"The making of Breaking Upwards, which opens Friday both at the IFC Center and on cable through video on demand, is almost a tutorial in how a do-it-yourself ethos can overcome the tough economics of the movie business."īut can it? IndieWIRE's Eugene Hernandez argues that Breaking Upwards has "a decent shot" at breaking even. "It may be hard to imagine how someone could make a feature-length romantic comedy in New York City for just under $15,000, but Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones managed to do it," writes Larry Rohter in the New York Times. Anne Thompson has the story let's hope all's well that ends well.Īs for what is opening this week, let's stick for a moment to the matter of indies swimming upstream. Not usually a good sign, but in this case, thanks to SXSW audiences' warm response to the comedy, Telepathic Studios has picked it up for a wider release. Mid-week, though, it looked as if it'd been yanked and bumped to summer. ![]() Tim Blake Nelson's Leaves of Grass, with Ed Norton playing twin brothers - the gag being, of course, that they're often both onscreen in the same scenes à la Nicolas Cage in Adaptation - was all set for a limited release today. A funny thing happened on the way to the weekend.
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