
The Wagner/Cuban Companies’ Magnolia Pictures announced today that it has acquired world rights to SMASH HIS CAMERA, an acclaimed new documentary from Academy Award winning director Leon Gast (When We Were Kings), winner of the Best Director award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Produced by Adam Schlesinger and Linda Saffire, the film was recently acquired by HBO for US broadcast rights. The film is the story of infamous New York City paparazzo Ron Galella, legendary for his restraining order from Jackie O and losing five teeth at the hands of Marlon Brando, all in the service of generating some of the most iconic and memorable celebrity photographs of the 1970s. A philosophical probing look at our culture’s relationship with celebrity, the documentary is also as entertaining and vivid as the Galella’s brilliant photography.