The second life of "The Brown Bunny"
Now, this movie is totally saved.
http://www.screendaily.com/story.asp?storyid=20957
Columbia TriStar, SPRI pick up Brown Bunny
Jeremy Kay in Los Angeles 11 February 2005
Columbia TriStar has picked up DVD and television rights from Wellspring to Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny, with Sony Pictures Releasing International (SPRI) acquiring a slew of international rights from Kinetique.
SPRI picked up rights to the UK, Italy, Scandinavia, Australia, New Zealand, India, Lebanon, Israel, Turkey, and Asia, excluding Japan and Thailand.
The Brown Bunny stirred up a storm in Cannes 2003, when a fellatio scene between Gallo and former lover Chloe Sevigny stirred tempers and led to a feud between Gallo and the critic Roger Ebert.
Gallo later relented and admitted his picture, which centres on a lovelorn motorcycle driver's trans-American trek to reunite with the love of his life, was "a disaster of a film".
Wellspring opened The Brown Bunny in limited theatrical release late last year, when it grossed less than $1m. Now in the Sony stable, the picture is likely to garner a cult following on DVD, where the oral gratification scene in particular will be a firm favourite with the pause button brigade.
Kinetique released a cut version in Japanese theatres in late 2003 that grossed more than $1m. Wild Bunch picked up rights at Cannes 2003 and released it in France early last year.
