Start Your Week With Magnolia Mondays

Violet Crown season highlights the indie powerhouse

"...Starting tonight, Violet Crown Cinema has launched Magnolia Mondays, a series celebrating the best films released by..."

Jan. 14, 2019 Screens Post by Britt Hayes

Magnolia Becomes 'Drinking Buddies,' Magnet Gets 'Milo'

SXSW acquisitions continue with ensemble drama and horror comedy

"...ensemble drama Drinking Buddies has just been acquired by Magnolia Pictures. He's not the only one to be celebrating,..."

March 19, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Rubber

Rubber is a movie about a sentient, telekinetic, and homicidal tire on a rampage.

"...filled with no reason. Fans of Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia may sense a kinship here, but that (truly great)..."

April 1, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Brand on the Run

Synergy is the name of the game at Drafthouse Films, the distribution arm of the Alamo empire

"...newly formed Drafthouse Films would be co-releasing it with Magnolia Pictures. So, was it a well-considered evolution and expansion..."

Aug. 31, 2012 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Big in Japan, but What About Austin?

Magnolia Pictures and the Alamo Drafthouse hope to build an audience for a Japanese oddity here in the heart of Texas

"...limited test run here in Austin – courtesy of Magnolia Pictures and the Alamo Drafthouse – before expanding to..."

April 25, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

What’s Happening With Austin Cinemas

Who's open, who's closed, and who went online

"...is offering new releases, plus the return of its Magnolia Mondays screenings, going through the archives of Magnolia Pictures..."

May 15, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Space Invaders on a Shoestring Budget

Monsters is the best monster movie of the millennium (so far)

"..."Well, my girlfriend's an actress" and sent me some pictures. She looked stunning, so much so that it actually..."

Oct. 29, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Bubble

Steven Soderbergh’s Bubble is likely to be remembered as the adequate but unspectacular first volley in Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner’s modern experiment in vertical film integration.

"...Broadcast.com billionaires are now owners of the distribution company Magnolia Pictures, the national arthouse theatre chain Landmark Theatres (which..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Pulse

The ghost is literally in the machine in this prototypical Japanese horror film that works primarily with dread and inexplicable phenomena rather than blood and guts.

"...Wes Craven), Pulse was reacquired for theatrical release by Magnolia Pictures. A lot has happened during the four years..."

Jan. 6, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Woman Thou Art Loosed

Based on a novel by Bishop T.D. Jakes, a black evangelical preacher and author who also co-stars, this unusual film is part revivalist sermon, part narrative drama, and wholly urgent and engaging.

"...but is now going national with this release by Magnolia Pictures (the same company that put out the films..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

"I Made a Movie, and They Didn't Want It!"

Shut out by distribution companies, indie filmmakers go DIY when it comes to getting their movie out there.

"...a chance on it. For Eammon Bowles, president of Magnolia Pictures (which is distributing the arthouse hit Capturing the..."

July 11, 2003 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Film News

Updates on Robert's and Rick's adaptations, Texas on TV, and 'Dot' plays L.A.; plus, have you ever considered a double bill of 'Tarnation' and 'Mrs. Doubtfire'?

"...Smartest Guys in the Room will be released by Magnolia Pictures. It's the first feature from HDNet Films, which,..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Extra Credit

How a class I took in college helped find distribution for a low-budget, high-caliber indie

"...was right. Shortly after the festival, Landmark Theatres and Magnolia Pictures CEO Bill Banowsky came to our class with..."

July 14, 2006 Screens Feature by Brian Clark

The Austin Chronicle Guide to the Mission: Impossible Movies

Your mission, if you choose to accept it ...

"...themes - a theme so great that when Paramount Pictures revamped classic '60s spy thriller Mission: Impossible for the..."

July 14, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Austin Cinemas Go Virtual

New initiative changes the game for VOD to benefit indie theatres and distributors

"...some of the biggest names in indie distribution – Magnolia, Oscilloscope, and Vimeo – as well as newcomers like..."

April 3, 2020 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Sun Sets on the Big 'Dance

Sundance ends with acquisitions and accolades for Austin filmmakers

"...trilogy, and it was purchased for distribution by Sony Pictures Classics in one of the bigger sales of the..."

Feb. 1, 2013 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Way We Watch Now

Is theatrical-on-demand the next big thing?

"...Crown, and even though they'd already secured distribution through Magnolia Pictures' Truly Indie arm, they signed up for the..."

June 22, 2012 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Way We Watch Now: Case Studies

Five experiments in theatrical-on-demand

"...last fall through Truly Indie, a distributing arm of Magnolia Pictures. The home crowd gave the film a four-week..."

June 22, 2012 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

At Wit’s End: Bob Byington on His Dry New Comedy, Lousy Carter

“My career puzzles people, including myself”

"...of the biggest coups of Byington’s career, the prestigious Magnolia Pictures picked up Lousy Carter for distribution, and after..."

March 27, 2024 Screens Post by Shawn Badgley

Evo Entertainment Acquires Violet Crown Cinemas

Firm to be renamed Elevate Entertainment Group

"...in Austin in 2011 by Bill Banowsky, founder of Magnolia Pictures and former CEO of Landmark Theatres. It's not..."

Oct. 23, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

SXSW Film Review: Little Richard: I Am Everything

The architect of rock & roll gets a detailed but thin biography

"...be heresy, and this SXSW-selected CNN production (acquired by Magnolia Pictures after its Sundance Film Festival premiere) does everything..."

March 16, 2023 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Sundance 2023 Review: Little Richard: I Am Everything

The architect of rock & roll gets his flowers in new documentary

"...would be heresy, and this CNN production (acquired by Magnolia Pictures after its Sundance Film Festival premiere) does everything..."

Jan. 24, 2023 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Local Cinemas Embrace Online Experiment to Ride Out Coronavirus Closures

AFS, Alamo, and Violet Crown all screening online

"...for a three-day rental. That's the same price as Magnolia Pictures, which has created virtual theaters for Once Were..."

March 28, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Fantastic Fest 2015 Revisited

With the 2016 lineup here, time for VOD and DVD reruns

"...By contrast, In Order of Disappearance (Magnolia Pictures, arriving on VOD Aug. 26) is a crime..."

Aug. 6, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

FF2012: Now It's Your Turn For Fantastic Fest Features

'Combat Girls,' 'Vanishing Waves' acquired, more get release dates

"...the same day, Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of Magnolia Pictures, announced they will handle the US release of..."

Sept. 30, 2012 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Playback: They Only Came To Kick Some Ass

Both Jack Black the actor and Jack Black the rocker rule Austin

"...Banowsky, who founded film distributors Magnolia Pictures, also lauds the Tenacious D frontman: "Jack Black..."

July 27, 2012 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The ABCs of VOD

Bill Hicks, video on demand and the future for indie film finances

"...still applies with digital because of virtual print fees.) Magnolia Pictures president Eamonn Bowles said, "With VOD, you're everywhere..."

March 12, 2012 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Violet Crown Under Construction

New Downtown arthouse theatre plans soft opening in spring

"...chief executive officer with Landmark Theatres, a founder of Magnolia Pictures, and founder and owner of Carolina Cinemas, knows..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Go Big or Go Home

Drafthouse Films gets into the distribution game with Four Lions

"...on a relationship the Alamo had already cultivated with Magnolia Pictures/Magnet Films (for the February DVD release); handling the..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Enron Autopsy

Alex Gibney on The Smartest Guys in the Room'

"...up to judge and jury (and the timing of Magnolia Pictures' theatrical release of the film, of course), two..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Shawn Badgley

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