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February 07, 2006
ThinkFilm Now Set to Introduce 'Strangers'
After all that controversy about posters-this and clearances-that, it looks like the producers of the languishing Strangers With Candy feature finally got over on Warner Independent. Like nobody saw that coming: New York Magazine's Jada Yuan had hinted at (read: all but confirmed) a deal last week, but the gentle souls over at indieWIRE made it official today that Strangers is ThinkFilm's problem now.
And leave it to ThinkFilm kingpin Mark Urman to chime in with all the winking publicity gusto he can muster:
"At this important stage of our company's development, we were looking for a film that combined all of the best qualities of Crash, Brokeback Mountain, and Capote," said Urman in a statement. "Strangers with Candy has ethnic slurs, clandestine gay sex, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman. What more could we want?"
Great question. All that stuff about "this important stage of our company's development" can only be doubletalk for, "Winning documentary Oscars gets so fucking old after a while." Between Strangers and Half Nelson, though? Hey--sky's the limit for 2006.
Posted by stvanairsdale at February 7, 2006 10:54 AM
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