Personal Effects

• Blockbuster signs deals for indie exclusives Titles include Screen Media's Personal Effects, Battle in Seattle

  Published on: May 1, 2009

  Blockbuster has been quietly but aggressively adding rental title exclusives to its shelves.

  A number of indie films, including Screen Media’s Personal Effects and Battle in Seattle and E1 Entertainment’s Baby on Board, are popping up within exclusive 30-day windows at Blockbuster before their wider release at other retailers.

  Personal Effects is currently available only at Blockbuster until its May 12 larger retail bow. Baby on Board is expected on Blockbuster shelves this month before its wide June 2 release. Battle in Seattle was at Blockbuster in February before launching wide on March 10.

  Some rival retailers, including members of the National Entertainment Buying Group, have expressed concern over not having the same ability to offer customers such films at the same time as Blockbuster.

  However, in several instances, the Blockbuster exclusive was arranged outside of distributors’ control. For example, Screen Media lacked the rights to deliver Battle in Seattle and Personal Effects to its retail partners until Blockbuster’s 30-day exclusive on the title ended. In these two cases, the films’ producers struck separate deals with Blockbuster for their exclusive roll-out at the chain. Screen Media then negotiated with the producers, Redwood Palm and Insight Films, respectively, to distribute the titles to other retailers.

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• Ashton Kutcher: ‘I just feel so darned grown-up!’

  Published on: May 20, 2008

  "Ashton Kutcher had a reputation as a party boy until he married a woman 15 years his senior, who happened to be Demi Moore. But as Rob Driscoll discovers, Kutcher is keen to redress the birthday boundaries once and for all."

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• Pimped and punk'd out in Vancouver

  Published on: December 5, 2007

  Metro Canada has filed a report on Personal Effects and its production in the Vancouver area.

  "Hollywood star Ashton Kutcher has been spotted sporting a new twist to the classic yellow raincoat in rain-drenched Vancouver.

  A chicken suit-clad Kutcher was seen on the set of Personal Effects, an adaptation of the Rick Moody story Mansion on the Hill, that has been filming in the city since November.

  In the movie, which co-stars Michelle Pfeiffer and Kathy Bates, Kutcher plays Andrew Wakefield, a young man with a rubber mask fetish who struggles with the sudden death of his sister in a pre-wedding car crash.The film follows Wakefield's tale through a blend of memories and scenes from his present life as a wedding planner, a career he begins after his sister's death.Personal Effects is scheduled for a 2009 release."

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