Netflix has been dipping its streaming giant toes into more and more corners of the entertainment business with their move to producing films along with streaming TV shows. Now it looks like the company may be about to help a famously unfinished film finally get seen: Orson Welles' The Other Side of the Wind. According to Wellesnet, Netflix has been in talks with the rights holders/producers for The Other Side of the Wind, Oja Kodar, Filip Jan Rymsza, Frank Marshall and Jens Koethner Kaul, to pay over $5 million for a two-picture deal that would include the finished film for streaming and theatrical release rights, and a companion documentary. So far, only Kodar has refused to sign off on the deal. The Other Side of the Wind has a long history beset with problems. Orson Welles originally came up with the idea in 1937 after a feud with writer Ernest Hemingway.
- 4/6/2016
- cinemablend.com
Just in time for what would've been his 100th birthday, the late filmmaking legend Orson Welles is getting an ambitious present from the internet. His last movie, The Other Side of the Wind (a.k.a. cinema's most famous unfinished, unreleased project), has become Hollywood's latest Indiegogo campaign. Producers Filip Jan Rymsza, Jens Koethner Kaul, and Frank Marshall — all of whom have fought long and hard to nab the rights to Wind — want to raise $2 million and create movie-making history by crowd-funding the last chapter of Welles's film and ushering this film to completion and release. Depending on your donation you'll be dubbed anything from a "Film Lover" to a "Film Connoisseur," and you'll receive commemorative Welles cigars (get these before Jay Z does!), a bathrobe (necessary), a Blu-ray/DVD copy of the film (solid), or Welles's Citizen Kane scrapbook (very rare, very expensive, hello). It's the opportunity of a lifetime,...
- 5/7/2015
- by Sean Fitz-Gerald
- Vulture
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