IFC bringing 'Gomorra' to U.S.

May 27, 2008 IFC Entertainment, one of the more active film buyers at the recently concluded Festival de Cannes, has acquired U.S. distribution rights to the Grand Prix winner "Gomorra" for under $1 million. "Just when we thought we had seen it all, Matteo Garrone has reinvented the Italian Mafia picture with such originality and invention that it seems entirely new," IFC Entertainment president Jonathan Sehring said. The company intends to release the film on its proprietary video-on-demand service simultaneously with the theatrical bow and also strike a cable TV deal, but a spokeswoman said that wouldn't necessarily result in the film's debuting on the IFC cable net.

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