All Distribution articles – Page 624
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FeaturesChinese film libraries set for digital reboot
The shifting distribution models that have changed the library business globally may lead to a slightly more hopeful picture for the Chinese-speaking world.
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EMI/Virgin to release Swedish House Mafia film
EMI and Virgin Records will release Christian Larson’s Take One on DVD and download on Nov 29.
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IMAX signs three-theatre deal with Karo Film Management
Russian exhibitor Karo Film Management has agreed a deal for up to three digital IMAX theatre systems in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
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Well Go USA, Variance Films partner on Asian action trio
Well Go USA and Variance Films are expanding their partnership by releasing three top Asian action films in theatres in their original, uncut and un-dubbed versions.
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LoveFilm, Momentum plan cross-platform release for Frozen
Adam Green’s thriller Frozen is to get a two-week release via LoveFilm’s online and rental service prior to its retail release.
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CommentThe Foreign Film Conundrum
Foreign language films made with a mainstream wide-audience sensibility often fall through the cracks when being sold overseas. So why the snobbery?
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Lorber Films falls for Muntean's Tuesday, After Christmas
Lorber Films has acquired all US rights to Radu Muntean’s Romanian adultery drama Tuesday, After Christmas (Marti, Dupa Craciun).
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Magnet closes US deal on Miike's 13 Assassins
Magnolia Pictures’ genre label Magnet has acquired US rights to Takashi Miike’s samurai tale 13 Assassins on the back of recent premieres in Venice and Toronto.
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Anchor Bay to release unrated I Spit On Your Grave remake
Anchor Bay Films has elected to release an unrated version of Steven R Monroe’s new take on Meir Zarchi’s horror classic I Spit On Your Grave.
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NewsCMG seals multi-territory deal with Universal on Blood Out
Edward Noeltner’s Beverly Hills-based sales company Cinema Management Group (CMG) has returned from a successful Toronto led by sales on the upcoming action thriller Blood Out.
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NewsNational Geographic takes US rights to The First Grader
National Geographic Entertainment (NGE) has acquired US theatrical rights to Justin Chadwick’s The First Grader following its recent world premiere in Toronto.
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NewsSoda Pictures takes Norwegian Wood
The UK distributor has also confirmed a number of other recent acquisitions.
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NewsEvil stays top overseas with $39m weekend haul
Resident Evil: Afterlife has become the biggest film in the horror franchise overseas as it plundered a further $38.7m to boost the tally to $103.2m
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NewsAffleck's The Town opens top in North America on $24m
Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures’ crime drama The Town directed by and starring Ben Affleck opened top on an estimated $23.8m.
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NewsBeginners leads final rush of deals at Toronto
As a remarkably productive Toronto wound down [19] Focus Features closed a deal for worldwide rights excluding several territories to Mike Mills’ drama Beginners.
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IFCO bans DVD re-release of I Spit On Your Grave
The Irish Film Classification Office (IFCO) has banned the DVD re-release of controversial 1978 horror I Spit On Your Grave.The IFCO refused to grant a supply certificate to the film on the grounds that it “depicts acts of gross violence and cruelty towards humans”, and contravenes of Ireland’s Video Recordings ...
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Peep World, Everything Must Go among flurry of late Toronto deals
IFC Films, Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions were in action as the festival approached the finale and deals continued to spill from Toronto.
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Anchor Bay takes English-speaking territories on Horrible Way To Die
Anchor Bay Films has closed yet another deal in Toronto, concluding talks with Celluloid Nightmares for English-speaking rights to A Horrible Way To Die.
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O-Scope acquires North American rights to Meek's Cutoff
Oscilloscope Laboratories has jumped into the Toronto feeding frenzy, taking North American rights to Kelly Reichardt’s Western drama Meek’s Cutoff.
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NewsEvil expected to extend overseas reign for Sony
Resident Evil: Afterlife should hold on to the box office crown this weekend and has raced to more than $41.7m through Sony Pictures releasing International’s Salt (SPRI).