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Wild Bunch Arbitration Moves Spawn Worldview Lawsuit Over Trio Of Films
EXCLUSIVE: Already hobbled by venomous litigation among its past and present principals, outside investors and others, Birdman financier Worldview Entertainment now is trying some legal maneuvers of its own to get a hold of funds and due process it say it have been denied. Battling over European distribution of the…
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Specialty B.O.: ‘Boyhood’s’ Big Shoulders Continue To Dominate In Second Week
Boyhood continued to muscle into the Specialty Box Office in its second frame amid an expansion, even while the weekend’s newcomers showed mixed numbers. Zach Braff‘s Wish I Was Here and Mike Cahill‘s I Origins, second films from both writer/directors, bowed with averages in the low $7K range. IFC Films‘ Boyhood…
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Specialty Preview: Zach Braff’s ‘Wish I Was Here’ Plus ‘I Origins,’ ‘Mood Indigo,’ ‘Alive Inside’
Last weekend Richard Linklater made a Specialty box office splash with the 2nd highest screen average of the year with Boyhood. This week, Focus will hope to grab some similarly outsized attention for Zach Braff‘s Wish I Was Here. His previous film, 2004’s Garden State, cumed more than $26.7 million at a time before…
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Hot Trailer: Zach Braff’s Kickstarter-Funded ‘Wish I Was Here’
NBC’s Today today unveiled the new full trailer for Wish I Was Here, the film by Garden State helmer and Scrubs star Zach Braff that became the poster child movie for crowdfunding after it raised a big chunk of the budget through Kickstarter. Focus Features, which acquired it for $2.75 million out of Sundance…
Hot Trailer: Zach Braff’s ‘Wish I Was Here’
Zach Braff directed and stars as a 30-something man who finds himself at a major crossroads that forces him to examine his life, career and family. Joey King, Kate Hudson, Mandy Patinkin, Josh Gad and Ashley Greene co-star. The Kickstarter-funded Wish I Was Here sold for $2.75 million to Focus Features at this year’s…
Zach Braff’s ‘Wish I Was Here’ Gets July 18 Release Date
Focus Features will release Wish I Was Here on July 18, 2014 in a platform release in NY and LA before the pic expands the following week and again on August 1. The news was announced via the film’s page on Kickstarter, the crowdfunding site that gave life to the Zach Braff comedy that marks the writer-director second…
Sundance: As ‘Dogfight’ Producer Richard Guay Floats New Crowd-Funding Model, It’s Time To Stop Using Kickstarter And ‘Wish I Was Here’ As A Punching Bag
Just days after the domestic rights to the Zach Braff-directed and Kickstarter-funded Wish I Was Here sold for $2.75 million to Focus Features at the Sundance Film Festival, there's a new crowd-funding plan making the rounds here in Park City. While his Passion First Funding isn't up and running yet, Dogfight producer…
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By Mike Fleming Jr. – Oliver Stone has run smack into the same wall on a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr biopic that director Paul Greengrass hit when Universal kicked his MLK project Memphis to the curb two years back.
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Sundance: Focus Features Closes Zach Braff-Helmed ‘Wish I Was Here’ For Around $2.75 Million
UPDATED 9:49 PM: Focus has sent out a release about its acquisition of Zach Braff’s pic. Read it below.
PREVIOUS: Focus Features is getting on the board here at Sundance, just closing a distribution rights deal to Wish I Was Here, the film which Zach Braff wrote and directed, and stars as a father struggling to home…
Sundance: Zach Braff On ‘Wish I Was Here’ Kickstarter Campaign, His Critics & Industry Change
Zach Braff understands critics of his multimillion-dollar Kickstarter campaign for Wish I Was Here, which premieres today at the Sundance Film Festival, but says they're missing the big picture. "I have money, I've made money in my life and I put a great deal of money into this film as it were, but I certainly…
Sundance 2014: Fest Films With Highest Wanna-See From Buyers
Here are the 2014 Sundance Film Festival titles brought up most often in talks with buyers. It’s a hard year to handicap them; sellers haven’t previewed them for buyers, and sometimes the great ones sneak up on you. Not on the list is Boyhood, the film that Richard Linklater made using the same cast over a 12-year…
R.I.P. Actor James Avery
James Avery, the actor who played the family patriarch on NBC’s long-running The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, died December 31 in Glendale, CA after complications from open heart surgery, his publicist said today. Avery was 68. The classically trained actor had just completed shooting what will be his final role: a part…
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