With Bob in the Big Leagues, Indies Can Breathe Easy

On the evening of Wednesday, March 23, the members of the independent film world gathered to toast the New York premiere of Rebecca Miller’s The Ballad of Jack and Rose were positively giddy. Bob Berney had just parlayed the distribution arm of Newmarket Films into a new joint venture with HBO and New Line-creating a Read More

The Inmates Move East: Reconceived U.A. Returns

After June’s ugly shuttering of the Shooting Gallery, the outlook for New York’s film community got considerably brighter on Aug. 2 with the announcement that United Artists, the film company founded in 1919 by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith and William S. Hart, would be returning to its New York birthplace with Read More