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Americans Need Balls, Indies Need Buyers as Chilly Cannes Winds Down [Cannes Film Festival]
Posted on May 22, 2008
Where are the big spenders this year at Cannes? After a 2007 buying spree that topped out with Universal snagging We Own the Night for a whopping $11.5 million, only one distributor has made any considerable investment in the current crop of selections IFC Films, which made news Wednesday by acquiring the acclaimed Irish drama Hunger, its seventh buy in as many days. And even its other deals an international mash-up including A Christmas Tale (France), Chaser (S. Korea) and the American indie The Pleasure of Being Robbed are slated for minimal theatrical play as they funnel into IF...
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