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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Nov 20, 2014 10:34:40 GMT -6
deadline.com/2014/11/the-yes-men-are-revolting-the-orchard-about-elly-cinema-guild-1201289400/The Orchard Agrees To Latest ‘Yes Men’ Docu; Cinema Guild Buys ‘About Elly’ The Orchard has acquired North American rights to The Yes Men Are Revolting, the third installment of the documentary series featuring prankster-activists Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno. This time the Yes Men tackle the issues of global warming and middle-aged activism. The film, directed by Laura Nix along with Bichlbaum & Bonanno, premiered at Toronto and is screening Thursday at DOC NYC. It will be released theatrically and digitally across North America in 2015. Yes Men Are Revolting follows the duo’s The Yes Men (2003) and The Yes Men Fix The World (2009). The deal was negotiated by Danielle DiGiacomo and Cinetic Media on behalf of the filmmakers. Cinema Guild has landed all North American rights to About Elly, a mystery from director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation). Old college pals reunite for a weekend outing by the Caspian Sea. One of the women brings along Elly, her About-Ellydaughter’s kindergarten teacher, in hopes of setting her up with recently divorced Ahmad. But Elly suddenly vanishes, setting in motion a series of deceptions and revelations that threaten to shatter everything they hold dear. The film premiered at Berlin in 2009, winning the Silver Bear for Best Director. Cinema Guild will open it April 8 at New York’s Film Forum, followed by a national release. The deal was negotiated by Ryan Krivoshey of Cinema Guild with Nasrine Médard de Chardon of DreamLab Films.
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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Nov 20, 2014 11:23:33 GMT -6
variety.com/2014/film/news/the-orchard-buys-the-yes-men-are-revolting-1201360534/The Orchard Buys ‘The Yes Men Are Revolting’ The Orchard has acquired all North American rights to “The Yes Men Are Revolting.” The comic documentary premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film will have its New York premiere as the closing night film of the DOC NYC festival on Friday, followed by a 2015 release. Dennis Harvey gave the film a positive review at Toronto for Variety. The film, directed by Laura Nix, is the third installment of the series about the prankster-activists Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno. The duo attack the lack of response to the global warming crisis. The previous titles are “The Yes Men” (2003) and “The Yes Men Fix The World” (2009). “’The Yes Men Are Revolting’ continues the glorious tradition of hilariously duping the media and government that is also socially relevant and significant,” says The Orchard’s Paul Davidson. The deal was negotiated by Danielle DiGiacomo and Cinetic Media on behalf of the filmmakers.
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Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Jun 14, 2015 23:32:28 GMT -6
deadline.com/2015/06/the-yes-men-the-orchard-vod-numbers-1201442720/‘The Yes Men Are Revolting’ Earns An Estimated $45K In VOD Demonstrating the potential future for specialty film earnings through video on demand, The Orchard has disclosed that The Yes Men Are Revolting, which opened day and date last Thursday, has grossed an estimated $45K on-demand. This take puts it in the top 15 on iTunes’ documentary charts. The third installment of The Yes Men documentary series grossed $15,544 in 10 theaters over the weekend, meaning that on-demand revenues are roughly three times its theatrical bow. This isn’t the Orchard’s only film to see VOD earnings top theatrical. The company’s Sundance ’14 U.S. Documentary Jury Prize winner Rich Hill grossed $144K in the box office, but, as the company told me this week, over the course of its on-demand run it brought in $200K. Like The Yes Men Are Revolting, Rich Hill was a day-and-date release. Whether or not these films’ theatrical gross might have been higher had their runs not coincided with on-demand availability is up for debate, but it is true that most exhibitors are reluctant to show films theatrically outside the traditional 90-day exclusion because of such fears. Even so, as The Orchard told me last month, the company wants to be transparent with its on-demand numbers. To that end, I was also told that Club Life, which The Orchard opened in late May, grossed an estimated $100K in its first-week run. Though video on demand is an increasingly important part of the film distribution landscape, only a small group of primarily specialty distributors are disclosing on-demand numbers. In fact, the only other company to regularly give VOD numbers is RADiUS. The company reported back in 2013 that it had grossed $1.5M on VOD for Keanu Reeves’ Man Of Tai Chi. More recently, its late April release Adult Beginners has had an estimated $554K VOD gross as of mid-May, compared to a box office cume of $104K. Is it time to take VOD seriously and for distributors to release figures regularly as with box office returns? Perhaps, but so far progress on that front has been slow. It’s been over two years since since producer John Sloss, whose Producers Distribution Agency grossed more than $120K via on-demand for Escape From Tomorrow, called on fellow distributors to disclose these figures. “It’s time for that statistics to be known,’ Sloss said in 2013, “because it is the functional equivalent to theatrical box office.”
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