- April 28, 2008
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La Leon Tops Torino GLBT Fest's Awards
The Torino GLBT Film Festival wrapped up its 23rd year Sunday with the jury announcing the festival's winners. Argentinean film La Leon, directed by Santiago Otheguy, won best feature film. Read more at indieWIRE.
- April 10, 2008
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Tell No One Wins Audience Award - Best International Feature at Florida Film Festival
Tell No One has won the audience award for best international feature at the Florida Film Festival. The film is set for release this summer.
- April 2, 2008
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Music Box Films Acquires French Thriller “Tell No One”
Music Box Films has acquired all US rights to Guillaume Canet's suspense thriller Tell No One. Based on the international best-selling novel by Harlan Coben, the film was a box office smash in France and went on to win the Cesar award for Best Director and Best Actor (Francois Cluzet) and was one of the most popular French-language releases in recent years in the UK. Music Box will release the film to US cinemas beginning June 27, 2008.
In the film, Cluzet stars as a pediatrician Alexandre Beck who, as the story begins, is still grieving his beloved wife Margot murdered eight years earlier. When two bodies are found near the scene of the crime, the police reopen the case and Beck becomes a suspect again. The mystery deepens when he receives an anonymous e-mail with a link to a live video site that seems to suggest Margot is somehow still alive and a message to "Tell No One." The cast also includes Kristin Scott-Thomas, Nathalie Baye, Jean Rochefort and Marina Hands. The acquisition was negotiated by Music Box Films partner William Schopf and Gregoire Melin for Europacorp.
- April 2, 2008
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Music Box Films Pacts with MPI Media Group
Additionally, Music Box Films and Chicago-based MPI Media Group have announced a DVD output deal for upcoming Music Box Films. MPI’s Greg Newman said “we are very pleased to be working with the Music Box group. Together they represent decades of success in distributing and exhibiting foreign and independent film in the United States.” Music Box’s Schopf added “MPI was in the first generation of video distributors in the US and promises to be an excellent partner in allowing our label to reach US home video audiences.”
- October 12, 2007
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Tuya's Marriage wins Silver Hugo Award - Special Jury Prize at Chicago International Film Festival
Tuya's Marriage has won the Silver Hugo Award - Special Jury Prize at the Chicago International Film Festival for its "strong portrait of a woman struggling to survive a remote landscape."
- October 12, 2007
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YU Nan wins Silver Hugo Award - Best Actress for Tuya's Marriage at Chicago International Film Festival
YU Nan has won the Silver Hugo Award - Best Actress at the 2007 Chicago International Film Festival for her "delicate, natural performnce as a woman in crisis which is the soul of the film."
- May 24, 2007
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Music Box Films Launches With Aquisition of Tuya's Marriage
Music Box Films, the recently formed distribution arm of Chicago’s Music Box Theatre, announced its first acquisition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, the Chinese film "Tuya's Marriage" directed by WANG Quan An and co-written by LU Wei ("Farewell My Concubine"). The award-winning film recently received the Golden Bear, the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival.