NEW YORK -- After collecting dust Miramax Films' shelves for five years, Wisit Sasanatieng's Thai action film Tears of the Black Tiger will be unleashed in the U.S. by Magnolia Pictures.
The studio nabbed all domestic rights to the acclaimed Tiger from Miramax, which bought the rights to the film in North America, Latin America and South America and other territories shortly after it became the first Thai film to appear In Competition at the 2001 Festival de Cannes.
Tiger is just one of dozens of films that the Daniel Battsek-led Miramax inherited from the company's previous heads Harvey and Bob Weinstein, who had gone on a buying spree of mainly Asian martial arts movies. Miramax holds theatrical rights to handful of those films, which it plans to release through similar deals in the near future.
The spaghetti Western-style Tiger tracks Dum, a gunslinger who falls for a high-society woman but finds his gang and her father are set on keeping them apart.
The studio nabbed all domestic rights to the acclaimed Tiger from Miramax, which bought the rights to the film in North America, Latin America and South America and other territories shortly after it became the first Thai film to appear In Competition at the 2001 Festival de Cannes.
Tiger is just one of dozens of films that the Daniel Battsek-led Miramax inherited from the company's previous heads Harvey and Bob Weinstein, who had gone on a buying spree of mainly Asian martial arts movies. Miramax holds theatrical rights to handful of those films, which it plans to release through similar deals in the near future.
The spaghetti Western-style Tiger tracks Dum, a gunslinger who falls for a high-society woman but finds his gang and her father are set on keeping them apart.
- 11/27/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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