'Tell No One' a word-of-mouth hit

July 31, 2008 [...] even more surprising than the box-office of the two-hour French-language film with a mostly unknown cast is the story of the company behind its U.S. release, Music Box Films, a startup distributor that grew out of a Chicago arthouse theater only last year. The label's founder, a lawyer and real estate entrepreneur named William Schopf, came to the movie business almost by chance. Last year, Schopf decided to become a distributor -- in part, he says, because it felt like a smarter way to expand than opening more theaters, but in part because he wanted to do something for his employees.

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