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Magnolia Pictures Acquires Polarizing Sundance Premiere I Melt With You

Expect more to come about this film from Movieline’s Park City bureau, but for now, rest assured that those puzzling I Melt With You videos you saw here last week will soon (hopefully) make all the more sense: Magnolia Pictures just announced it has picked up Mark Pellington’s polarizing Sundance premiere for US distribution. “”Thomas Jane, Rob Lowe, Jeremy Piven and Christian McKay give some of the best performances of their entire careers and attention must be paid,” said Magnolia acquisitions boss Tom Quinn in a statement. Exciting! And, as always, developing…

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Magnolia Pictures Acquires Polarizing Sundance Premiere I Melt With You

The Case For Mark Pellington’s Sundance Offender I Melt With You

The mass walkouts were the first indication that Mark Pellington’s I Melt with You was heading for a rocky Sundance reception; even critics who’d made it through couldn’t wait to spill out into the hallways and let the vitriol fly. I Melt with You was, effectively, the first hands-down bomb of the festival. But does Pellington’s midlife-crisis male-bonding thriller — which was picked up today by Magnolia Pictures — deserve all the flack?

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New Poster for Joaquin Phoenix’s I’m Still Here Devoid of Debauchery

For a film shoot that was loaded with enough sordid conduct to sustain two sexual harassment lawsuits , you would be right to think the poster for I’m Still Here might feature some crazed lunacy. Or at least a picture of Joaquin Phoenix getting crapped on . Alas, that isn’t the case. But with a single headshot of the film’s bearded star looking as dazed and confused as ever, Magnolia Pictures has probably gotten to the core of this faux-documentary better than any bodily function could. Click ahead to see the full poster.

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New Poster for Joaquin Phoenix’s I’m Still Here Devoid of Debauchery

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Release Date: May 2010 Genre: Documentary Cast: Graham Allison, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Tony Blair, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ahmed Rashid Director: Lucy Walker Studio: Magnolia Pictures Plot: A documentary about the escalating nuclear arms race. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mn-1LuLhrw&feature=related added by: KSirys

Movieline Handicapping: Who Should Buy the Joaquin Phoenix Documentary?

Among the hundreds of titles available to distributors at this year’s Cannes Film Festival marketplace, only one wields the cachet of being a verite glimpse at an American actor’s performance-art public meltdown. But despite everything promised by the Casey Affleck-directed mock-doc I’m Still Here: The Lost Year of Joaquin Phoenix , prospective buyers remain hesitant to gamble on the project. That doesn’t mean it won’t sell, though. After the jump, let’s have a look at five adventurous-enough distributors who might be in the running for Phoenix’s pholly.

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Movieline Handicapping: Who Should Buy the Joaquin Phoenix Documentary?