EXCLUSIVE: Sam Smith doc, Bryan Greenberg comedy-drama among pick-ups for LA-based outfit.

A Year and Change

LA-based distributor Vision Films has bolstered its line-up with a trio of acquisitions.

Comedy-drama A Year And Change stars Bryan Greenberg (Friends with Benefits) as a man who decides to make some wholesale changes in his life after an accident at a New Year’s Eve party. Co-stars include T.R. Knight (Grey’s Anatomy), Jamie Chung (Big Hero 6), Claire van der Boom (Hawaii Five-O), Marshall Allman (True Blood) and Jamie Hector (Halo: Reach).

Rom-com A Date with Miss Fortune stars Ryan Scott as a man whose luck changes after meeting a beautiful Portuguese woman, played by Jeannette Sousa. Canada’s John L’Ecuyer directs.

Music documentary biopic Sam Smith: Dreams Come True - which includes performances of the musician’s most popular songs – will get a multi-continent release in partnership with distributor Odeon Entertainment Group in the UK.

It was revealed this week that Smith will sing the opening song to the new James Bond movie, Spectre.

Vision Films recently partnered with Content Media to simultaneously launch documentary William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge and UK thriller Containment in North America and UK-Ireland, a strategy on which the company is looking to build.