IFC adds pair to day-and-date lineup

September 20, 2007 Tom Kalin's crime drama "Savage Grace," starring Julianne Moore and Hugh Dancy, and Justin Lin's Bruce Lee mockumentary "Finishing the Game," featuring James Franco and MC Hammer. Because each film sports bankable actors, IFC might test whether exhibitors resistant to day-and-date releases will book films also available on VOD. "Grace," the $5 million true story of socialite Barbara Daly Baekeland's 1972 murder, was picked up for the IFC First Take day-and-date distribution program along with Lin's $500,000-range comedy, which imagines the recasting of Lee's final role in "Game of Death" before filming was completed.

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