All Distribution articles – Page 407
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NewsUni dates The Purge 2
Universal Pictures has set the release date for its follow-up to this year’s micro-budget horror hit.
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NewsPNP checks in to Le Week-End
Pacific Northwest Pictures (PNP) has acquired all Canadian rights to Roger Michell’s rom-com Le Week-End starring Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan and Jeff Goldblum.
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NewsMember, Documented in US deals
Drafthouse Films has picked up North American rights to Jonah Bekhor and Zach Math’s documentary The Final Member, while in a separate deal CNN Films has acquired US broadcast rights to Documented.
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NewsFilm4 digital arm to be integrated
Digital opportunities and multiplatform innovation are so at the heart of Film4’s future plans that they are banishing the Film4.0 label.
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NewsStarred Up sets UK release date
Fox Searchlight to release BIFA nominee, starring Jack O’Connell and Homeland’s Rupert Friend.
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NewsGerman distribs close AFM deals
EXCLUSIVE: New films by David Cronenberg, Quentin Dupieux and Lone Scherfig are among the titles acquired by German distributors at this year’s AFM.
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NewsRai Trade seals AFM, Rome deals
EXCLUSIVE: Titles include The Mercury Factor, Neverlake, L’Intrepido and Song e’ Napule.
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NewsFrontera, Watermark find homes
Magnolia Pictures has acquired US rights to the crime drama Frontera, while eOne Films US has picked up the documentary Watermark.
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NewsTraverse to release Treachery
Traverse Media has acquired North American digital rights to the Blanc/Biehn Productions thriller starring Michael Biehn.
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NewsKenyan films go on UK tour
Bristol’s Watershed is teaming up with Afrika Eye to present two new Kenyan films in UK cinemas through March 2014.
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NewsJust Friends? gets Korean court approval
The Supreme Court of Korea yesterday (Nov 14) overturned a teenager restricted rating given to Kim Jho Gwang-soo’s gay romance Just Friends? by the Korea Media Ratings Board (KMRB).
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NewsPartners to release Anonymous
Screen Media Films and Starz Digital Media have partnered on North American rights to Ellie Kanner’s comedy Authors Anonymous starring Kaley Cuoco, Chris Klein, Dennis Farina, Jonathan Bennett, Dylan Walsh, and Teri Polo.
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NewsDigital distribution debated in Rome
Execs from Curzon and Magnolia Pictures discussed digital models at the Rome Film Festival.
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NewsHollywood Classics signs Halas and Batchelor
EXCLUSIVE: Deal with former UK animation studio includes 1954 classic Animal Farm.
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NewsDavid Tennant’s Richard II scores at UK box office
More than 80,000 admissions, £1m for first ‘live from Stratford-Upon-Avon’ screenings.
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NewsSoda finds Vivian Maier
EXCLUSIVE: UK distributor inks deal for Toronto doc about US photographer; HanWay select confirms more deals.
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NewsPhilomena earns PG-13 rating
The Weinstein Company’s (TWC) latest ratings battle has resulted in a victory after the MPAA overturned Philomena’s R classification.
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NewsFactory 25 takes All The Light
Factory 25 has acquired US rights to director Joe Swanberg’s All the Light in the Sky.
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NewsNight sells for XYZ Films
XYZ Films has closed a raft of deals at AFM on The Night Comes For Us, its Indonesian and English-language action-thriller collaboration with Gareth Evans’ PT Merantau Films.
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NewsTrustNordisk closes deals on Ragnarok
Family adventure sells to China, Indonesia, Spain, Brazil and Thailand.