Still, the German reformer's influence on King, who was not a scholar of Lutherism, was profound, if largely indirect, said Lischer. Otherwise, though, the pastor from Georgia rarely quoted the German, said Richard Lischer, professor emeritus of preaching at Duke University and the author of "The Preacher King: Martin Luther King Jr. Here King quotes Luther's famous dictum, "Here I stand I cannot do otherwise, so help me God," alongside references to other historic figures like Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson. In any case, while both Kings became known publicly by the new moniker, the name change was apparently never recorded in official documents, and the two continued to be known in the family as Little Mike and Big Mike.Īnother instance in which King deliberately invoked his namesake was his letter from a Birmingham jail. There are differing accounts as to whether the older King, who was born Michael King, chose to rename himself and his son Michael Jr, upon his return from a Baptist conference in Berlin in the 1930s, where he had been impressed by the late German reformer, or whether - as the elder King told a New York newspaper in 1957 - he was renamed by his own father and decided to bestow the name on his son, too. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video What caught my attention was that they bought it while in post-production and after tiff we haven't got any news regarding the US.Wittenberg: In the footsteps of Martin Luther I didn't mean that they deliberately left the Us out. I just wanted to know why, if a big company like Sony got the distribution for the movie in many countries, they didn't acquire it for the US? The director and those involved arent going out of there way to not get it bought so the US audience can't see it :blink: I guess I didn't explain myself. The companies in those countries bought the rights to distribute. Their job is to market your movie(which cost a lot),etc. How do you think independent films make revenue or get their films seen?Ī distribution company see's your movie making a profit for them so they by it. Why distribute it in every other contry but the US?What kind of question is that? It has to be bought. Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) has acquired multiple territories including Germany, Spain, Japan, CIS, South Korea, Benelux, Latin America, Greece, Portugal, Portugal, Turkey, all of Asia and South Africa. "As proof, “Disobedience” has been acquired by Curzon Artificial Eye for the U.K., Roadshow for Australia, Mars for France, Cinema SRL for Italy, Lev for Israel, and Pathe for Switzerland.
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