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By Borys Kit LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Slither" threw a scare into the box office this weekend, but it was not exactly the shock that its creators were hoping to achieve. This year, such horror movies as "Hostel," "When a Stranger Calls" and "Final Destination 3" have enjoyed a bloody good run -- bowing in first or second place with sales in the $20 million range. So it came as bit of a shock to horrorphiles that Universal Pictures' "Slither" opened at No. 8 last weekend,...

By Borys KitLOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Slither" threw a scare into the box office this weekend, but it was not exactly the shock that its creators were hoping to achieve. This year, such horror movies as "Hostel," "When a Stranger Calls" and "Final Destination 3" have enjoyed a bloody good run -- bowing in first or second place with sales in the $20 million range.So it came as bit of a shock to horrorphiles that Universal Pictures'...

By Gregg Goldstein NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Indie movie distributor ThinkFilm has acquired worldwide rights to "Strangers With Candy," a feature based on the Comedy Central cult hit about 46-year-old ex-junkie high school student Jerri Blank. The complex deal amounts to about $2 million plus box office bonuses for the filmmakers, according to a source close to the negotiations. The company plans to release the film in exclusive engagements in late June or early July. The film,...

By Bob Tourtellotte PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - If director Steven Soderbergh and others have their way, movies may soon start appearing in homes and stores at the same time they hit theaters, paving the way for a revolution in the industry. On Friday, Soderbergh and businessman Todd Wagner are releasing "Bubble" as the first movie in a six-part series of low-budget films, all debuting in theaters and on a cable TV network owned by Wagner's company, as well as on DVD, at the same time...

By Bob Tourtellotte PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - A wave of movies with messages swept through the Sundance Film Festival by its mid-point on Tuesday reminding some old Hollywood stars like Robert Redford of the 1970s when films not only entertained audiences but informed them as well. Former vice president Al Gore made the rounds at this top U.S. gathering for independent film, to promote the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," about his crusade against global warming. Rosie O'Donnell...

By Bob Tourtellotte PARK CITY, Utah (Reuters) - The Sundance Film Festival entered its second week on Monday with more stars and parties than ever before, but only one big movie sale and the lack of action had industry tongues wagging "I told you so." The film that was sold -- "Little Miss Sunshine" -- went for a hefty price, more than $10 million, which when all the contract details are known may surpass the festival's record film sale of $10.25 million spent for "Happy, Texas" in...

By Gregg Goldstein NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - During the height of the studios' golden age, MGM used to boast that its movies featured "more stars than are in the heavens." But today that chant has been taken up by independent films. Traditionally, indie features provided opportunities for emerging artists to work with low budgets for next to nothing. But in the mid-1990s, an influx of bankable actors invaded the scene, willing to work for scale wages on labors of love to prove...

By Brooks Boliek WASHINGTON (Hollywood Reporter) - When Mike Mashon, head of the Library of Congress' moving image section, sent for a print of the 1933 Barbara Stanwyck movie "Baby Face" for an exhibition abroad, he was expecting the original release, kept at the library's Dayton, Ohio, facility. The film has become famous in the past few years, with historians hailing it as a superior example of a studio movie made before the imposition of the Hays Production Code, which clamped...

By Glenn Abel LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Death is good," producer Val Lewton said when asked what he was trying to say with one of his classy but creepy B-movies. Like a busted clock, he's right once in a while -- notably on that darkest of nights, October 31. Halloween 2005 brings an especially fine crop of chilling DVD entertainments. Let's unearth the best: The Val Lewton Horror Collection: Nine B-movie wonders Lewton produced for RKO in the 1940s. Lewton's best-known works...

By Nicole Sperling LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - 2929 Entertainment is demonstrating its belief in the indie filmmaker by creating a distribution company called Truly Indie that will allow filmmakers to control how and when their film gets distributed. Using 2929's Landmark Theater chain and marketing and distribution resources from Landmark and 2929's Magnolia Pictures, Truly Indie will provide filmmakers with a self-funded distribution operation whereby filmmakers pay a flat...