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Brooklyn's Finest (2009)
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"The Sundance Film Festival had it’s first major deal go down Saturday night as young distributor Senator Entertainment (in a co-venture with Sony Pictures Worldwide) picked up North American rights to Antoine Fuqua’s admittedly unfinished Brooklyn’s Finest for a price tag of less than $5 million (with a marketing commitment of $10 million). Other acquisitions made just before and since the festival began include the following: Visit Films purchased worldwide rights to Ry Russo-Young’s You Won’t Miss Me, N.C. Heikin’s Korean War documentary Kimjongilia and David Russo’s comedy The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle. PBS’ P.O.V. series picked up television rights to two documentaries: William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe and
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"Midday, May 27, 2008. I was on the edge of East NY, Brooklyn, looking for a shop that sold $10 Boost phone cads. Not the $20 ones– what am I, Trump? Somebody told me to go over to Pitkin Avenue in Brownsville, across the L train tracks. Once there, I stumbled across a great commotion at the Vad Dyke Houses housing project. Crowds were gathered and men with walkie talkies darted about. A crime scene. No, a movie shoot. I went up to a short black woman with dreads, a headset and a hardware store full of items hanging from her cargo pants. “What’s shooting?” I asked. “Brooklyn’s Finest, a movie,” she said. “Cop stuff, huh?” “Well, sorta. It’s the director who did Training Day, Antoine Fuqua.” “Ah, Fuqua,” I said, remembering how much I love that director’s tactile widescreen compositions but mostly loathe his vision of humanity. Never mind. I had my digital recorder on me, so I whipped it out and decided to play Film Journalist with the cute P.A. “Can I interview you?” “Well, I don’t ... "
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