All Distribution articles – Page 464
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NewsStrand Releasing acquires US rights to Zaytoun
Stephen Dorff stars in Eran Riklis’ story of an unlikely alliance between a 12-year-old Palestinian refugee and an Israeli fighter pilot shot down over Beirut in 1982.
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NewsSycamore Pictures lines up Christmas Miracle
The Way, Way Back producers Sycamore Pictures will produce and finance the dysfunctional holiday comedy A Friggin’ Christmas Miracle. Hyde Park International will introduce to buyers at EFM.
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NewsKino Lorber snaps up Computer Chess
The distributor has acquired all US rights to Andrew Bujalski’s comedy following its world premiere at Sundance last month.
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NewsMyriad circles Jessica Alba for Weightless
Kirk D’Amico has begun pre-sales at EFM and announced on Friday [8] that Jessica Alba is in final negotiations to star.
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NewsYoung Ones sells for 6 Sales, The Exchange
Tristan Orpen Lynch of Ireland’s Subotica and Michael Auret of Spier Films have commenced production in South Africa on Jake Paltrow’s Young Ones.
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NewsBeta reports Physician, Devil’s Violinist sales
Beta has closed pre-sales on Philip Stoelzl’s adventure epic The Physician with Ben Kingsley, Stellan Skarsgard and Tom Payne, as well as Bernard Rose’s mystical biopic The Devil’s Violinist.
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NewsFocus reunites with Mike Leigh on Turner biopic
EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features International (FFI) will handle worldwide sales on the film about the celebrated English landscape painter J M W Turner to star Timothy Spall and will co-finance with BFI and Film4.
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NewsArclight eyes Lookalike
EXCLUSIVE: Arclight Films has acquired crime romance The Lookalike with a cast including John Corbett, Justin Long, Scottie Thompson, Jerry O’Connell and Gina Gershon.
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NewsArsenal Pictures, The G-Machine partner on new slate
The Los Angeles-based companies have teamed up with production company Content Aggregator to jointly produce, finance and sell a slate of films kicking off at the EFM.
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NewsVisit Films boards sales on Upstream Color
Shane Carruth’s follow-up to his acclaimed thriller Primer will receive its international premiere in Panorama on Sunday [10] following last month’s Sundance debut.
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NewsShoreline Entertainment checks into Geography Club
Morris Ruskin’s Los Angeles-based production and sales company has picked up world sales rights to Huffington Pictures’ coming-of-age drama.
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News2+2 a hot seller for Rud's FilmSharks
FilmSharks has closed multiple territories on Diego Kaplan’s swingers drama 2+2 (A Couple With A Couple).
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Snapper launches Scandi distrib
Helsinki and New York based production company Snapper Films is expanding by establishing a new distribution arm.
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NewsK5 Mans up with Tim Robbins
K5 has boarded international rights to Man Under, the new feature to be directed by and to star Tim Robbins.
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NewseOne picks up Reese Witherspoon refugee drama
eOne strikes multi-territory deal for The Good Lie.
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NewsWeinstein acquires Grandmaster
The Weinstein Company has picked up key territories to Wong Kar Wai’s Berlinale opener The Grandmaster, taking all US and English-speaking Canadian territories from Annapurna as well as UK, Australian and New Zealand rights from Wild Bunch.
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108 Media boards John Leguizamo’s Fugly!
108 Media has added John Leguizamo’s autobiographical comedy Fugly! to its EFM sales slate and plans a US release in the third quarter.
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NewsPostcards from the Zoo to receive synchronised European VoD release
Edwin’s drama will be the first film to receive a synchronised VoD release in seven European countries as part of The Match Factory’s initiative Distribution 2.0.
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NewsCohen Media Group takes May In The Summer
The US distributor has picked up all US rights from Elle Driver to Cherien Dabis’ Amreeka follow-up after its recent world premiere in Sundance.
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NewsSolar Pictures, Italia strike multi-territory output
Solar Pictures has closed a multi-year output agreement with Italia Film for the Middle East, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Maldives.