Columbia TriStar's President of international film distribution, Duncan Clark, is looking optimistically towards the European release of competition pic The People Vs. Larry Flynt.
'The Berlin reception was extremely warm,' he said and reflects on the differences between US and European audiences and the anti-pornography lobby's reaction (Moving Pictures Berlinale, Issue 3): 'I feel passionately about Larry Flynt. In many ways, it's a conventional movie. It has a story - a beginning, a middle and an end. In the US, it got fantastic reviews. The problem is that pornographers in the US are regarded like child murderers.' The European spring release will begin with Belgium and France, on 19 February. In Germany, Flynt will bow on 150 prints, which indicates a upscale commercial marketing strategy for the Woody Harrelson starrer, already and audaciously acclaimed by several German publications as the 'best film of the year'.
Flynt opens in Germany as Columbia Tristar prepares to 'do something different and far larger' than other US studios regarding the financing of German film production and distribution, said Clark, who declined to go into details.
According to Variety Weekly, CTSI parent company Sony Pictures has applied for a tax ruling in Germany that would allow it to sell production-investment financing to Germans.Silke Schütze, John Hopewell
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