All Distribution articles – Page 448
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NewsOctane fired up for Haunted 2
A Haunted House 2 is scheduled to kick off production on Monday [26] through IM Global’s Octane genre division. Open Road will distribute in the US on Mar 2014.
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NewsPicture Tree takes two Toronto titles
Berlin-based sales agent Picture Tree International (PTI) has picked up two Toronto titles – Mary Queen Of Scots and Metalhead – for international distribution.
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NewsUnitel Classica boards Noye's Fludde
EXCLUSIVE: Unitel Group’s Unitel Classica label has boarded world sales for Unogumbe-Noye’s Fludde.
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NewsDrafthouse to play in Hell
EXCLUSIVE: Drafthouse Films has picked up North American rights to Japanese director Sion Sono’s Why Don’t You Play In Hell? ahead of its Venice world premiere.
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NewsSundance Selects gets Bastards
The distributor has acquired US rights from Wild Bunch to Claire Denis’ Un Certain Regard premiere and has set an Oct 25 release. Separately, FilmBuff and Abramorama are teaming up on Broadway Idiot while The Cinema Guild has picked up Agnes Varda’s five-part autobiographical documentary series.
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NewsEpic sets Vikingdom debut
UPDATED AUG 29: Epic Pictures Releasing has set Oct 4 for the release of Yusry A Halim’s action adventure, which will screen in 3D in select theatres.
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Clear Blue Sky to get nationwide roll-out
Screenvision has announced that, along with distributor Area 23a and Asphalt Films, it will release Out Of The Clear Blue Sky as a national one-night theatrical event on Sept 11.
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NewsFortissimo picks up Altarejos' Unfriend
EXCLUSIVE: Fortissimo picks up international rights to Unfriend from Filipino ‘new wave’ auteur Joselito Altarejos
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NewsFSC adds two for TIFF
EXCLUSIVE: The Film Sales Company head Andrew Herwitz will introduce buyers in Toronto in September to the New Zealand mystery-thriller White Lies and documentary When Jews Were Funny.
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NewsSPC plots Blue Jasmine expansion
Sony Pictures Classics announced that it will expand Woody Allen’s box office hit Blue Jasmine this weekend from 229 screens to more than 1,200, making the awards contender Allen’s widest ever release.
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NewsMundial finds Wolf At The Door
The joint sales venture between IM Global and Mexico’s Canana has acquired international rights from Gullane and TC Filmes to the Brazilian thriller ahead of its Toronto world premiere.
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NewsBlue Is The Warmest Colour gets NC-17 rating in US
Sundance Selects to release Abdellatif Kechiche’s 2013 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner with adult rating.
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NewsScreen Awards shortlist led by Fox, Universal, Lionsgate
UPDATED: 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures and Lionsgate UK lead the distributors with 12 shortlist mentions each; Star Trek Into Darkness leads individual film nominees with six nods.
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NewsShout! Factory, Herzog team up
Shout! Factory and Werner Herzog Film have signed an exclusive multi-platform distribution partnership involving 16 remastered titles from the Herzog library. Separately, Pantelion has picked up Hours and O-Scope has acquired The Kill Team.
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Cineart's Eliane Dubois dies aged 65
Leading figures in the European film industry have paid tribute to Eliane Dubois, the pioneering founder of Benelux distributor Cineart, who died today [Aug 20] following a long illness. She was 65.
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NewsMagnolia takes Alan Partridge
The distributor has set an early 2014 release for the UK comedy smash following a North American rights deal with StudioCanal.
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NewsAsia Releasing, Galaxy strike deal
The Los Angeles-based distributor has signed an agreement with Vietnam’s Galaxy Studio to handle the latter’s product in North America, Australia and diaspora markets.
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NewsNetflix, TWC strike deal
The companies have signed a multi-year licensing agreement that starts in 2016 and will turn Netflix into the exclusive US subscription service for The Weinstein Company’s first-run films.
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NewsBuyers eye Toronto avalanche
EXCLUSIVE / UPDATED AUG 20: The annual stampede for Toronto acquisition titles is expected to return next month as programmers line up at least a dozen must-see premieres in the first weekend.
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NewsStrand enters Leather Bar
Strand Releasing has acquired North American, Latin American and Scandinavian rights to James Franco and Travis Matthews’ erotic drama Interior. Leather Bar.








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