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"(January 23, 2006 - New York, New York) – IFC Entertainment announced today the creation of its new distribution banner, IFC’s First Take. Launching in March, the new initiative will look to develop and provide a voice to the many critically acclaimed independent films that are shown in New York, Los Angeles, and various Film Festivals, but lost within the marketplace each year. These films will be specifically distributed both theatrically and On Demand simultaneously, ensuring that each is guaranteed a nationwide release. Unlike other Day Date concepts, IFC’s First Take will use Video On Demand technology to create the first centralized destination for critically acclaimed independent films. Cable subscribers for the new On Demand service will be able to access two new independent films every month from their digital set boxes on the same day and date as their theatrical release. To help launch this new initiative, IFC also announced today that it has selected CSA: THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA, executive produced by Spike Lee; I AM A SEX ADDICT, 2005’s Gotham Award winner for Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You; THREE TIMES, named as 2005’s Best Undistributed Film by the Village Voice's National Critics Poll; AMERICAN GUN, starring Donald Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Marcia Gay Harden; RUSSIAN DOLLS, starring Audrey Tautou; and SORRY, HATERS, starring Robin Wright Penn and Sandra Oh, as the first films to will be distributed Day and Date. In 2006, IFC’s First Take will look to distribute at least twenty-four Day Date films, with plans to develop a larger annual slate in the future. Additional films for this year will be announced in the coming weeks. This Day Date slate will supplement the traditional release schedule of IFC Films."

WONDERFUL.

FUCKING WONDERFUL.

2/2/2006 12:36:22 PM

i can't tell if you're happy that people everywhere will have the opportunity to see good film

or

if you're really pissed because they won't have to go your theater to see good film

2/2/2006 12:37:59 PM

http://www.csathemovie.com/

holy cow

2/2/2006 12:41:56 PM

You know what.

If they'll let me hold some of that inDemand money to put towards my damn house payment

then I'll act like I'm happy for them.

2/2/2006 12:42:28 PM

its ok spooky, I'll still go to galaxy cinema a few times a month either way

2/2/2006 12:47:47 PM

i would go all the time if i lived in the raleigh area

hell, i still occasionally go and i don't live in the area

THE FISH MOVIE

2/2/2006 12:53:31 PM

i bet these films suck anyhow

2/2/2006 12:57:15 PM

There are plenty of shitty independent releases, but IFC tends to put out some good films.

2/2/2006 1:01:41 PM

you'll be fine

what's the stats on independent films these days- 93% of them suck? or is it 94

2/2/2006 1:06:04 PM

I'd say it's about the same as mainstream movies. About 90%.

The difference is that the super shitty independent movies rarely go anywhere outside of New York and LA, while Big Mama's House 2 becomes the number 1 film in the country.

2/2/2006 1:10:48 PM

god bless america

2/2/2006 1:12:24 PM

^^ winner.

2/2/2006 1:36:22 PM

put some stank on it
[/big momma]

but seriously

i wanna see CSA

2/2/2006 1:36:52 PM

why?

2/2/2006 1:43:56 PM

I don't want to put words in teh footmouth

but it's supposed to be really funny.

2/2/2006 1:53:29 PM

good heavens that looks stupid.

basically his idea isnt "what if the confederates won?", but "what if we still had slavery?"

because if the south had won, we would not still have slavery. i also dont understand why he suggests all the states became the CSA. if the confederates won, they wouldnt have taken over all the states in the union. they woulda just won the right to be independent.

i guess if you have a camera, you dont have to make sense.

^if its a comedy, than i take it back. you can do whatever you want to get laughs. i could see how it would be trying to get laughs, but i didnt think of spike lee making a pure comedy.

[Edited on February 2, 2006 at 1:55 PM. Reason : .]

2/2/2006 1:54:03 PM

yeah, but an over hour long joke would get boring

2/2/2006 1:55:18 PM

certainly.

2/2/2006 1:55:59 PM

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"Through the eyes of a british "documentary", this film takes a satirically humorous, and sometimes frightening, look at the history of an America where the South won the Civil War."

Film description from IMDB.

2/2/2006 1:56:02 PM

one guy's opinion i guess

i guess i'll have to make a film where there wasn't a civil war at all

2/2/2006 1:59:24 PM

and you can assume we were taken over by asian immigrants who enslaved the american population. its a comedy!

2/2/2006 2:00:10 PM

Keep in mind, too, that Spike Lee's involvement is an an executive producer, i.e. his input into the film was getting his name tacked on the poster.

2/2/2006 2:18:09 PM

good point

kinda like seemingly 20 movies a year have tarantino plastered all over em despite the fact he didnt direct em.

[Edited on February 2, 2006 at 3:28 PM. Reason : .]

2/2/2006 3:28:04 PM

ya'll should read

Guns of the South

by harry turtledove

2/2/2006 4:00:47 PM

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"You know what. If they'll let me hold some of that inDemand money to put towards my damn house payment then I'll act like I'm happy for them."

I know there had been some talk about theatres getting a better cut on BUBBLE than they typical would have. How did that end up working out?

2/2/2006 5:07:10 PM

^^ I keep meaning to read that

It is supposed to be really good

[Edited on February 2, 2006 at 5:07 PM. Reason : ]

2/2/2006 5:07:32 PM

^^ Mark Cuban's (the movie's producer) theater chain was the main exhibitor for the film. He owns the HDNet rights, and he basically built a DVD production company to make the product.

i.e. outside of Landmark Cinemas (I think that's what they're called), the exhibitors didn't get a dime. Bubble still did pretty well, though, so I'm not complaining.

2/2/2006 5:09:20 PM

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"i.e. outside of Landmark Cinemas (I think that's what they're called), the exhibitors didn't get a dime."

I guess my question wasn't worded properly. I was asking about payout precentages on box office. One of the concessions made by the distribution company was that theatre chains would payout a smaller percentage than they typically would. Did that end up being the case? Was it a significant enough difference to matter?

2/2/2006 5:13:05 PM

Ah, I gotcha. I don't know off the top of my head what we're paying on it. I'll look into it, though.

2/2/2006 5:43:17 PM