WOWOW in for Scorsese doc

By TBI reporter
8th April 2014 @ 08:55

Japanese pay TV broadcaster WOWOW has come on board Martin Scorsese’s documentary The New York Review of Books: A 50 Year Argument.

It will join HBO Documentary Films, BBC Arena and Scorsese’s Sikelia Productions as coproduction partners.

International distributor Cinephil is selling the doc at MIPTV.

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