Kings and Queens

BERNEY ON LOYALTY AND THE CHANGING ARTHOUSE BIZ

The Reeler has a good interview up with Picturehouse’s Bob Berney who soberly assesses the U.S. market for foreign-language films in the wake of last week’s announcement that Wellspring is closing. I was encouraged by a few things that Berney said. One was that he’s still in the business of buying a film because he believes in the director and his or her future potential. “I’m probably going to make a deal for Lukas Moodysson’s new film,” Berney said, ” but it’s also hoping he’ll make a bigger film later that we can get.” I’m also a huge fan of […]
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 1, 2006
WHO’S THE GENIUS?

I ran into a colleague on the street a few hours ago who caught me up on some depresing industry buzz that had been circulating in Berlin: that Genius, the parent company of theatrical distributor Wellspring which is majority-owned by the Weinstein Company, is effectively shuttering the classy specialty distributor that has released so many great foreign and independent films. And now, Eugene Hernandez has the details in Indiewire. Going forward, the Wellspring name will become a home-video brand, and the Weinstein Company says they’ll release Wellspring’s upcoming theatrical titles. About ten people in Wellspring’s theatrical division will lose their […]
by Scott Macaulay on Feb 21, 2006

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