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Author: Paul Heath Aug 13, 2008 - 11:25:30 PM |
We've just received the following press release which says that Magnet are launching a Six Shooter series of releases, which will see a variety of movies from different countries hitting theaters. This includes a January 2009 release for the Brit movie Donkey Punch. Here's the release. The inaugural film in the series will be Tomas Alfredson’s
critically acclaimed LET THE RIGHT ONE IN from Sweden, winner of such film
festival honors as “Best Narrative Feature” at the Tribeca Film
Festival, the “Rotten Tomatoes Critical Consensus Award” at
Edinburgh, “Best Film and Best Cinematography” at Göteborg, and “Best Film, Best Director, Best
Photography, Best European, North or South American Film” at the Fantasia
Film Festival in Montreal. LET THE RIGHT ONE IN will open in New York and Los
Angeles on Friday, October 24th with a
regional expansion the following week. The film, based on a internationally
bestselling Swedish novel, tells the story of an introverted
and bullied 12-year-old boy whose wish for a friend is answered when a young
girl moves into the apartment next door. However, the girl’s arrival coincides with a
series of grisly murders, and their relationship is understandably complicated when the boy learns that his new friend is a
vampire. Alfredson weaves
friendship, rejection and loyalty into a haunting and darkly atmospheric, yet
poetic and unexpectedly tender
tableau of adolescence which manages to breath fresh life into the vampire
genre. “Some of the most exciting, forward-thinking cinema today falls
under the genre label and deserves a showcase,” said Magnolia Pictures
President Eamonn Bowles. “In
the tradition of ‘The Shooting Gallery Film Series,’ we're putting
together a group of films whose quality far outweighs most of what’s on
offer from Hollywood.
And what better way to kick things off than with LET THE RIGHT ONE IN,
which is one of the best films of the year—period.” "It's hard enough finding one film,
let alone two that are benchmarks within any genre,” added Tom Quinn, SVP
at Magnolia/Magnet. “We're extremely fortunate to have six stellar films—future
classics, in my opinion—that will appeal to critics and audiences alike,
and make great additions to discerning DVD collections." The SIX SHOOTER FILM SERIES will continue the following month with Hal
Halberman and Jeremy Passmore’s SPECIAL (U.S.A.), opening theatrically on
November 21st after premiering earlier in month on November 7th
as a VOD title as part of HDNet’s ULTRA VOD program. SPECIAL is an
offbeat and lovable action/comedy starring Michael Rapaport as a meter-maid
whose psychotic reaction to medication given to him at a clinical trial convinces
him that he has super powers. Next up in December is Nacho Vigalondo’s TIMECRIMES (Spain),
a mind-bending time-travel caper, Sundance Film Festival favorite and Austin
Fantastic Fest winner that has already been optioned by United Artists for an English-language remake with
David Cronenberg slated to direct.
In January is Franck Vestiel’s EDEN LOG (France), a dark and visually
stunning sci-fi thriller which will be featured in the “Midnight
Madness” section of the Toronto Film Festival next month. Ollie
Blackburn’s gleefully twisted and sexually charged Sundance thriller DONKEY PUNCH (UK) with Jaime
Winstone will bow in February, riding the wave of notoriety that it generated
from its UK
release last month. Wrapping up the series in March is Hitoshi
Matsumoto’s wonderfully bizarre superhero/mockumentary hybrid, BIG MAN JAPAN (Japan),
another Toronto “Midnight Madness”
and Cannes Director’s Fortnight alum
that re-imagines the iconic giant defender of Tokyo as a 40 year old loser who manages to
incur the population’s wrath as he battles some of the strangest monsters
ever committed to celluloid. Magnet is the recently launched genre arm of Magnolia Pictures (www.magpictures.com)
specializing in films from the vanguard of horror, action, comedy and Asian
cinema. Magnolia Pictures is an operating business of the Wagner/Cuban
Companies, a vertically integrated
group of media properties co-owned by Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban that includes
2929 Productions, HDNet Films, Magnolia Pictures, Landmark Theatres and
television stations HDNet and HDNet Movies.
Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of
Magnolia Pictures, announced today the launch of the SIX SHOOTER FILM SERIES, a
theatrical release of six films from the vanguard of quality worldwide genre
cinema. With each film hailing from a different country, the series aims to
bring fans of horror, sci-fi, alternative comedy and Asian cinema a mix of the
most intelligent, genre-bending titles available from around the globe. The film
series is a labor of love for Magnet/Magnolia, who have been committed for some
time now to bringing this kind of high-quality fare to theaters, releasing such
beloved titles as Bong Joon-ho’s THE HOST and ONG BAK with Tony Jaa.
