The Cinema Guild has acquired US rights from Urban Distribution International to Tsai Ming Liang’s Venice grand jury prize-winner Stray Dogs

The film about a homeless man in Taipei who takes his children on a sailing trip will open theatrically in 2014, followed by ancillary roll-out.

  • The Weinstein Company has acquired feature rights to writer Paul Trough’s New York Times Magazine sea rescue articleA Speck At Sea and will produce with Jason Blum and Moneyball’s Rachel Horovitz.
  • D Films has taken exclusive, long-term Canadian rights in all media from Voltage Pictures to Fred Schepisi’s romance Words And Pictures starring Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche.
  • Variance Films is partnering with Carl Deal and Tia Lessin to release Citizen Koch, a documentary about the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling and billionaire industrialists David and Charles Koch’s support of the Tea Party. The film will arrive in theatres across the US and Canada in spring.

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