Documentary sells 100,000 Dvd’s
The film A Very British Gangster has recorded over 100,000 sales by Dvd and is now on sale in the US through Netflix. The US rights were acquired by Anywhere Road and the UK rights by Contender. The film received support from the Irish FIlm Board.
Variety reports that Anywhere Road has acquired North American rights to the doc “A Very British Gangster,” about Dominic Noonan, a notorious leader of a powerful Blighty organized crime family who was openly gay and championed the working class. Noonan legally changed his name to Lattlay Fottfoy, an acronym for the family motto:
“Look after those that look after you, fuck off those that fuck off you.” Directed by Donal MacIntyre, “Gangster” screened at Sundance in 2007. Netflix subsid Red Envelope snapped up DVD rights. Anywhere Road is an indie distrib whose recent releases include “Black Irish” and “Antonia.”
