4 August 2008 7:34 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news
By Matt Singer and Alison Willmore
This week, indie director David Gordon Green tests out the mainstream waters with stoner comedy "Pineapple Express." It's not uncommon to see filmmakers getting their start in the independent world before moving on to studio fare, it's rare that we get to see the opposite scenario. This week on the IFC News podcast, we look at those instances where a successful studio director takes a pay and budget cut in order to make, if not necessarily an indie flick, certainly a smaller scale passion project.
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[Photo: "Pineapple Express," Columbia Pictures, 2008]
Alison Willmore
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