All Distribution articles – Page 398
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NewsGoDigital, Variance form Amplify
Top brass at both companies have launched an all-rights distributor and will attend Sundance to hunt for product.
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NewsStarz Digital Media takes Trust Me
Starz Digital Media has acquired US rights to Trust Me from UTA.
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NewsDespicable Me 3 to open June 2017
Universal Pictures top brass have announced a trio of key animation releases.
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NewsWolfe Releasing picks up EastSiders
The exclusive distributor of gay and lesbian films has acquired worldwide digital and DVD rights to the feature version of the web series.
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NewsSundance Artist Services selects 11
Sundance Institute has revealed the latest batch of 11 films available through digital platforms and storefronts via the Institute’s Artist Services programme. Separately, Vimeo On Demand has announced the first 13 on-demand titles it acquired in Toronto.
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NewsGravitas expands into theatrical
Heading into Sundance, Gravitas Ventures founder and CEO Nolan Gallagher has brought on Dustin Smith to oversee the newly launched Gravitas Theatrical.
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Newsmonterey media warms to Sun
The distributor has picked up US rights to Half Of A Yellow Sun starring Golden Globe nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor.
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NewsDisney UTV unveils 2014 slate
Indian studio Disney UTV has unveiled its release slate for 2014, which includes Hindi tentpoles such as P.K. starring Aamir Khan and Disney 3D titles Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Maleficent.
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NewsVisit boards four for Sundance
EXCLUSIVE: New York-based Visit Films has lined up a typically compelling slate for Park City, all of which will make their market premieres at the EFM in Berlin next month.
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NewsLakeshore, Nick Meyer plot sales alliance
Longtime collaborators Lakeshore Entertainment and Sierra/Affinity announced on January 13 they are forming a one-stop service offering global distribution for independent film-makers.
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NewsDistribution: Mood Indigo, Smiling Faces
Drafthouse Films has picked up from Studiocanal all US rights to Michel Gondry’s surreal romance starring Audrey Tautou and Romain Duris. Separately Tribeca Film has acquired Hide Your Smiling Faces.
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NewsBFI launches US distribution fund
Pilot P&A fund to launch at Sundance to help UK films break into North America.
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NewsDistribution: Stray Dogs finds a home
The Cinema Guild has acquired US rights from Urban Distribution International to Tsai Ming Liang’s Venice grand jury prize-winner Stray Dogs
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NewsO-Scope to feast on Banquet
Oscilloscope has taken world rights to Wayne Wang’s documentary Soul Of A Banquet following a work-in-progress benefit screening in 2013 at the San Francisco Film Society.
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NewsSlave, Wolf garner buzz ahead of UK launches
12 Years a Slave, Wolf of Wall Street, American Hustle stirring online buzz.
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NewsFack Ju Gohte leads 2013 German BO
Austria’s local hits led by documentary Alphabet; Local film boom in Switzerland.
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NewsStalingrad to get IMAX release
Colombia Pictures is bringing Fedor Bondarchuk’s Russian smash to the US and has struck a deal with IMAX for a one-week nationwide engagement starting on February 28.
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NewsDistribution: SPC, Woody Allen reunite
The distributor has picked up Magic In The Moonlight from Gravier Productions, marking its seventh collaboration with the prolific Allen following awards contender Blue Jasmine. Separately, Lionsgate and Tribeca Film announced new acquisitions.
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NewsNymphomaniac off to modest start in Denmark
The film has been seen by less than a 10th of the audience that turned out for von Trier’s early hit Breaking The Waves.
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NewsMongrel picks up Scandi hit Man
Mongrel Media has acquired all Canadian rights to The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared.