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...film almost didn't get released. In fact, you say in the DVD commentary that one distributor referred to it as a "disaster." How did it finally break...
...involved with a low-budget film. This is to ensure that producers don't fast-talk eager actors into accepting lower pay for what they are told is a legitimate feature, but is actually a direct-to-video project. Although Zyzzyx's filmmakers had always planned to seek a distributor for a large, domestic release, they first rented out the small Texas theater in order to fulfill the SAG requirements...
...film, which aspires to a noirish road picture in the vein of Red Rock West or U-Turn, isn't truly a historic stinker - it's super-low box office has just given it a bad rap. It hasn't been picked up by a U.S. distributor for a wider release in the states, but there has been interest from DVD companies and others who want to capitalize on the weird press...
...Sales skyrocket: With every distributor looking for the next Little Miss Sunshine, Sundance 2007 was a filmmaker's market as 13 movies sold in the feverish first six days of the festival. Sons of Rambow, a British comedy about a boy's obsession with the movie First Blood, sold to Paramount Vantage for just under $8 million; ThinkFilm picked up the astronaut documentary In the Shadow of the Moon for $2.5 million; the Weinstein Co. paid $4 million to win a heated bidding war for the John Cusack drama Grace is Gone, prompting the indie film company's head, Harvey...
...suit American tastes, Bionade is contemplating adding new flavors, like cranberry. But the major hurdle is just getting the drink on store shelves. To do that, the company will likely have to pair up with a major distributor, like Starbucks or Anheuser-Busch, which seems anathema to a company that has marketed itself as an idealistic small-town enterprise. After all, it was multinational corporations that almost put the brewery out of business in the first place. Timothy Calkins, clinical professor of marketing at the Kellogg School of Management at Chicago's Northwestern University, cautions: "The key challenge on growth...