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B.D.FOX TO DISTRIBUTE GALIFIANAKIS’ “VISIONEERS”

Posted Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011 - 1 Comment »
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Malibu, CA (May 3, 2011) – B.D. Fox Independent, in partnership with Viva Pictures, will distribute the feature VISIONEERS, starring Zach Galifianakis, direct to DVD in a unique gross deal distribution platform for filmmakers Jared and Brandon Drake, it was announced today by Brian D. Fox.

The satirical comedy street dates May 14 at Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Target, Kmart and other major independent retail outlets, and in Redbox kiosks May 24.

“As a producer’s partner we are offer an uncomplicated deal based on gross wholesale revenue from DVD units sold, VOD transactions, and digital downloads,” said Fox. “Gone are the days of unaudited sales reports, overhead charges, and lengthy recoupment of marketing and distribution expenses. Profits are paid out of first revenues received, with sales reported on a daily basis. We are the only distributor doing this type of gross deal format.”

“Brian is both talented and trustworthy – a rare combination in this business,” said the film’s director Jared Drake. “His creative marketing plan is spot on and the gross distribution deal will give us better profits than the other offers we were presented.”

VISIONEERS, which was described by Ain’t It Cool News as a “…great, smart, dark comedy,” was the most downloaded movie on Hulu for three weeks in March of this year.

A satirical look at the effects of corporate culture, VISIONEERS tells the story of George Washington Winsterhammerman (Galifianakis). An ordinary man with a comfortable life, George gives up everything he knows in an attempt to follow his dreams, along the way finding true happiness and personal freedom.

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One Response to “B.D.FOX TO DISTRIBUTE GALIFIANAKIS’ “VISIONEERS””

  1. Matthew says:
    May 6, 2011 at 3:41 pm

    Terrible movie.

    It’s been available to stream and rent via disc since July 2009 on Netflix, as well. I hope no one wastes their money on it.

    The first 20 minutes, OK. Then they just take 1 punchline and stretch it into a movie – not a good idea.

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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?

So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.

And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.

There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.

I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.

So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.

But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”

My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher

“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.

~ David Simon