Odds: "Slumdog Millionaire" finds a distributor, Todd Solondz makes a sequel.

2008-08-28 22:00:01

Danny Boyle's new film "Slumdog Millionaire," a comedy about a Mumbai orphan who gets on the Hindi version of "Who Wants to be A Millionaire?", was set to premiere at Toronto in distribution limbo after Warner Independent Pictures went away. No longer -- Fox Searchlight is partnering with Warner Bros. to give the film a theatrical release on November 28th. Meanwhile, at her blog at Variety, Anne Thompson writes that "One film that is negotiating a final distribution deal is Steven Soderbergh's four-hour-plus, two-part Che," and adds that "I'm betting that the film will wind up in the hands of 2929 Entertainment moguls Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner, who backed Soderbergh's 2005 day-and-date experiment, Bubble." Todd Solondz, whose last film was back in 2004 -- "Palindromes" -- will be making "an untitled part-sequel, part-companion piece to his controversial dark comedy 'Happiness.' " [Variety] Manoel de Oliveira was heckled at the...

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