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May 12, 2006
'Black,' 'God' Finally Lock Up Distribution
Really, considering the festival's re-emergence in Brooklyn this weekend, Sundance news just never gets old. Take Off the Black and God Grew Tired of Us, for example, a couple of New Yorker-generated 2006 selections you read about here back last January that have just announced distribution deals.
James Ponsoldt's Off the Black (right), featuring an unusually understated Nick Nolte as an alcoholic high-school baseball umpire, is pinned down for a November release from ThinkFilm, while God Grew Tired of Us--the Grand Jury and Audience Award-winning doc about a trio of Sudanese "lost boys" developing new lives in Syracuse and Pittsburgh--wound up under the Newmarket banner. It will also receive a fall release, according to Variety. The latter release is of particular note considering all the rights issues that so plagued the film for the last few months; indieWIRE's Eugene Hernandez has the basic breakdown over on his blog; hopefully we can avoid any major Yari-esque indignities when Quinn and his newly official co-director Tommy Walker get their Oscar nods next winter.
Posted by stvanairsdale at May 12, 2006 11:17 AM
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