All Distribution articles – Page 522
-
News
Image takes all US rights to SXSW thriller The Tall Man
Jessica Biel stars as a nurse whose son is snatched by a figure of local folklore who has abducted children from the town of Cold Rock for years.
-
NewsFabrice Denizot appointed chief marketing officer at EuropaCorp
Cinema executive was formerly head business manager at Paramount Pictures France.
-
NewsThe Hunger Games tweaked in Britain for 12A
Seven seconds cut to “reduce an emphasis on blood and injury”.
-
NewsAnchor Bay takes revenge thriller Girls Against Boys
The distributor has swooped on Austin Chick’s popular SXSW Midnighter entry following its Friday premiere in Austin.
-
NewsMagnolia to handle US theatrical release of Bel Ami
The distributor negotiated the deal with Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions, who will take charge of all other US media, and will open the drama on Jun 8.
-
News
Music Box acquires North American rights to Keep The Lights On
Ira Sachs’ drama premiered in Sundance and went on to screen in Berlin where it won the Teddy Award. It screens in Tribeca next month.
-
NewsNonStop picks up Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom
NonStop has taken Scandinavian rights to the Cannes opener.
-
NewsProtagonist heats up EFM deals including Universal taking multiple territories on The Sweeney
EXCLUSIVE: Richard Ayoade’s The Double also a hot seller including French deal with Mars.
-
News
Lionsgate takes US, UK rights to Hummingbird
Jason Statham stars in the thriller, set to begin shooting in London on Monday (Mar 12). The studio negotiated the deal with worldwide rights holder IM Global.
-
NewsPhase 4, Kevin Smith fall for Slamdance winner Bindlestiffs
The North American rights deal brings in the first film under the recently announced partnership to get the branding support of the Kevin Smith’s SModcast Pictures Presents label.
-
NewsThe Loved Ones, The FP to get Tugg treatment
Both films have played on the midnight circuit and will get the benefit of the web-based service that enables people to vote which films screen at their local theatres.
-
NewsMGM cements int’l network with Lusomundo, Selim Ramia deals
Hot on the heels of clearing debt and securing a $500m revolving credit facility, the revitalised studio’s co-chairmen and CEOs Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum say they have effectively sealed their global distribution network with two fresh multi-year agreements.
-
News
Autonomy Pictures kicks off with US rights deal on The Bunny Game
Distribution veterans Derek Curl, David Gregory and Lewis Tice’s new distributor aims to release “uncompromising cinema on a worldwide scale” and will handle four films this year, starting with Adam Rehmeier’s torture porn.
-
News
Searchlight, Red Flag buy SXSW comedy Do-Deca-Pentathlon
Jay and Mark Duplass wrote and directed the film, set to receive its world premiere in Austin on Mar 11.
-
News
Gravitas, Variance Films launch distribution alliance at SXSW
The partners aim to acquire and jointly release seven or eight films a year simultaneously in theatres and on VoD.
-
NewsMPI Media Group snatches North American rights to Heineken Kidnapping
The Dutch thriller is based on the actual 1983 abduction of the brewery magnate Alfred Heineken who was eventually released for a €16m ransom.
-
NewseOne to ramp up TV co-productions, Peter Emerson relocates to London
Entertainment One (eOne) looks to ramp international co-productions with expanded European focus.
-
NewsCanal Plus chief Bertrand Meheut sounds alarm for French cinema
Meheut says international operators such as iTunes, Google and YouTube as well as Al Jazeera’s sporting ambitions pose threat to France’sunique film finance model.
-
News
Screen Media takes North American rights to Heleno
Jose Henrique Fonseca’s biopic of the 1940’s Brazilian footballer Heleno de Freitas has just screened at the Miami International Film Festival and will open theatrically in summer.
-
NewsOscar triumph lifts The Artist at the international box office
Michel Hazanavicius’ multi-award winner rises 68% and has now charmed its way to $63.7m, breaking the $100m worldwide mark in the process.