, has announced its acquisition of Daniel Nearing’s experimental period drama, “Hogtown.” Nearing, who made the previously critically-acclaimed 2009 indie drama “Chicago Heights,” shot “Hogtown” in black and white with Herman Wilkins and Diandra… Continue Reading →...
- 8/8/2016
- by shadowandact
- ShadowAndAct
Once again, before 2013 officially comes to a close, I want to bring to your attention the very interesting upcoming indie period drama Hogtown.Vanessa and I have a few times before written about Chicago-based writer and director Daniel Nearing’s ambitious new film project Hogtown, with images from the film and a teaser trailer. Now the first full length trailer from the film was released yesterday. Nearing, who made the previously critically-acclaimed 2009 indie drama Chicago Heights, shot Hogtown in black and white with Herman Wilkins and Diandra Lyle playing the leads in a multi-racial cast of more than 70.The film could be described as an experimental period drama, set...
- 12/31/2013
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
I first wrote about Chicago-based writer and director Daniel Nearing’s ambitious new film project Hogtown back in April 2012, and now we finally get to see our teasing first look at the film. Currently deep in post-production, Nearing, who made the previously critically-acclaimed 2009 drama Chicago Heights, shot Hogtown in black and white with Herman Wilkins and Diandra Lyle playing the leads in a mutli-racial cast of more than 70.The film is a experimental period drama set during the backdrop of the notorious 1919 Chicago race riots - a city which, as anyone familiar with it knows, has a long, bloody and painful history of racial tensions.Nearing says that his film’s plot “relates...
- 8/12/2013
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
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