All Distribution articles – Page 469
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NewseOne, 1984 Private Defense Contractors sign first-look deal
Under the terms of the multi-year arrangement eOne gets first look to finance and distribute all 1984 films. LA-based Spencer Silna and Adi Shankar’s slate includes Corsica ’72 from Skyfall writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade and the untitled Female Expendables project.
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NewsUniversal sets Richard Curtis’ About Time for Nov 1
The Working Title comedy will open in limited release in North America and expand nationwide a week later. It originally had been dated for May 10.
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NewsFilms Distribution picks up Golden Bear contender Harmony Lessons
Paris-based sales outfit also selling Nanouk Leopold’s Panorama screener It’s All So Quiet and documentary Parade.
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NewsCinedigm takes North American rights to Narco Cultura
The distributor plans a theatrical awards qualifying run this year after acquiring Shaul Schwarz’s Berlin-bound Sundance premiere. K5 handles international sales.
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NewsBAFTA and ICO launch theatrical screenings of nominated shorts
Package will launch April 12 at London’s ICA.
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NewsQED International adds Breathe In to EFM slate
The LA-based production, financing and sales company has picked up its second film from Sundance and will introduce Drake Doremus’ acclaimed drama to buyers in Berlin.
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NewsDistribution: Codeblack takes Angela, Drafthouse declares War
Lionsgate’s Codeblack Films has acquired rights to Free Angela And All Political Prisoners. The documentary about the political activist Angela Davis premiered in Toronto last year.
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NewsIndependent boards For No Good Reason; Sony picks up US rights
Charlie Paul’s documentary about English cartoonist Ralph Steadman features Johnny Depp and will be introduced to buyers at the upcoming EFM.
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NewsEmbankment boards Wyatt's Birdsong, Serkis' Animal Farm; Gillian Anderson on sci-fi
X Files star attached to Our Robot Overlords as UK sales outfit Embankment Films builds on prestige slate ahead of the EFM.
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NewsIndomina Releasing closes doors
The Indomina Group division ceased trading as a US distributor this week as approximately 15 members of staff from the Los Angeles-based company were let go.
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NewsAltitude boards Shane Meadows Stone Roses doc
Revolver to release Stone Roses doc in spring; StudioCanal take UK on Kill Your Friends; eOne buys multi-territories on Outpost 37.
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NewsK5 secures Beware of Mr Baker for EFM
K5 International has picked up the international rights to rock drummer documentary Beware of Mr Baker and will take the award-winning film to Berlin’s European Film Market next week.
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NewsMusic Box takes Le Weekend, Dada goes gaga for Mental
Music Box will distribute Roger Michell’s Le Weekend, while MJ Peckos and Steven Raphael’s Dada Films has picked up Toni Collette’s reunion with her Muriel’s Wedding director PJ Hogan.
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NewsCinema do Brasil launches Sales Agent Support at EFM
Any sales agent who has a film produced by an associate of Cinema Do Brasil will be entitled to apply for support the film promotion.
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NewsMPM picks up Workers and Habi, the Foreigner
EXCLUSIVE: Sales arm of Paris-based production house MPM heads to EFM with biggest slate to date.
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NewsMetrodome strikes for Luke Treadaway action Get Lucky
EXCLUSIVE: Distributor inks UK theatrical deal for action film starring Luke Treadaway, Universal Pictures (UK) handles home ent.
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eOne hires acquisition execs from ITV and Teletoon
Entertainment One (eOne) has bolstered its executive team with the hire of two acquisition managers, Jessica Watson and Justina Hemeprek.
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NewsVoltage Pictures to start sales on Words And Pictures
Nicolas Chartier will look to stir up pre-sales in Berlin on the Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche romance in the run-up to a March 18 production start in Vancouver.
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NewsTaylor & Dodge to handle international sales on Hello Herman
Santa Monica-based All In Films Partners produced the drama about a bullied high school student who snaps and goes on a murderous rampage.
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NewseOne bites for Jim Mickle's We Are What We Are
Entertainment One has acquired the US rights to Mickle’s reimagining of Jorge Michel Grau’s cannibal horror of the same name.