Exclusive: Wolfe Releasing has acquired worldwide rights to Charles Busch and Carl Andress’ comedy The Sixth Reel, and to the late director Mark Rucker’s cult comedy Die, Mommie, Die!, slating the former film for release in theaters and on digital this fall. The latter will hit theaters in 2023, subsequently making its streaming debut.
In The Sixth Reel, a down-on-his-luck movie collector (Busch) discovers a legendary lost film and becomes entangled in an outrageous adventure to deliver it to the right hands before it is lost forever. Longtime collaborators Busch and Andress directed the pic from their script, with Julie Halston (And Just Like That…), Patrick Page (In the Heights), Tim Daly (Life & Beth) and Margaret Cho (Fire Island) rounding out the cast. The film was produced by Jamie Buckner and Alex Peace-Power of Derby City Productions, and the late Ash Christian of Cranium Entertainment. It won a Special...
In The Sixth Reel, a down-on-his-luck movie collector (Busch) discovers a legendary lost film and becomes entangled in an outrageous adventure to deliver it to the right hands before it is lost forever. Longtime collaborators Busch and Andress directed the pic from their script, with Julie Halston (And Just Like That…), Patrick Page (In the Heights), Tim Daly (Life & Beth) and Margaret Cho (Fire Island) rounding out the cast. The film was produced by Jamie Buckner and Alex Peace-Power of Derby City Productions, and the late Ash Christian of Cranium Entertainment. It won a Special...
- 6/30/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Yet more good news... Variety reports that the Sundance Channel and Loews Entertainment have partnered with Newmarket Films for potential expansion of the Sundance Film Series. An effort to promote four different indie films, the series commences today with the release of the Spanish musical-comedy The Other Side of the Bed. The rest of the slate is as follows: In This World (9/19), Dopamine (10/10) and Die Mommie Die! (10/31). Each film is set for a two-week run, though further expansion (with Newmarket's assistance) is possible depending on each film's performance. As a final, optimistic note, it should be mentioned that Bed was Spain's top-grossing film last year.
- 8/29/2003
- IMDbPro News
The Sundance Channel has acquired all U.S. rights to Mark Rucker's directorial debut Die Mommie Die, a 2003 Sundance Film Festival Jury Prize honoree. Sundance will release the comedy theatrically as part of its recently announced Sundance Film Series, which will feature four films released in 10 cities in the fall. Michael Winterbottom's In This World and Mark Decena's Dopamine were the first two Film Series releases to be announced. Written by and starring Charles Busch, Die Mommie Die was created as an ode to the Ross Hunter-style big-screen soaps of the 1960s and features Busch as a fallen pop diva whose husband discovers that she's having an affair with a tennis pro and has him killed. What follows is a comedic mixture of whodunits and double-crossings. Die Mommie Die was produced by Dante Di Loreto and Anthony Edwards of Aviator Films and Bill Kenwright of Bill Kenwright Films. It was executive produced by Lonny Dubrofsky and co-stars Frances Conroy, Philip Baker Hall, Natasha Lyonne, Jason Priestley and Stark Sands.
- 5/12/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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