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New Indie Distributor Adopt Films Acquires Doc ‘The Ballad Of Genesis And Lady Jaye’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday September 7, 2011 @ 11:00am PDTTags: Adopt Films, Indie Distribution, Toronto Film Festival

October Films co-founder Jeff Lipsky and former exhibitor Tim Grady have started an indie distribution company, called Adopt Films. The pair will hit the Toronto Film Festival this week to announce their first pickup, Marie Losier’s The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye. The documentary is headed for a first-quarter release in the U.S. New York-based Adopt has its eye on narrative indies and foreign-language films as well. Lipsky, who began his distribution career with A Woman Under the Influence, said Adopt is emulating the path forged by early October releases including Mike Leigh’s Life Is Sweet, Gregg Araki’s The Living End, Bill Plympton’s The Tune and Adam’s Rib. Losier’s first feature chronicles the love affair between Brit Genesis Breyer P-Orridge — the founder of industrial bands COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV — and New York performance artist Lady Jaye. The film had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival this year. Lipsky also is a filmmaker and a former executive at New Yorker Films, Samuel Goldwyn Films, and Skouras Pictures, and Grady has been executive producer and exclusive home video rights holder to the Tour de France for North America and the UK for 23 years.

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MPAA Upholds ‘R’ Rating On Holocaust Doc

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday August 5, 2010 @ 2:07pm PDTTags: Adam Yauch, Holocaust Documentary, Indie Distribution, MPAA, MPAA Ratings Board, Oscilloscope Laboratories, Trailers, Video
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: When filmmakers appeal ratings and try to measure themselves against ratings given other films, the MPAA generally refuses to engage in those comparisons. So the MPAA ratings board today shot down an appeal by Oscilloscope Laboratories to rescind the “R” rating given the Holocaust documentary A Film Unfinished. It was upheld in a just-concluded appeals hearing by a 12-3 vote. Oscilloscope, the indie distribution company founded by Beastie Boys co-founder Adam Yauch, acquired the film at Sundance. He expressed outrage earlier this week when told that the film got an R rating for “disturbing images of Holocaust atrocities including graphic nudity.” Oscilloscope’s appeal today included an impassioned argument by director Yael Hersonski to judge the nudity in the film from a historical and educational standpoint. Read More »

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Click To Help ‘Twelve’s Standing In Popularity Clique

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 3, 2010 @ 12:33pm PDTTags: Hannover House, Indie, Indie Distribution, Joel Schumacher, Joel Schumacher Twelve, Twelve
Mike Fleming

If indie distributor Hannover House’s CEO Eric Parkinson has his way, the Joel Schumacher-directed Twelve will not only stir box office when it opens Friday, it will also be popular on the IMDB.com website. And since entry to that … Read More »

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Apparition Restructures With 60% Staff Cut

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 30, 2010 @ 9:13am PDTTags: Apparition, Apparition Staffers Let Go, Bill Pohlad, Indie Distribution, Movie Distribution, The Tree of Life, Tom Ortenberg Consultant
Mike Fleming

UPDATE 12:13 PM: Apparition just made official its restructuring plans after Deadline broke the story.

EXCLUSIVE: Bill Pohlad has begun the first phase of restructuring Apparition, apparition_logothe indie distribution company that was thrown into disarray when co-founder Bob Berney exited in bombshell fashion just before the Cannes Film Festival. The first step is painful: 60%, or approximately 15 staffers were informed moments ago they are being let go and receiving severance packages. Last day for those staffers is this Friday. Read More »

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