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LA Times article on the biz side of the innovative release 10 Items Or Less starring Morgan Freeman

Intel, ClickStar & THINKFilm, along with Landmark Theaters, are getting this small film (a small film with a big star & a director & a decent budget by indiewood standards, but looks like a primarily one location, whole-story-in-one-day film; which are low budget indie staples) out to theaters & on to broadband download & DVD (DVD 2 weeks after theatrical). It's day & date release version 2.0 people (or, this is no Bubble, content wise). Also, due to stars Freeman & Paz Vega, this film could appeal slightly more to minority audiences; slightly more than most of the US indies or indiewood projects that do not have minority actors in lead roles (this is one of my on-going concerns, lack of ethnic diversity in US indie film, which also means less dollars for indie film related businesses 'cause the movies are not appealing to many of the segments of the US & world population - exactly the groups that could be served well from indie films). Check out the LA Times article here. Even though this film has big Hollywood names involved, it is innovative & experimental & indie friendly (meaning I can see a real indie film imitating the 10 Items distribution strategy successfully) enough for me to mention in my New Distribution post at the end of this year. Thanks Filmmaker Magazine blog & Scott Kirsner for the links that led me to the LA Times article. Not sure if 10 Items was shot on DV, I may have to go read that article again. See also this AP article (thanks indieWIRE for the link).

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* Watch movie here (or above at top of page, starting 11 AM EST 7/20 Sun) -  https://youtu.be/De6AXHsD5d0?si=QoqLZAJlJM-NmoBv * Final trailer:  * The subject of the doc - Joseph Koch Comics Warehouse in Sunset Park, Brooklyn - will be open to the public daily 12-7 PM until the end of July. After that, after 35+ years, the warehouse closes. Visit them at:  206 41st Street, 2nd Floor Between 2nd & 3rd Avenue Sunset Park, Brooklyn 718-768-8571 12-7 PM daily, until end of July Website -  https://kochcomics.com/ Lots of amazing deals there (over 300K+ items for $1 they say). On to the documentary - it officially comes out on Sun - on YouTube (but may be available to view earlier). I am wrapping up work on it now.  Will post link at this blog when the movie is out (UPDATE - link - https://youtu.be/De6AXHsD5d0?si=QoqLZAJlJM-NmoBv ). The doc will be 1 hour and 13 mins long - and will feature: - Intro and notes by filmmaker - A tour of the warehouse in its last day...

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(Joseph Koch Comics Warehouse is open 12-7 PM daily until the end of July. Visit them in Sunset Park, Brooklyn - all info here -  https://kochcomics.com/  ) * Check out the new documentary here starting at 11 AM EST today/Sun 7/20:

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