A Little of the Old In and Out



Magolia Pictures' Eamonn Bowles with Magnolia/Landmark CEO Bill Banowsky. (image via indiewire/Brian Brooks)

In: Bill Banowsky, CEO, Magnolia Pictures. There's a new distribution model in the world of film, and it comes through the appropriately named: Landmark. Nicole Sperling of the Hollywood Reporter writes of it, "Using 2929's Landmark Theater chain and marketing and distribution resources from Landmark and 2929's Magnolia Pictures, Truly Indie will provide filmmakers with a self-funded distribution operation whereby filmmakers pay a flat fee for one week of theatrical distribution across Landmark's indie theater network while retaining complete control of all rights to the product."Swwet. According to Indiewire:

"'This is a new distribution company,' explained Bill Banowsky, the CEO of Magnolia Pictures and Landmark who is running the new 2929 Entertainment initiative, in a conversation with indieWIRE Monday. 'We are creating a new distribution company called Truly Indie, it is completely outside of Landmark, but it has a relationship with Landmark and other theaters.'

"Filmmakers can pay as little as $40,000 for a one week placement in five markets or as much as $150,000 for a week-long theatrical run in 20 markets, according to Banowsky. In most markets, the local Landmark theater will serve as the venue for the release, but in the case of New York, Truly Indie will work with the Quad Cinema because of the competitiveness of advance bookings at its Sunshine Cinema in Manhattan. Truly Indie releases can take place via digital distribution as part of the digital upgrade at Landmark that will launch early next year, or filmmakers can provide film prints for their week-long runs."

So there.



Like a deer in the headlinghts? (image via ananova)

Out: Mariah Carey's Secret Admirer. While, yes, Mariah Carey is not without a certain curvilicious one-night shag appeal (The Corsair sparks up a Montecristo Platinum), she also has more baggage, quite frankly (The Corsair Exhales), than Louis Vuitton.

(A considerable silence) Mariah needs guidance, not a boyfriend. Who in their right minds would want to take on a long term project like this? Someone mysterious in Monaco, that's who -- according to the 3AM Girls:

"The curvy 35-year-old was sent a diamond ring and matching bracelet at the Hotel de Paris ahead of the Monaco show. And staff there were run off their feet finding vases for the enormous bouquets of flowers the singer was receiving.

"A source told us: 'Mariah was so excited with the diamonds she wore them for her gig on Monday. The guy is definitely after a date and with all the effort he's been to who knows what might happen?'"

Dishes thrown at terminal velocity, eight-octave range high pitched screaming, midriff-baring baby clothes with butterflies on them ... that sort of thing.

The full story here.



(image via milkeninstitute)

In: Lunch With Rupert Murdoch. If a wealthy Corsair reader has a spare, oh, 25 large -- and wants to get on our good side (three-quarter profile left), this would be a wonderful holiday gift to yours truly. From Owen Gibson of The Guardian:

"Given his fortune, his global media empire and his clout with politicians you wouldn't expect to find Rupert Murdoch appealing for dining companions on the internet.

"But the media mogul, who owns a string of interests from the Times and the Sun in the UK, to Fox and the New York Post in the US as well as broadcasting enterprises in Asia and Latin America, is using auction site eBay to do just that.

"Dining with the News Corporation chairman does not come cheap, however. The charity auction, in aid of the Jerusalem College of Technology, has a reserve price of $25,000 (�14,000).

"The winning bidder will be treated to lunch with four friends in the company's New York boardroom."

Aww ... not me and Rupe at the legendary 9300-foot loft space where Russell Crowe ate barbecue?