Indie Seen: Gay Sex, Winter Soldiers, and the axing of a murderous dwarf
Posted Jul 29th 2005 7:35AM by Kim Voynar
Filed under: Deals, Celebrities and Controversy, Scripts, Distribution, Indie Seen
Gay Sex in the '70s, a documentary about the "unbridled passion and exploration" of the gay sex movement in the 12-year-period from 1969 to the first reported case of AIDS in 1981, has secured distribution in theaters, on home video/DVD and cable television. The film debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival and has been featured at several LGBT festivals this year. - Winter Soldier, a film made by a collective of filmmakers, documenting the testimony of more than 125 vets - including John Kerry - will be the premiere film for Dennis Doros and Amy Heller's new distribution company, Milliarium Film. The new distribution company, which plans to distribute at least two films a year, will focus on films with "strong political and social content. Doros and Heller also helm Milestone Film and Video, which will continue operations.
- The producers of the remake of classic film Don't Look Now are really stirring things up with changes they have planned to the original storyline. They plan to eliminate the murderous dwarf, set the film in summer instead of winter, and add some - gasp - sex scenes. While the co-writer of the film gripes about there not being a need to "remake films for a new generation", Nicolas Roeg, the director of the original version, is game to see a new take on his film, which was based on a Daphne Du Marnier short story.
- In yet another episode in the ongoing saga between Indian actors Salman Khan and Aishwarya Rai, protesters clogged a theater showing a Khan's latest film, Maine Pyar Kyun Kiya? Controvery has swirled around the once-paired actors, whose romance was tainted by rumors of abuse, for years now, with this latest incident of protestors on both sides being fired up about a tape of a phone call from Khan to Rai, in which he allegedly boasted of underworld connections and threatened her.
