All Distribution articles – Page 572
-
NewsMongrel Media takes Canadian rights to Circumstance
The distributor acquired Maryam Keshavarz’s (pictured) feature directorial debut and Sundance audience award winner from Participant Media.
-
NewsOpen Road partners with Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Universal Studios Home Entertainment (USHE) will handle all marketing, sales and distribution services for Blu-ray, DVD and digital platforms of Open Road Films’ theatrical titles.
-
NewsMillennium Entertainment acquires US rights to Puncture
Adam Kassen and Mark Kassen directed the legal drama starring Chris Evans. Millennium plans an autumn release.
-
NewsRentrak’s International Box Office Achievement Award to be presented to Warner Bros
Award in recognition of the European performance of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1
-
NewsBill Duke joins Freaky Deaky for director Charles Matthau
The Elmore Leonard crime caper also stars Sienna Miller, William H Macy, Brendan Fraser and Matt Dillon. Duke will play the role of homicide detective Wendell Robinson.
-
NewsRelativity Media to release Soderbergh’s Haywire
For the second time in a week the company has taken over distribution from a film that Lionsgate was set to release.
-
NewsPanda 2, Thor drive PPI past $1bn in 2011 ticket sales
The company reached the milestone on Jun 10, four days earlier than its prior record and for the fifth consecutive year.
-
News
Circus Road Films to handle domestic sale on Joy
The drama from Red Love Film follows two sisters who come to terms with a devastating loss.
-
NewsTarsem commences shoot on Relativity’s Snow White
FilmNation handled international sales on the film in Cannes, where it was one of a handful of must-have $100m projects in a resurgent marketplace.
-
NewsPirates 4 becomes Disney’s biggest international release
The fourth entry in the adventure series has overtaken Alice In Wonderland to stand at $695.5m and is now the fourth biggest overseas release in history.
-
NewsLoveFilm expands digital service in Germany with PlayStation 3 deal
Titles available include Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
-
News
Eros International announces $25m first week for Ready
Film is released worldwide by Eros in association with Waves Cinemas’ Ponty Chadha
-
News
French directors and distributors protest Harry Potter premiere
8,000 people expected for massive Deathly Hallows event screening on July 12
-
NewsSPWA picks up world rights to Detention
Apocalyptic fantasy-horror-sci-fi-teen-rom-com directed by Joseph Kahn
-
NewsMPCA, SPWA play Assassination Games with Van Damme
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions takes worldwide media rights to the hitman story, the latest Jean-Claude Van Damme collaboration with Brad Krevoy and ambitious Los Angeles-based MPCA.
-
News
eOne takes North American rights to The Family Tree
Hope Davis and Dermot Mulroney star in the offbeat comedy exploring the frailties of the modern American family.
-
NewsCinema Guild takes US rights to Once Upon A Time In Anatolia
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Turkish Cannes competition entry shared the Grand Prix and follows a motley crew of men who search for a missing body in the Anatolian steppes.
-
NewsTrinity acquires This Must Be The Place for UK
UK indie scoops rights to Sorrentino crime-drama from Pathe
-
NewsLionsgate UK acquires Big Wedding, Paperboy and Chainsaw 3D
Lionsgate UK continues its fruitful relationship with Nu Image, picking up trio from LA outfit
-
NewsWeinsteins take US rights to Madonna's W.E.
The Weinstein Company (TWC) has picked up Madonna’s drama, one of two acquisitions it made in the dying days of Cannes along with a competition title that is expected to be announced this week.