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Heavyweight Battles. Trade Roughage 09/23/08
Universal and Disney battle it out for DreamWorks; Rudin and Weinstein battle it out for THE READER; Moby Dick battles Ahab in bullet time (or should I say harpoon time?); defender and prosecutor battle it out in RASHOMON 2010; and Keira Knightley just takes it easy in more period costumes.

• Now that DreamWorks’ detachment from Paramount is officially happening, it’s time to find a distributor for the soon-to-be private company. Universal and Disney are currently the main contenders, but there just seems to be something wrong about a DreamWorks-Disney partnership, even if DreamWorks Animation isn’t part of the move.
• Personally, I think Harvey Weinstein should hold off releasing Stephen Daltry’s The Reader until 2009, but I’d like to see Harv and Scott Rudin literally wrestle each other to see who wins their distribution dispute.
• Who wants to see a giant whale decimate 19th century ships in bullet time? Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov is helming a visual effects-heavy reimagining of Moby Dick.
• Speaking of ruining classics, there’s a Rashomon remake in the works that will update the story’s setting to a modern day rape trial. But then does it have to be an official redo, since there’s tons of Rashomon-influenced movies anyway?
• This would have fit in a lot better in yesterday’s Trade Roughage: Keira Knightley signs on for her millionth period piece, wins a balloon and a flapper costume shopping spree.

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ORPHANS on DVD Today
The latest release from Carnivalesque Films, the DVD initiative spearheaded by filmmakers David Redmon and Ashley Sabin, hits stores (and Amazon, etc) today. It’s Orphans, Ry Russo-Young’s debut feature, which premiered and won a Jury Prize at the SXSW Film Festival in 2006. It’s a family horror film of sorts, about two estranged sisters who […]

The latest release from Carnivalesque Films, the DVD initiative spearheaded by filmmakers David Redmon and Ashley Sabin, hits stores (and Amazon, etc) today. It’s Orphans, Ry Russo-Young’s debut feature, which premiered and won a Jury Prize at the SXSW Film Festival in 2006. It’s a family horror film of sorts, about two estranged sisters who get together for one weekend of boozy recollection and reconnection gone wrong. I’ve written about the film briefly before; you can see also a conversation with Russo-Young and Tom Hall, and a crazy in-depth “breakdown” of Orphans by Ry and Noralil Ryan Fores. The trailer is above. Also: last week Brandon talked to Ry about Fassbinder and her latent desire to make a film with Amy Winehouse.

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