Tuesday, December 15, 2009

KSTEW'S "THE RUNAWAYS" GETS A DISTRIBUTOR!

Which means, we may be seeing more of this movie than we originally thought! Here is what IndieWire had to say about the movie's release, and its debut at Sundance.

"It’s no surprise that Apparition picked up all U.S. rights to Kristen Stewart vehicle The Runaways, which was fully financed by River Road and produced with Linson Entertainment. It’s the first Apparition/River Road theatrical collaboration (Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life, due in 2010, will be their second). The deal closed two weeks ago.

Here’s the deal. As excited as all of Stewart’s Twilight followers are at the prospect of seeing her as groundbreaking rocker Joan Jett—both Stewart-starrers The Runaways and Welcome to the Rileys are the most scheduled and visited films on the Sundance site—this is a low-budget indie movie made for less than $10 million. The music picture barely got finished in time to show fest programmers, and will be mixing right up to the delivery of a wet print at the festival, which opens January 21. The good news: Apparition chief Bob Berney can use the fest as a launch pad for the indie film’s March 19 release. And yes, it looks like exec producer Joan Jett will do her best to perform there."

Check out the whole article here.