All Distribution articles – Page 445
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NewsStarred Up sets UK release date
Fox Searchlight to release BIFA nominee, starring Jack O’Connell and Homeland’s Rupert Friend.
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NewsGerman distribs close AFM deals
EXCLUSIVE: New films by David Cronenberg, Quentin Dupieux and Lone Scherfig are among the titles acquired by German distributors at this year’s AFM.
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NewsRai Trade seals AFM, Rome deals
EXCLUSIVE: Titles include The Mercury Factor, Neverlake, L’Intrepido and Song e’ Napule.
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NewsFrontera, Watermark find homes
Magnolia Pictures has acquired US rights to the crime drama Frontera, while eOne Films US has picked up the documentary Watermark.
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NewsTraverse to release Treachery
Traverse Media has acquired North American digital rights to the Blanc/Biehn Productions thriller starring Michael Biehn.
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NewsKenyan films go on UK tour
Bristol’s Watershed is teaming up with Afrika Eye to present two new Kenyan films in UK cinemas through March 2014.
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NewsJust Friends? gets Korean court approval
The Supreme Court of Korea yesterday (Nov 14) overturned a teenager restricted rating given to Kim Jho Gwang-soo’s gay romance Just Friends? by the Korea Media Ratings Board (KMRB).
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NewsPartners to release Anonymous
Screen Media Films and Starz Digital Media have partnered on North American rights to Ellie Kanner’s comedy Authors Anonymous starring Kaley Cuoco, Chris Klein, Dennis Farina, Jonathan Bennett, Dylan Walsh, and Teri Polo.
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NewsDigital distribution debated in Rome
Execs from Curzon and Magnolia Pictures discussed digital models at the Rome Film Festival.
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NewsHollywood Classics signs Halas and Batchelor
EXCLUSIVE: Deal with former UK animation studio includes 1954 classic Animal Farm.
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NewsDavid Tennant’s Richard II scores at UK box office
More than 80,000 admissions, £1m for first ‘live from Stratford-Upon-Avon’ screenings.
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NewsSoda finds Vivian Maier
EXCLUSIVE: UK distributor inks deal for Toronto doc about US photographer; HanWay select confirms more deals.
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NewsPhilomena earns PG-13 rating
The Weinstein Company’s (TWC) latest ratings battle has resulted in a victory after the MPAA overturned Philomena’s R classification.
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NewsFactory 25 takes All The Light
Factory 25 has acquired US rights to director Joe Swanberg’s All the Light in the Sky.
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NewsNight sells for XYZ Films
XYZ Films has closed a raft of deals at AFM on The Night Comes For Us, its Indonesian and English-language action-thriller collaboration with Gareth Evans’ PT Merantau Films.
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NewsTrustNordisk closes deals on Ragnarok
Family adventure sells to China, Indonesia, Spain, Brazil and Thailand.
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NewsFifty Shades moves to 2015
Highly anticipated adaptation moves to Feb 13, 2015 from Aug 2014 release.
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NewsVision finds Comedy Warriors
Vision Films has acquired worldwide sales rights and to Comedy Warriors: Healing Through Humor and will distribute directly in the US and Canada.
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NewsSummit takes Hercules for US
Summit Entertainment has picked up Millennium Films’ Hercules: The Legend Begins starring Kellan Lutz.
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NewsLionsgate gets Angriest Man
The distributor has swooped on North American rights to The Angriest Man In Brooklyn. Cargo Entertainment handles international sales. Separately, Film Movement has taken For A Woman.