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Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to Copa 71, a documentary about the pioneering “Unofficial Women’s World Cup” that created a sensation in… ....
'Copa 71,' a documentary about the unofficial "First Women's World Cup" has been acquired by Greenwich Entertainment for summer theatrical release. ....
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Rolling Stone M. Ward on Why Billie Holiday Endures “There was something broken in her voice,” says Ward, whose new album, released amid a Holiday renaissance, reinterprets songs associated with the legendary jazz singer By Holly Andres; Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images That haunted voice we keep hearing these days belongs to Billie Holiday. More than six decades after her death, the legendary singer is experiencing a moment in the culture: She’s the subject of a recent documentary (director James Erskine’s Billie) and a soon-to-be released biopic (director Lee Daniels’ The United States vs. Billie Holiday, starring Andra Day, out later this month), and “Strange Fruit,” the anti-lynching protest song that she popularized in the late Thirties, has been remade, sampled, and revived. One of her songs even popped up in HBO’s ....
The Secret Garden and Noël Coward adaptation Blithe Spirit to Sky Cinema for a UK release. “There is definitely uncertainty,” says producer Elizabeth Karlsen of Number 9 Films, producers of Their Finest and Mothering Sunday. “No-one really knows exactly what the landscape is going to be like out there for theatrical distribution when we come out of it. You have the double whammy of Covid-19 with the [impact of] streamers.” However, there is plenty of evidence the sector is well positioned to thrive in a post-pandemic, SVoD-driven market. Altitude, Vertigo, Curzon and Modern Films have all successfully released UK films on multiple platforms and there is no sign they will be stopping now. With US studios retrenching and becoming less internationally minded and more focused on streaming services, there may be opportunities for local distributors in the theatrical marketplace. ....